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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2022
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Takahiro Kawano, Tokyo-to, JP;
Ryuta Hashimoto, Tokyo-to, JP;
Takahiro Seta, Yokohama, JP;
Kota Harada, Tokyo-to, JP;
Yuki Mori, Tokyo-to, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control device has a processor configured to determine whether a first road exists where the vehicle is to exit from the traveling road, and when a first road exists, to set a lane change schedule zone based on a first connecting location, to determine whether a second road located on the same side of the traveling direction of the vehicle as the first road exists between the current location of the vehicle and the first connecting location, to change a start location of the lane change schedule zone based on a second connecting location, when a second road exists and the start location of the lane change schedule zone is at a second connecting location, or before the second connecting location, and to notify the driver of the plan to move the vehicle between lanes while the vehicle is traveling in the lane change schedule zone.