Patent ID: 11938935
Assignee: SUBARU CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. A vehicle driving control apparatus to be applied to a vehicle, the vehicle driving control apparatus comprising:
a surrounding environment information obtaining device configured to obtain surrounding environment information on an environment around the vehicle;
a vehicle situation information obtaining device configured to obtain vehicle situation information on a situation of the vehicle;
an external information receiving device configured to receive at least roadmap information from an external device;
a velocity value setter configured to set a target velocity value of the vehicle to be used for performing driving control; and
a driving control unit configured to
adjust a velocity value of the vehicle by considering one or more surrounding vehicles around the vehicle, based on a plurality of items of information including the surrounding environment information obtained by the surrounding environment information obtaining device, the vehicle situation information obtained by the vehicle situation information obtaining device, and the roadmap information obtained by the external information receiving device, and
perform driving control based on the adjusted velocity value of the vehicle, wherein

in a case where:
a leading vehicle ahead of the vehicle is recognized;
the velocity value of the vehicle exceeds a speed limit value of a driving road of the vehicle or a predetermined velocity value, the predetermined velocity value being determined by adding or subtracting a certain value to or from the speed limit value;
a driver set velocity value set by a driver who drives the vehicle is higher than or equal to a velocity value of the leading vehicle; and
a following vehicle behind the vehicle has not been recognized for a predetermined time or longer,

the driving control unit is configured to set a temporary velocity value as the velocity value of the vehicle and to perform driving control by using the temporary velocity value, the temporary velocity value being lower than the velocity value of the leading vehicle by a preset value.