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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2023
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Taizo Masuda, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyoto Sasaki, Susono, JP;
Daisuke Kakuma, Toyota, JP;
Hiroyoshi Masui, Susono, JP;
Akihiro Yamaguchi, Toyota, JP;
Sokfan Yee, Toyota, JP;
Yuki Nishikawa, Numazu, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle according to the present disclosure includes a first riding space and a second riding space, each of which is a riding position on one side and the other side of a right side and a left side with respect to a front-rear direction, respectively, and is configured to: acquire a traveling route; identify a side where a landscape viewed from the vehicle is good from among the right side and the left side with respect to a traveling direction; identify a preferential space in which a degree of preferential treatment of a passenger riding in the first riding space or the second riding space is high; and determine the forward direction and the backward direction when the vehicle travels on the traveling route such that the preferential space is set to the side where the landscape viewed from the vehicle is good.