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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 03, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Suzuka Kondo, Nishitokyo, JP;
Eiki Kitagawa, Tokyo-to, JP;
Shota Fujii, Tokyo-to, JP;
Yu Okada, Ichikawa, JP;
Takuo Kaneko, Tokyo-to, JP;
Soichi Yoshino, Ichikawa, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A travel controller detects a vehicle traveling behind a host vehicle from situation data depending on the situation around the host vehicle; controls travel of the host vehicle to maintain a predetermined distance or more between the host vehicle and the detected vehicle behind; causes the host vehicle to perform a first action when the distance between the host vehicle and the vehicle behind is greater than a distance threshold; causes the host vehicle to perform a second action when the distance is less than the distance threshold, the second action contributing to safe travel of the host vehicle more than the first action; sets the distance threshold at a first value when a travel situation around the host vehicle does not satisfy a predetermined short-distance condition; and sets the distance threshold at a second value smaller than the first value when the travel situation satisfies the short-distance condition.