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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2020
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takayasu Kumano, Wako, JP;
Yuji Yasui, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An estimation unit, if an acquisition unit acquires, as information outside a vehicle, information of a following other vehicle that is a vehicle traveling on a lane different from a traveling lane of the vehicle and is traveling behind the vehicle and information of a preceding other vehicle that is traveling ahead the vehicle and the following other vehicle, estimates, based on a behavior of the following other vehicle to the preceding other vehicle and a behavior of the following other vehicle to the vehicle, whether the behavior of the following other vehicle allows a lane change of the vehicle to enter between the preceding other vehicle and the following other vehicle.