DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SELECTING PRECEDING VEHICLE

摘要

A device and a method for selecting a preceding vehicle, the device comprising a vehicle behavior measuring function for measuring the behavior of a vehicle to achieve the proper selection of the preceding vehicle by estimating the courses of the vehicle and a forward traveling vehicle even when the vehicle approaches a curved road, escapes from the curved road, and changes a lane, a vehicle course estimating function to estimate the course of the vehicle based on the behavior of the vehicle measured by the vehicle behavior measuring function, and a forward traveling vehicle position measuring function to measure the position of at least one forward traveling vehicle, wherein when the position of the vehicle after a specified time is estimated and, when an estimated distance between the positions of the vehicle and the forward traveling vehicle is shorter than a specified value, the forward traveling vehicle is selected as the preceding vehicle, characterized in that, when the forward traveling vehicle is selected as the preceding vehicle, the specified value of the distance can be increased more than that obtained when the preceding vehicle is not selected.