| 摘要 |
This control method is for a travel control device 100 which is provided with a first detector 110 for detecting obstacles around the local vehicle traveling in a first lane and a second detector 110 for detecting a second lane adjacent to the first lane, and which, in a lane change target position in the second lane, configures a first range of a size no less than that occupied by the local vehicle on the road surface, detects, as a second area, an area in the second lane which is located to the side of the local vehicle and in which no obstacles are present, and permits the local vehicle to change lanes if the second area includes the first area; this control method involves a step in which if, after initiating a lane change, the second area has become smaller than prior to initiating the lane change, then, on the basis of the positional relation in the width direction between the local vehicle and the lane markings crossed by the local vehicle during the lane change, at least one of the following is determined: a method of presenting the driver of the local vehicle with information when stopping or continuing the lane change; control content after stopping or continuing the lane change; and the travel position of the local vehicle in the width direction. |
