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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takao Kashu, Tokyo-to, JP;
Yasutaka Teramae, Kawasaki, JP;
Hirotaka Kato, Aichi-ken, JP;
Ryo Masutani, Tokyo-to, JP;
Ichi Gi, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A travel controller detects a non-lane zone within a predetermined distance ahead of a current position of a vehicle. The non-lane zone lacks lanes. The travel controller controls travel of the vehicle in the non-lane zone so as to keep the position of the vehicle relative to the width of a whole road. When an expected position of the vehicle at the end of the non-lane zone straddles a lane line, the travel controller controls travel of the vehicle so as to move to a lane having a larger overlap with the vehicle, prior to control of travel of the vehicle to keep the position of the vehicle relative to the width of the whole road.