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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2023
Subaru Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroto Kobayashi, Tokyo, JP;
SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A traveling control apparatus includes a computer device configured to perform control that causes a first vehicle to travel at a set constant vehicle speed or to travel following a second vehicle traveling in front of the first vehicle. The computer device is configured to set a third vehicle traveling on a merging lane merging with a traveling lane of the first vehicle and having an intention to enter a traveling lane of the first vehicle as a target to follow, and, when the third vehicle is set as the target to follow, perform a merge-to-follow process in which an inter-vehicular distance is allowable which is shorter than a target inter-vehicular distance set in the control that causes the first vehicle to travel following the second vehicle traveling on the traveling lane of the first vehicle.