Patent ID: 11897464
Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 13:
14. The vehicle control method according to claim 1, further comprising:
when the traffic participant is recognized, wherein the traffic participant is in front of the vehicle and the traffic participant moves on the sidewalk adjacent to the roadway,
recognizing a presence or an absence of a region, wherein the region is a region in which the traffic participant is able to enter the roadway from the sidewalk that is in front of the participant,
recognizing a type of structure of a boundary between the sidewalk and roadway, in a case where there is the region, and
recognizing a presence or an absence of the another traffic participant in front of the traffic participant, in a case where the traffic participant is moving on the sidewalk, wherein the another traffic participant interfering with a moving of the traffic participant,

setting the risk index for the position at which the traffic participant will be present in the future based on a presence or an absence of another traffic participant and the type of structure,
setting a first risk index on the roadway side, in a case where the type of structure is a first type and the another traffic participant is present, and
setting a second risk index on the roadway side, in a case where the type of structure is the first type and the another traffic participant is not present,
wherein the first risk index is index that is a greater tendency for the traffic participant to enter the roadway compared with the second risk index.