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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2024
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota, JP;
Tomohiko Kaneko, Yokohama, JP;
Shun Maruyama, Numazu, JP;
Ryoma Hiraike, Toyota, JP;
Satoshi Omi, Ebina, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle system and vehicle control method enabling notifications to be made for smoothing traffic involving a host vehicle, that is, a vehicle system having a processor for judging a running state of a host vehicle, wherein in case of the processor judges that a second running state in which the host vehicle will change in behavior compared with a first running state in which the host vehicle or other vehicles present in the surroundings of the host vehicle are currently running will occur due to a predetermined reason, alerts the outside of the alert content including the predetermined reason.