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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 09, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takuya Watabe, Hachioji, JP;
Tetsuya Kanata, Susono, JP;
Yozo Iwami, Susono, JP;
Daisaku Honda, Nagoya, JP;
Yuhei Katsumata, Fuji, JP;
Hideki Fukudome, Toyota, JP;
Yuta Maniwa, Susono, JP;
Naoko Ichikawa, Shibuya-ku Tokyo-to, JP;
Saki Narita, Toyota, JP;
Yuki Nishikawa, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
An open vehicle includes a vehicle upper portion, a traveling device, an external sensor, and an ECU. The vehicle upper portion has a riding surface that forms a bottom surface of the riding space and is configured for a plurality of users to ride on. The ECU is configured to control the traveling device to cause the open vehicle to automatically travel. The ECU is configured to execute: a specific person recognition process to use the external sensor to recognize a specific person existing in an outside space; and an automatic travel control process to control the traveling device such that, when the specific person exists within a predetermined distance range, the traveling device executes at least one of moving the open vehicle away from the specific person and increasing a vehicle speed as compared to when the specific person does not exist within the range.