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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2000
Filed:
Jan. 05, 1998
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A vehicle control method for use in an automatic driving system which transmits drive support information stored in each of markers buried in a road at regular intervals, to a vehicle which passes the marker, in order to support driving of the vehicle, comprising the steps of storing, in the marker, positional information indicative of the position of the marker, and at least one of road information indicative of the state of the road and control information concerning the speed and traveling direction of the vehicle, and transmitting, to the vehicle, the positional information and the at least one of the road information and the control information, which are used as the driving support information.
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