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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2011
Shinji Igarashi, Susono, JP;
Shinji Igarashi, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota-Shi, JP;
Abstract
It is a task of the invention to provide an art that makes it possible to provide driving support suited for the feeling of a driver in a system that supports the avoidance of a collision of a vehicle. In order to achieve this task, according to the invention, in a system that supports the avoidance of a collision of a vehicle, a traveling range as a range of a route on which a host vehicle is to travel in a range of a driving operation to be normally performed by a driver is obtained, driving support is not provided if there is a route that allows a solid body to be avoided within the traveling range, and driving support is provided if there is no route that allows the solid body to be avoided within the traveling range.