US 11,667,287 B2
Vehicle and control device of the same
Satoshi Koike, Wako (JP); Ryuichi Hata, Wako (JP); Naoyuki Kubo, Wako (JP); Takayuki Sakata, Wako (JP); Masayasu Yoshida, Wako (JP); Mitsuru Nonaka, Tokyo (JP); Seiichi Kato, Tokyo (JP); and Masanori Yoshihira, Wako (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 4, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/167,372.
Claims priority of application No. JP2020-042111 (JP), filed on Mar. 11, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0284152 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. B60W 30/17 (2020.01); B60W 30/16 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/17 (2013.01) [B60W 30/16 (2013.01); B60W 2554/404 (2020.02); B60W 2554/802 (2020.02); B60W 2556/65 (2020.02); B60W 2754/30 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A control device of a vehicle, the device comprising:
a memory for storing computer readable code; and
a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
control travelling of the vehicle such that the vehicle follows a preceding vehicle based on first information received from the preceding vehicle; and
determine, based on second information regarding a cargo space of the preceding vehicle, an inter-vehicle distance to the preceding vehicle when the vehicle and the preceding vehicle stop,
wherein, upon the preceding vehicle having stopped, the processor stops the vehicle such that a distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle becomes the inter-vehicle distance determined by the processor.