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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2017
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Matsunaga, Wako, JP;
Takumi Machida, Tokyo, JP;
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a vehicle control device capable of suitably controlling the driving (autonomous driving or driving assistance) of a host vehicle when the host vehicle turns left from a side road into a main road (to merge into traffic). When the host vehicle is about to turn left into the main road, if the host vehicle recognizes that another vehicle is traveling along the main road behind the point [the intersection region of the side road and the main road] where the host vehicle enters the main road, then the host vehicle determines a risk that is associated with the other vehicle and that is dependent on the traveling position of the other vehicle, and determines whether or not to enter the main road, on the basis of the determined risk associated with the other vehicle.