US 12,269,465 B2
Vehicle control apparatus
Yusuke Tanaka, Toyota (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Toyota (JP)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/881,814.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-133383 (JP), filed on Aug. 18, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0059815 A1, Feb. 23, 2023
Int. Cl. B60W 30/08 (2012.01); B60Q 1/52 (2006.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01)
CPC B60W 30/08 (2013.01) [B60Q 1/52 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 2540/26 (2013.01); B60W 2720/106 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control apparatus comprising:
a memory storing one or more instructions;
a processor operatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory,
wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the vehicle control apparatus to:
start driving trouble tackling control that is configured to (i) decelerate and stop a vehicle based on determining that a driver of the vehicle is in a driving trouble state where the driver has trouble driving the vehicle, (ii) start a deceleration process that is configured to decelerate the vehicle at a first predetermined timing as a first process of the driving trouble tackling control, and (iii) start a hazard lighting process that is configured to turn on one or more hazard lights at a second predetermined timing as a second process of the driving trouble tackling control,
stop the driving trouble tackling control based on determining that a hazard switch that is operated to request start and stop of the hazard lighting is operated during performance of the hazard lighting process as the second pr cess of the driving trouble tackling control, and
after execution of the driving trouble tackling control has started, turn on the one or more hazard lights without stopping the driving trouble tackling control based on determining that the hazard switch is operated between a timing in which it is determined that the driver is in the driving trouble state and the second predetermined timing in which the hazard lighting process is performed as the second process of the driving trouble tackling control.
 
2. The vehicle control apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the one or more instructions, when executed by the processor, further cause the vehicle control apparatus to: after starting turning on the one or more hazard lights by operating the hazard switch between the timing in which it is determined that (i) the driver is in the driving trouble state and (ii) the second predetermined timing in which the hazard lighting process is performed as the second process of the driving trouble tackling control, stop the driving trouble tackling control based on determining that the hazard switch is operated.