Patent ID: 8700297
Filing Date: 2014-04-15
Classification: G08G

Abstract:
1. A vehicle group forming device which forms a vehicle group with a plurality of vehicles, the vehicle group forming device comprising: an ECU for determining whether or not a host vehicle conforms to the traveling condition of a priority lane, and when it is determined that the host vehicle conforms to the traveling condition of the priority lane, determining whether or not other vehicles in a periphery of the host vehicle conforms to the traveling condition of the priority lane and selecting as a vehicle forming a vehicle group a vehicle at a closest relative distance from the host vehicle or a vehicle having a highest parameter value based on the degree of conformity to the traveling condition and the relative distance from the host vehicle from among the other vehicles which conform to the condition, wherein the ECU determines the host vehicle or the other vehicles conform to the traveling condition of the priority lane when the host vehicle or the other vehicles are at least one of a vehicle with a predetermined number or more occupants, a low-fuel consumption vehicle and a low-environmental-load vehicle.