VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• Main Authors: Tamura, Sho, Inoue, Daichi
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 28.09.2023
• Subjects: CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE ORDIFFERENT FUNCTION; CONTROL SYSTEMS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR HYBRID VEHICLES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; ROAD VEHICLE DRIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS FOR PURPOSES NOT RELATED TOTHE CONTROL OF A PARTICULAR SUB-UNIT; TRANSPORTING; VEHICLES IN GENERAL

A vehicle control device is configured to acquire a camera image obtained by capturing an image, control steering and acceleration or deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the camera image and map information, decide a driving mode of the vehicle as any one of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode and a second driving mode, change the driving mode of the vehicle to a driving mode with a heavier task when a task related to the decided driving mode is not executed by the driver, determine whether there is a deviation between a road division line shown in the camera image and a road division line shown in the map information, determine whether a preceding vehicle is present in front of the vehicle when it is determined that there is a deviation.