Patent ID: 9008940
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: B60W,G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control device, comprising: a sensor-information input section that receives information from a sensor which detects an obstacle; a terrain-information input section that receives terrain information of the position of a host vehicle from a map database; an obstacle determination process section that determines whether or not an obstacle is continuously detected until a given period of time elapses after the sensor detects the obstacle, and that determines that the obstacle is a preceding vehicle when the obstacle is continuously detected over the given period of time but that changes obstacle determination processing to determine that the obstacle is a preceding vehicle when the obstacle is not continuously detected over the given period of time in order to perform a terrain search process based on the terrain information of the position of the host vehicle received from the terrain-information input section, eliminate a need to always wait for the given period of time to elapse, and shorten a time to automatic deceleration.