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Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2023

Filed:

May. 15, 2019
Applicant:

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;

Inventor:

Shinya Saito, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B62D 6/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A travel control method for a vehicle is provided, which includes autonomous steering control for autonomously controlling the steering of the vehicle. The travel control method includes: setting a plurality of cancellation thresholds corresponding to respective travel scenes, the cancellation thresholds being used for canceling the autonomous steering control and transitioning to the driver's manual operation; detecting a travel scene of the vehicle during execution of the autonomous steering control; extracting a cancellation threshold corresponding to the detected travel scene from among the plurality of set cancellation thresholds; and determining, based on the extracted cancellation threshold, whether or not to cancel the autonomous steering control and transition to the driver's manual operation.


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