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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 09, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2006
Steve Tengler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Ronald Heft, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Steve Tengler, Grosse Pointe Park, MI (US);
Ronald Heft, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Nissan North America, Inc., Franklin, TN (US);
Abstract
A vehicle on-board unit is configured to communicate with other vehicles to increase an accuracy of a lane centerline determination of a road that the vehicle is traveling. The vehicle on-board unit basically has a vehicle path history generating section, a two-way wireless communications section and a lane centerline determining section. The vehicle path history generating section generates a host vehicle path history data indicative of a travel path of the host vehicle. The two-way wireless communications section receives a preceding vehicle message that at least includes a preceding vehicle path history data indicative of a travel path of the preceding vehicle along a lane that the host vehicle is currently traveling. The lane centerline determining section determines a lane centerline of the lane that the host vehicle is currently traveling based on the host vehicle path history data and the preceding vehicle path history data.