Patent ID: 11945436
Assignee: NISSAN MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A driving assist method that includes a vehicle speed/headway control function that performs a vehicle speed control based on a set vehicle speed and a lane-keeping function that assists a host vehicle to remain within a lane during travel as driving assist functions to assist driving operations by a driver, the driving assist method comprising:
assessing whether or not a traveling condition that an actual vehicle speed of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling has been met during lane-keeping travel in a hands-off mode that allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel as a lane-keeping assist mode; and
switching the mode from the hands-off mode to a hands-on mode that has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel upon assessing that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed exceeds the speed limit has been met.