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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2018
Pioneer Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Shibasaki, Kawagoe, JP;
PIONEER CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a determination device capable of safely and reliably causing a vehicle on a side road to enter and merge into a main road when merging into the main road. Information is acquired that indicates the vehicle status of vehicles CA, etc., and vehicles Ca, etc., that are traveling on a side road SR that merges with a main road MR on which the vehicles CA, etc., are traveling. When, on the basis of said information, an intervehicular space is to be formed between the vehicles CA, etc., that will make it possible for a vehicle Ca, etc., to enter, the vehicles CA, etc., are caused to form an interval on the basis of the acceleration applied to each of the vehicles CA, etc., and the entering vehicle Ca, etc., is allowed to move to a position in the intervehicular space.