Patent ID: 8958929
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W,B62D,G05D,G08C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control apparatus which performs vehicle control of a vehicle through direct operations of the vehicle performed from inside of the vehicle and remote operations of the vehicle performed from a wireless terminal, the vehicle control apparatus comprising: a stop position setting device which sets a stop position of the vehicle by operation from inside of the vehicle; a vehicle course calculation device which calculates a course of the vehicle from a current position of the vehicle to the stop position, and calculates a traveling plan such that the vehicle travels along the course; and a control unit which performs traveling control of the vehicle through a remote operation from a wireless terminal on the basis of the course and the traveling plan when the stop position of the vehicle is set by the stop position setting device and the course and the traveling plan are calculated by the vehicle course calculation device, wherein, even if the stop position of the vehicle is set by the stop position setting device and the course and the traveling plan are calculated by the vehicle course calculation device, the control unit prioritizes driving operations from inside of the vehicle by canceling remote operations from the wireless terminal if movement conditions for moving the vehicle through the remote operations from the wireless terminal are not satisfied and the driving operations from inside of the vehicle are not performed.