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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2023
Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventor:
Takahiro Matsunaga, Mishima, JP;
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/165 (2020.01); B60W 40/02 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/165 (2013.01); B60W 40/02 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2050/146 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4046 (2020.02);
Abstract
The follow-up travel support device includes a processor configured to acquire information about surrounding vehicles around a host vehicle, select a preceding vehicle suitable as a follow-up target of the host vehicle based on the information about the surrounding vehicles, and propose to an occupant of the host vehicle a follow-up travel to the preceding vehicle by the host vehicle. The processor is configured to stop proposal of the follow-up travel when the follow-up travel is not started despite the proposal of the follow-up travel.