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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2020
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Hideki Matsunaga, Wako, JP;
Tokitomo Ariyoshi, Wako, JP;
Umiaki Matsubara, Wako, JP;
Masamitsu Tsuchiya, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided herein is a vehicle control device that includes a recognition unit that recognizes a surrounding status of a vehicle and a driving control unit that controls a speed and/or a steering of the vehicle. The driving control unit performs switching to a second driving state in which a driver has a higher degree of a monitoring obligation than in a first driving state. The vehicle control device further includes a map updating unit that updates intrinsic map information on the basis of the recognition result and when switching from the first driving state to the second driving state is performed by the driving control unit.