US 11,807,223 B2
Automated drive device and automated drive method
Nobukazu Ueki, Shizuoka-ken (JP); Daichi Hotta, Tokyo (JP); and Sadayuki Abe, Shizuoka-ken (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/502,581.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-212795 (JP), filed on Dec. 22, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0194362 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 30/06 (2006.01)
CPC B60W 30/06 (2013.01) [B60W 2300/10 (2013.01); B60W 2540/043 (2020.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An automated drive device that automatically drives a vehicle along a travel lane, enters the vehicle into a bus bay from the travel lane and stops the vehicle in a pick-up and drop-off area in which a passenger gets on and off the vehicle, the automated drive device comprising:
at least one processor configured to:
acquire a type of the passenger before the vehicle reaches the pick-up and drop-off area,
when the type of the passenger is a vulnerable pedestrian, control the vehicle to enter into the bus bay from the travel lane when the vehicle is a first distance from the pick-up and drop-off area, and
when the type of the passenger is not a vulnerable pedestrian, control the vehicle to enter into the bus bay from the travel lane when the vehicle is a second distance from the pick-up and drop-off area, the first distance is greater than the second distance, and
at least one memory that stores a program and information to be read by the at least one processor.