Patent ID: 11912275
Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An autonomous driving control method for stopping a host vehicle such that an inter-vehicle distance to a preceding vehicle is a predetermined at-stopping inter-vehicle distance, the method comprising at least one of:
executing first stop control of setting an at-stopping inter-vehicle distance to a first at-stopping inter-vehicle distance shorter than a predetermined basic at-stopping inter-vehicle distance when a stop position of the host vehicle is within a forward stop limit area set in front of a crossing lane; or
executing second stop control of setting the at-stopping inter-vehicle distance to a second at-stopping inter-vehicle distance longer than the predetermined basic at-stopping inter-vehicle distance when the stop position of the host vehicle is within a rearward stop limit area set behind the crossing lane,
wherein the at-stopping inter-vehicle distance is set to the predetermined basic at-stopping inter-vehicle distance and the host vehicle is stopped,
wherein whether the stop position of the host vehicle is within the forward stop limit area or within the rearward stop limit area, or within neither the forward stop limit area nor the rearward stop limit area is determined,
wherein when it is determined that the stop position of the host vehicle is within the forward stop limit area, the first stop control is executed,
wherein when it is determined that the stop position of the host vehicle is not within the rearward stop limit area, the second stop control is executed, and
wherein when it is determined that the stop position of the host vehicle is within neither the forward stop limit area nor the rearward stop limit area, basic stop control of maintaining the predetermined basic at-stopping inter-vehicle distance is executed.