VEHICLE DETERMINING A DRIVING ROUTE BASED ON PASS PRIORITY AND A METHOD FOR OPERATING THE VEHICLE

A vehicle includes a position recognition module that creates position information, a road information combining module configured to create first precise map information including a driving route of the vehicle, an object combining module that creates second precise map information including a driving route of a surrounding vehicle around the present vehicle, a lane link determination module that selects, from the second precise map information, a lane link at which a first lane and a second lane intersect or join each other, a target determination module configured to determine a target vehicle, a pass priority determination module that determines a pass priority at which each of the present vehicle and the target vehicle passes through the lane link, an object route creation module that creates a driving route of the target vehicle, and an adaptive route determination module that determines an adaptive driving route of the present vehicle.