VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY RECORDING MEDIUM

• Main Authors: AKAHANE, Satoru, KOKUBO, Shimpei, KOMORI, Terumoto
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 03.10.2024
• 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 includes a processor which acquires nearby vehicle information and surrounding road environment information of a host vehicle and performs blind spot avoidance control for making the host vehicle avoid traveling in a blind spot of a nearby vehicle based on the nearby vehicle information. The processor performs at least one of suppression of the blind spot avoidance control while the host vehicle is traveling in passing lane or priority lane based on the surrounding road environment information and suppression of the blind spot avoidance control while the host vehicle is traveling in a merged section based on the surrounding road environment information.