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Driving control device, driving control method and vehicle-to-vehicle communication system

  • US 10,486,701 B2
  • Filed: 03/10/2016
  • Issued: 11/26/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A driving control device for controlling driving of a vehicle, the driving control device comprising:

  • a sensor unit that detects a circumferential vehicle of an own-vehicle;

    a vehicle-mounted communication device that mutually transmits and receives information including an identification number and position information with a vehicle-mounted communication device mounted on the circumferential vehicle of the own-vehicle and maintains the information as a table;

    a travel determination unit that determines a travel control of the own-vehicle based on a detection result of the sensor unit and the table maintained by the vehicle-mounted communication device; and

    a travel control unit that controls traveling of the own-vehicle based on a result obtained by a determination made by the travel determination unit, wherein;

    when the own-vehicle changes a lane, the travel determination unit identifies a following traveling vehicle on a change destination lane based on a detection result of the sensor unit and selects an identification number of the following traveling vehicle from the table maintained by the vehicle-mounted communication device, and the vehicle-mounted communication device uses the identification number and transmits, to the following traveling vehicle, information on a lane change request by unicast.

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