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Vehicular control system for detecting road situations of a planned route

  • US 6,014,605 A
  • Filed: 03/31/1997
  • Issued: 01/11/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A vehicular control system for detecting the road situations of a plan route to be followed by the vehicle and for executing controls including the control of an automatic transmission, mounted on the vehicle, on the basis of the road situations, comprising:

  • obstructing factor detecting means for detecting the presence of factors for obstructing the run of the vehicle on said plan route; and

    obstruction notifying means for notifying, every time that the presence of said factors is detected by said obstructing factor detecting means, a driver of the vehicle of the presence of said obstructing factors by controlling a drive state of said automatic transmission, to establish a change of vehicle behavior.

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