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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 06, 2018
Applicant:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Atsushi Ito, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., Yokohama, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/182 (2020.01); B60W 40/105 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/18163 (2013.01); B60W 40/105 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4042 (2020.02); B60W 2554/80 (2020.02); B60W 2555/60 (2020.02);
Abstract
A vehicle control method includes: detecting, on a planned travel route of a host vehicle, a merging section in which a travel lane in which the host vehicle is traveling merges with another lane; determining whether or not to execute merging assistance control for assisting the host vehicle to change lanes into the other lane in the merging section; and when the merging assistance control is determined not to be executed in the merging section, controlling the speed of the host vehicle to be a predetermined speed or less before the host vehicle passes through a starting point of the merging section.