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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2023
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Masaaki Yamaoka, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A display control device has a depression acquisition part acquiring a current amount of accelerator depression; a suitable value calculation part calculating an amount of accelerator depression required for making a following distance between a preceding vehicle and an ego vehicle a predetermined target following distance, as a suitable depression amount, based on the following distance; and a display control part displaying the current amount of accelerator depression and the suitable depression amount at a display device able to be viewed by a driver. The display control part is configured so as not to change a display position of the display of the suitable depression amount, even if the following distance changes and thus the suitable depression amount changes.