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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2021
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Nozomu Hirosawa, Wako, JP;
Daichi Kato, Wako, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A device comprising: an acquisition unit that acquires surrounding information of a self-vehicle; and a control unit that controls traveling of the self-vehicle based on the surrounding information, wherein the control unit estimates whether a traveling speed of the self-vehicle will be equal to or less than a predetermined speed based on a relative speed between a traveling speed of the self-vehicle and a traveling speed of another vehicle traveling in a merging lane merging into a traveling lane in which the self-vehicle is traveling and based on a relative distance between the self-vehicle and the other vehicle, and when estimating that the traveling speed of the self-vehicle will be equal to or less than the predetermined speed, disables an automatic lane change operation of the self-vehicle to an adjacent lane adjacent to the traveling lane.