Patent ID: 9327727
Filing Date: 2016-05-03
CPC Classification: B60W

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle driving control apparatus for controlling an own vehicle to track a target vehicle, the target vehicle being a preceding vehicle which runs ahead of the own vehicle and is selected by the vehicle driving control apparatus to be tracked by the own vehicle, the vehicle driving control apparatus comprising: means for acquiring an actual relative speed of the target vehicle to the own vehicle; means for detecting occurrence of an event which causes the actual relative speed of the target vehicle to the own vehicle to discontinuously change; means for setting a target acceleration of the own vehicle based on the product of a relative speed gain and a tracking relative speed when the own vehicle tracks the target vehicle, the tracking relative speed being normally set to the actual relative speed of the target vehicle to the own vehicle; and means for correcting, upon detection of occurrence of the event by the detecting means, the tracking relative speed so as to gradually increase the absolute value of the tracking relative speed from a value that is less than the absolute value of the actual relative speed of the target vehicle to the own vehicle.