Patent ID: 11953899
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 18:
19. A control method for controlling autonomous running of a vehicle, the control method comprising:
by an in-vehicle computer of the vehicle,
transmitting data obtained by an autonomous sensor of the vehicle to a computer of a center;
detecting an obstacle in front of a course of the vehicle based on information obtained by the autonomous sensor;
stopping the vehicle based on detection of an obstacle and transmitting a first signal to the center, and
restarting running of the vehicle after a second signal for permitting to restart the running of the vehicle from the computer of the remote monitoring center is received, wherein

after receiving a third signal for indicating that the present location of the vehicle is in a predetermined place of which safety is confirmed by the center based on a previous confirmation result of safety at the predetermined place, the vehicle is not stopped and the first signal is not transmitted even when the obstacle detection part detects an obstacle.