US 12,459,513 B2
Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium
Satoshi Sadamura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Feb. 29, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/590,989.
Claims priority of application No. 2023-055499 (JP), filed on Mar. 30, 2023.
Prior Publication US 2024/0326813 A1, Oct. 3, 2024
Int. Cl. B60W 30/18 (2012.01); B60W 30/14 (2006.01); B60W 50/00 (2006.01); B60W 50/10 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60W 30/18145 (2013.01) [B60W 30/143 (2013.01); B60W 50/0097 (2013.01); B60W 50/10 (2013.01); B60W 60/001 (2020.02); B60W 2552/30 (2020.02)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a storage medium storing computer-readable instructions; and
one or more processors connected to the storage medium, the processor executing the computer-readable instructions to:
acquire curved road information about a curved road located in a travel direction of a vehicle;
while the vehicle is traveling in a segment from an entrance to the curved road to a position a predetermined distance before the entrance or while the vehicle is traveling on the curved road,
perform assistance control which is one or both of deceleration control for decelerating the vehicle so that a speed of the vehicle approaches a target speed based on the curved road information and notification control for notifying that the speed of the vehicle approaches the target speed and stop the assistance control when a driver has performed an operation of stopping the assistance control during the assistance control; and
control an assistance control operation for a second curved road on the basis of a first target segment in which the assistance control for a first curved road is executed, a second target segment in which the assistance control for a second curved road is executed, and a position of the vehicle when an operation of stopping the assistance control has been performed during the assistance control in a case where the vehicle is scheduled to travel on the first curved road and the second curved road located within a predetermined distance from the first curved road.