Patent ID: 11897467
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 5:
6. The vehicle driving assist apparatus as set forth in claim 1, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
execute a process of detecting an own lane preceding vehicle which moves ahead of the own vehicle in the lane in which the own vehicle moves when the electronic control unit is executing the following moving control;
execute the following moving control to autonomously accelerate the own vehicle when (i) there is the next lane preceding vehicle, (ii) there is the own lane preceding vehicle, (iii) a distance between the own lane preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is longer than a predetermined own lane inter-vehicle distance, and (iv) the distance between the next lane preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is longer than the predetermined next lane inter-vehicle distance; and
execute the following moving control to autonomously decelerate the own vehicle when (i) there is the next lane preceding vehicle, (ii) there is the own lane preceding vehicle, and (iii) the distance between the own lane preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is shorter than the predetermined own lane inter-vehicle distance, or (iv) the distance between the next lane preceding vehicle and the own vehicle is shorter than the predetermined next lane inter-vehicle distance.