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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2023
Follow-up travel support device, follow-up travel support method and non transitory recording medium
Applicant:
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 50/14 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 30/143 (2013.01); B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 2520/10 (2013.01); B60W 2554/4041 (2020.02); B60W 2556/45 (2020.02); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01);
Abstract
The follow-up travel support device includes a processor configured to detect a surrounding vehicle around a host vehicle, and set a target vehicle speed of the host vehicle. The processor is configured to set the target vehicle speed to a speed different from a set speed of the host vehicle until a partner vehicle that performs a follow-up travel in which a following vehicle follows a preceding vehicle together with the host vehicle is detected as the surrounding vehicle.