Patent ID: 8073575

Claim:
A vehicle, comprising: moving selecting means for selecting either one of leading moving serving as a leading vehicle in linkage moving where an own vehicle moves integrally in a linkage manner with another vehicle and following moving serving as a following vehicle in the linkage moving; running operation means for conducting running operation; moving information transmitting and receiving means for transmitting moving information based upon a moving demand according to the running operation to the following vehicle in the leading moving and receiving moving information transmitted from the leading vehicle in the following moving; driving means for driving the own vehicle based upon a moving demand according to the running operation in the leading moving and driving the own vehicle based upon the received moving information in the following moving; moving procedure storing means where a moving procedure where each vehicle moves at a changing time from a specific moving formation to another moving formation is stored, and moving formation changing means for performing determination about necessity of change from a moving formation in current moving to another moving formation to determine a moving formation after changed, wherein the moving formation transmitting and receiving means sequentially transmits arrangement relationships after changed to the respective following vehicles according to the moving procedure for performing change from a current moving formation to the determined moving formation after changed in the leading moving, and the driving means drives the own vehicle such that the own vehicle moves to satisfy the arrangement relationship after changed received from the leading vehicle in the following moving.