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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Nobuyuki Tomatsu, Toyota, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle system includes an auxiliary vehicle that includes an auxiliary sensor and an auxiliary actuator, and a vehicle that communicates with the auxiliary vehicle. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle sensor that acquires information of an external environment of the vehicle, an in-vehicle actuator used in traveling of the vehicle, a vehicle control device that controls driving of the in-vehicle actuator using an input from the in-vehicle sensor, and a communicator that communicates with the auxiliary vehicle. The vehicle control device implement, upon detecting an abnormality in the in-vehicle sensor, one of the first switching control that controls the driving of the in-vehicle actuator based on an input from the auxiliary sensor, and a second switching control that causes the vehicle to travel using the auxiliary actuator.