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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2015
Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota-shi, Aichi, JP;
Masaaki Yamaoka, Susono, JP;
TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a lane following control device in which an uncomfortable feeling of a driver can be suppressed. In a case where shift processing is performed on a first adjacent vehicle X, and when a distance between a second adjacent vehicle Xtravelling immediately front of the first adjacent vehicle Xand the first adjacent vehicle Xis equal to or less than a vehicle-to-vehicle distance threshold value and a lane width direction distance between the second adjacent vehicle Xand a travelling lane Rof the host vehicle V is equal to or less than a lane width direction threshold value, a target lateral position setting unitmaintains the shift processing on the first adjacent vehicle Xuntil the shift processing is performed on the second adjacent vehicle X