Patent ID: 9428189
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B60W

Claim Text:
1. A vehicle running control apparatus comprising: a following distance control unit maintaining a following distance between an own vehicle on which the vehicle running control apparatus is mounted and a preceding vehicle; an accelerating unit accelerating the own vehicle at a set acceleration so that a speed of the own vehicle reaches a set speed when the preceding vehicle is lost; and an acceleration suppressing unit configured to suppress acceleration of the own vehicle by the accelerating unit on condition that the preceding vehicle and the own vehicle are under an acceleration suppression condition when an allowance time to collision between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle is smaller than a predetermine lower limit at a moment of a loss of the preceding vehicle; wherein the allowance time is a time to collision between the own vehicle and the preceding vehicle after loss of the preceding vehicle using an assumption that acceleration of the own vehicle is not suppressed.