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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2023
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Makoto Katayama, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A driving support control apparatus acquires forward information regarding a state ahead of an own vehicle V, sets a preceding vehicle as a tracking target and executes tracking control of causing the own vehicle to automatically track this tracking target. While an offset preceding vehicle Vtraveling laterally ahead of the own vehicle and a front preceding vehicle Vtraveling ahead of the offset preceding vehicle Vand traveling at a closer position than the offset preceding vehicle Valong a vehicle width direction are recognized, the driving support control apparatus sets the offset preceding vehicle Vas the tracking target in a case where a distance between the two preceding vehicles Vand Vis greater than a predetermined distance threshold and sets the front preceding vehicle Vas the tracking target in a case where the distance between the preceding vehicles is less than the distance threshold.