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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 26, 2022
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2020
Denso Corporation, Kariya, JP;
Kiyotaka Taguchi, Kariya, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control device mounted to a vehicle and configured to control a traveling state of the vehicle is provided. The vehicle control device sets control contents for functions for automated driving of the vehicle, respectively, and to control the vehicle according to the control contents. The functions are each associated with one or more items of vehicle vicinity information in advance. The vehicle control device determines, for each of the functions, whether it is possible to recognize the associated one or more items of the vehicle vicinity information. The vehicle control device maintains the automated driving that uses a function associated with one or more items of the vehicle vicinity information recognized by the recognition determination unit, and switches over, into manual driving, the automated driving that uses a function associated with one or more items of the vehicle vicinity information not recognized by the recognition determination unit.