US 12,145,500 B2
Automated driving enabled vehicle
Kentarou Yamasaki, Tokyo (JP); Makoto Kinoshita, Tokyo (JP); Keisuke Takayama, Tokyo (JP); and Yuta Muramatsu, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by SUBARU CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Aug. 5, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/985,909.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-175677 (JP), filed on Sep. 26, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0094585 A1, Apr. 1, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B60Q 1/50 (2006.01); B60Q 1/04 (2006.01); B60Q 1/34 (2006.01); B60Q 5/00 (2006.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01)
CPC B60Q 1/507 (2022.05) [B60Q 1/04 (2013.01); B60Q 1/34 (2013.01); B60Q 1/543 (2022.05); B60Q 5/005 (2013.01); B60W 30/0956 (2013.01); B60W 60/0053 (2020.02); B60W 2554/4029 (2020.02)] 7 Claims
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1. An automated driving enabled vehicle, comprising:
a travel controller configured to control travel of the vehicle while switching a travel control state between automated driving and manual driving;
an automated driving indicator lamp configured to be switched on perceptibly from outside the vehicle on an occasion of the automated driving; and
a lamp controller configured to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp to indicate that the travel control state is the automated driving, during execution of the automated driving in which the travel controller controls the travel of the vehicle by the automated driving,
wherein the lamp controller is configured to:
acquire, during the execution of the automated driving, information regarding a surrounding moving body present around the vehicle, and information regarding a lighting state of a headlight or a signaling light other than a brake light, a direction indicator, and a reverse light of the vehicle,
make a lighting control of the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, in response to presence of any surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving, and
in response to absence of any surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving,
switch off the automated driving indicator lamp during the execution of the automated driving, on a condition that the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving, with the headlight and the signaling light off, and
keep the automated driving indicator lamp on, on a condition that the vehicle is traveling by the automated driving, with the headlight or the signaling light, or both, on, and
wherein in response to detection of the surrounding moving body around the vehicle executing the automated driving, the lamp controller is configured to switch on the automated driving indicator lamp, with intensity according to i) a distance from the vehicle executing the automated driving to the surrounding moving body present around the vehicle, and ii) ambient illuminance around the vehicle executing the automated driving.