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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 05, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2017
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Renault S.a.s., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Takeshi Okuyama, Kanagawa, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Renault S.A.S., Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A driving assistance method includes: extracting a high difficulty point where autonomous driving is difficult on a planned travel route of a host vehicle; determining, at a point located at a predetermined distance or more before the high difficulty point, whether or not a following vehicle traveling on the same lane as a lane of the host vehicle is present within a predetermined range from the host vehicle; and guiding switching of a traveling state of the host vehicle from autonomous driving to manual driving when the following vehicle is present within the predetermined range from the host vehicle.