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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2023
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Daichi Kato, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surroundings situation of a host vehicle, and a driving controller that generates a target trajectory for the host vehicle on the basis of a recognition result of the recognizer, and control one or both of speed and steering of the host vehicle so that the host vehicle travels along the generated target trajectory, the recognizer searches for, in a branch section in which a main lane and a plurality of branch lanes are connected, a number-of-lanes increase start position satisfying a predetermined condition in a start point direction of the branch section from a maximum width position of the branch section, and the driving controller generates the target trajectory passing through the number-of-lanes increase start position and traveling in the branch lane.