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Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022

Filed:

Jan. 15, 2021
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kouhei Miyamoto, Tokyo, JP;

Jun Ochida, Wako, JP;

Seiji Watanabe, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 50/023 (2012.01); B60W 50/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/035 (2012.01); B60W 50/029 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/023 (2013.01); B60W 50/035 (2013.01); B60W 50/045 (2013.01); B60W 2050/0292 (2013.01); B60W 2556/10 (2020.02);
Abstract

A vehicle control apparatus comprises a first travel control unit and a second travel control unit that are configured to perform vehicle travel control by device control. The first travel control unit includes an instruction unit configured to instruct the second travel control unit to execute alternative control, a stop unit configured to stop the device control if execution of the alternative control was instructed by the instruction unit, a reception unit configured to receive information regarding an execution status of the alternative control from the second travel control unit, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the stopping of the device control by the stop unit is to be cancelled, based on the information regarding the execution status of the alternative control that was received by the reception unit.


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