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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 18, 2020
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Keisuke Oka, Wako, JP;

Takeru Goto, Wako, JP;

Shun Iwasaki, Wako, JP;

Masanori Takeda, Wako, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 40/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/04 (2013.01); B60W 60/00276 (2020.02); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02);
Abstract

A first possible space, for which a lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the preceding other vehicle and the nearby vehicle, a speed of the preceding other vehicle, and a speed of the nearby vehicle. A second possible space, for which the lane change of the vehicle is possible, is specified from an inter-vehicle distance between the nearby vehicle and the following other vehicle, the speed of the nearby vehicle, and a speed of the following other vehicle. The control unit controls the traveling of the vehicle to make the lane change to the adjacent lane based on a result of the evaluation of the first possible space and the second possible space.


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