Vehicle Control Method and Vehicle Control Device

Abstract: a vehicle control device operates to: obtain road information of a subject vehicle traffic lane in which the subject vehicle travels and road information of a branching traffic lane branching from the subject vehicle traffic lane when the branching traffic lane is present in a traveling direction of the subject vehicle; determine whether driver operation information indicating an intention of traveling in a planned traveling lane on the planned traveling route has been obtained or not, with the branching traffic lane as the planned traveling lane; determine whether a road structure requiring deceleration of the subject vehicle is present in the planned traveling lane; and perform a deceleration control of the subject vehicle based on the road information when determining that the driver operation information has been obtained and determining that the road structure requiring deceleration of the subject vehicle in the planned traveling lane is present.

Inventor(s): Shinya Saito, Yasuhisa Taira

CPC Classification: B60W30/18009 (Propelling the vehicle)

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