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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
May. 15, 2019
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Yohei Taniguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Abstract
A travel control method for a vehicle includes: presenting a vehicle traveling on a route to a preliminarily set destination with overtaking information as to whether to accept execution of an overtaking assist function for overtaking a preceding vehicle by changing lanes through autonomous travel control; and executing the overtaking assist function when an acceptance input of accepting the execution of the overtaking assist function is detected in response to presentation of the overtaking information. This method further includes: detecting a position of the vehicle on the route; and detecting whether or not there is a traveling direction change point on the route ahead of the position of the vehicle, a point at which the vehicle must change its traveling direction. When the distance from the vehicle to the traveling direction change point is shorter than a preliminarily set distance, the presentation of the overtaking information is not performed.