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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2021
Applicant:

Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Sho Hitakatsu, Wako, JP;

Toshikazu Suwa, Tokyo, JP;

Masaki Nakajima, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/00 (2020.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 60/001 (2020.02); G01C 21/3605 (2013.01); G06V 20/56 (2022.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4049 (2020.02);
Abstract

A vehicle control device according to an embodiment includes: a recognizer that recognizes a situation around a vehicle; a determiner that determines events that define a traveling state of the vehicle based on the situation recognized by the recognizer, a route to a destination of the vehicle, and a position of the vehicle; and a driving controller that performs automated driving that controls at least one of acceleration/deceleration and steering of the vehicle based on the events determined by the determiner, wherein the driving controller changes the control level of the automated driving according to the number of events within a predetermined range in a traveling direction of the vehicle.


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