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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2018
Applicant:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Hajime Miura, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/16 (2020.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/162 (2013.01); B60W 30/146 (2013.01); B60W 2520/105 (2013.01); B60W 2554/404 (2020.02);
Abstract
An acceleration rate is controlled so that a vehicle speed during autonomous driving is caused to approach a target vehicle speed. When a host vehicle has caught up with another vehicle traveling ahead of the host vehicle, the vehicle speed of the host vehicle is limited in accordance with a headway distance to the other vehicle. An acceleration rate is changed in accordance with a frequency with which the host vehicle catches up to a preceding vehicle, which is another vehicle immediately ahead of the host vehicle, and to another vehicle ahead of the preceding vehicle.