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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
May. 20, 2024
Applicant:
Denso Corporation, Kariya-city, JP;
Inventors:
Takuya Kume, Kariya-city, JP;
Kazuki Izumi, Kariya-city, JP;
Assignee:
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-city, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2020.01); B60W 30/08 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B60W 50/14 (2013.01); B60W 30/08 (2013.01); B60W 60/00133 (2020.02); B60W 2540/215 (2020.02); B60W 2552/10 (2020.02); B60W 2554/402 (2020.02);
Abstract
A vehicle control device that performs automatic driving without monitoring obligation is configured to: identity an obstacle which prevents the vehicle from traveling; identify, when the obstacle is identified, an avoidance measure which is a measure that allows the vehicle to avoid the obstacle; and permit, during the automatic driving without monitoring obligation, an avoidance based on a deviant measure on a basis of a fact that the avoidance measure is a deviant measure outside a scope of traffic regulations.