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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2022
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control device recognizes surrounding circumstances of a vehicle, controls steering and acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, determines any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode as a driving mode of the vehicle, changes the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode in which the task is heavier when a task associated with the determined driving mode is not executed by the driver, determines whether or not the map information includes an error and determines whether or not a road division line is included in the surrounding circumstances, and sets a longer traveling continuation distance in the second driving mode in a case where it is determined that the map information includes an error, the road division line is not included in the surrounding circumstances, and a preceding vehicle has been recognized.