Patent ID: 9452760
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: B60T,B60W,B62D

Claim Text:
1. A drive control apparatus configured to execute a self-driving control based on traveling environment information that is information on traveling environment where a vehicle travels and traveling information of the vehicle, and comprising: a traveling environment information acquirer that acquires the traveling environment information; a traveling information detector that detects the traveling information; an environment information acquisition failure detector that detects an acquisition failure of the traveling environment information acquirer; a steering system failure detector that detects a failure of a steering system of the vehicle; and a brake controller that sets an evacuation course along which the vehicle is to travel safely within the traveling environment, based on the traveling environment information detected last time before the acquisition failure of the traveling environment information acquirer, in the case where an acquisition failure of the traveling environment information acquirer is detected and the failure of the steering system is detected, during the self-driving control, and executes a deceleration of the vehicle and a yaw brake control that applies a yaw moment to the vehicle based on the evacuation course.