Patent ID: 9552733
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: B60W,B62D,G08G

Claim:
1. A movable body with a course evaluation apparatus comprising: an automatically operated host vehicle that travels on a road; the host vehicle having a computer having a CPU, ROM, RAM and a computer program; the computer program having an estimated-course-group generation portion that estimates a plurality of courses for the host vehicle; and the computer program also having a course evaluation portion that performs a course evaluation on the plurality of courses for the host vehicle, wherein the course evaluation portion classifies similar courses among the plurality of courses into one group and generates a plurality of groups with similar courses, and the course evaluation portion calculates at least two evaluation values for the host vehicle per each group based on corresponding two evaluation criteria, wherein the estimated-course-group generation portion generates a plurality of close courses that extend from the host vehicle, and generates at least one subsequent course that extends from each of the plurality of close courses, and the estimated-course-group generation portion generates the estimated course groups in a manner such that each of that estimated course groups includes a corresponding one of the close courses, and the at least one subsequent course that extends from the corresponding one of the close courses.