Patent ID: 9580074
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: B60W,G05D

Claim:
1. A vehicle travel control apparatus, comprising: a sensor that obtains preceding vehicle information representing a status of a first preceding vehicle; a communication apparatus that obtains preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information, which is generated in a second preceding vehicle, via communication with the second preceding vehicle; and a controller that generates a first target value related to a target acceleration/deceleration value of a host vehicle based on the preceding vehicle information and a second target value related to the target acceleration/deceleration value of the host vehicle based on the preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information, and controls acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle based on the generated first and second target values, wherein the controller corrects the preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information according to an index value to generate the second target value, the index value representing an identity between the first preceding vehicle related to the preceding vehicle information and the second preceding vehicle related to the preceding vehicle acceleration/deceleration information.