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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2002
Filed:
May. 22, 2000
Hideki Hashimoto, Wako, JP;
Masami Ogura, Wako, JP;
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A processional travel control apparatus allows processional travel with a group of vehicles including a leading vehicle and a following vehicle automatically following the leading vehicle. An object vehicle includes a device for sending a request to separate from or join the processional travel, to the leading vehicle. The leading vehicle includes a device for permitting or rejecting the request from the object vehicle. When the leading vehicle permits the request, the object vehicle is switched by a mode switching device between automatic driving, in which the following vehicle automatically follows the leading vehicle, ans manual driving by a driver.