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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
May. 10, 2024
Denso Corporation, Kariya-city, JP;
Takuya Kume, Kariya-city, JP;
Kazuki Izumi, Kariya-city, JP;
DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya-city, JP;
Abstract
A control unit performs switching control, in automatic driving of a vehicle, between a first automatic driving state of an automatic drivingX level 2 or lower with manual driving or surrounding monitoring obligation, and a second automatic driving state of an automatic driving level 4 or higher with no surrounding monitoring obligation and allowing sleep, depending on a road on which the vehicle travels. When the control unit determines that a driver is in an asleep state based on a detection result of a detection unit in the second automatic driving state, the control unit performs acceleration control to adjust second vehicle speed in the second automatic driving state to be higher than first vehicle speed in the first automatic driving state, equal to the first vehicle speed, or lower than the first vehicle speed and higher than the second vehicle speed in a current state.