Patent ID: 6861957

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling the traveling of a first vehicle according to traveling data of the first vehicle and traveling data of a second vehicle obtained through inter-vehicle communication, comprising: an evaluating section for evaluating a possibility of a collision between the vehicles based on said traveling data of the first and second vehicles; a collision probability calculating section for calculating the probability of the first vehicle colliding with the second vehicle and for calculating a spatiotemporal position at which a potential collision will occur based on positional data and existence probability data of the first and second vehicles, the collision probability being calculated based on a product of the existence probability of the first vehicle and the existence probability of the second vehicle; a priority determining section for determining a priority of the first vehicle and the second vehicle when there is a possibility of a collision; and a controlling section for executing an avoidance operation of the first vehicle based on said priority, at least the priority determining section being located within the first vehicle.