DRIVE ASSIST SYSTEM

• Main Authors: SAKANO TAISHO, IGUCHI HITOSHI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 08.06.2017
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; SIGNALLING; TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL; VEHICLES, VEHICLE FITTINGS, OR VEHICLE PARTS, NOT OTHERWISEPROVIDED FOR

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a drive assist system capable of prompting a driver to make safety confirmation even when executing a traffic lane change of a vehicle in an automatic mode.SOLUTION: The drive assist system includes: an operation determination section 103 that determines whether a driver has carried out a safety confirmation operation before changing the traffic lane based on a piece of DSM (driver status monitor) information which is used for detecting a state of the driver of a vehicle; and a permission part 106 that permits a traffic lane change part 108 to change the traffic lane in an automatic mode. When the operation determination section 103 determines that the driver has not made the safety confirmation operation before changing the traffic lane, the permission part 106 does not permit any automatic traffic lane change by the traffic lane change part 108.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】自動で車両の車線変更を行わせる場合であっても、ドライバによる安全確認の実施を促すことができる運転支援装置を提供する。【解決手段】車両のドライバの状態を検出するのに用いるＤＳＭの情報をもとに、ドライバが車線変更時における安全確認動作を実施したか否か判定する動作判定部１０３と、車線変更部１０８による自動での車線変更を許可する許可部１０６とを備え、許可部１０６は、動作判定部１０３でドライバが車線変更時における安全確認動作を実施していないと判定している場合には、車線変更部１０８による自動での車線変更を許可しない。【選択図】図２