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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2018
Applicant:
Toyota Motor Europe, Brussels, BE;
Inventor:
Christophe Gillet, Brussels, BE;
Assignee:
TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, Brussels, BE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 50/085 (2013.01); B60W 2420/52 (2013.01); B60W 2552/53 (2020.02); B60W 2554/404 (2020.02); B60W 2554/406 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02);
Abstract
An automated driving system and method of autonomously driving a vehicle. The system includes for a vehicle including at least one sensor device configured to detect the vehicle position and sense environment characteristics of the vehicle, an electronic control device configured to control autonomous driving of the vehicle based on an output of the sensor device, in which the controlling of autonomous driving includes an autonomous overtaking functionality for overtaking by changing the lane, and disable the autonomous overtaking functionality, in case at least one of a set of predetermined overtaking conditions is not satisfied.