IN-LANE TRAVELING SUPPORT DEVICE, AUTOMOBILE, AND IN-LANE TRAVELING SUPPORT METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To support in-lane traveling while preventing a driver from feeling uncomfortable.

SOLUTION: The steering of a steering wheel and the announcing operation through a steering input means to a steering operation by a driver are controlled under different conditions based on a vehicle location from a target traveling orbit so that the support of in-lane traveling can be achieved (step S103). In a normal time, not the announcing operation through the steering input means but only the steering of the steering wheel is performed so that a vehicle can travel on a target traveling orbit in a lane, and only when the degree of deviation from the target traveling obit is large, not only the steering operation but also the announcing operation is performed so that it is possible to provide support information for enabling the driver to travel in the lane. Thus, it is possible to achieve the matching of a steering operation with the support information, and to support in-lane traveling while preventing the driver from feeling uncomfortable.

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