Patent ID: 6678603
Filing Date: 2004-01-13
Classification: B60K,B60W

Abstract:
A cruise control apparatus for a vehicle, comprising:an acceleration controller configured to control acceleration of a first vehicle when a second vehicle that is within a target inter-vehicle distance and was traveling in a same traffic lane as the first vehicle is no longer in the same traffic lane as the first vehicle, wherein the acceleration controller accelerates the first vehicle at a first acceleration value during an initial stage of acceleration and at a second acceleration value during a subsequent stage of acceleration, the first acceleration value being larger than the second acceleration value, wherein the acceleration controller selects the first acceleration value and the second acceleration value from an acceleration calculation map, and wherein the acceleration calculation map includes a plurality of characteristic lines, each characteristic line including an initial stage acceleration value and at least one subsequent stage acceleration value, the first acceleration value and the second acceleration value being selected along the same characteristic line of the plurality of characteristic lines.