{
  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "description": "The purpose of the present disclosure is to encourage travel based on appropriate driving assistance by lowering a driving assistance level when alerting a driver is necessary in a lane-keeping travel scenario with a raised driving assistance level. [0002] A vehicle speed/headway control function…",
  "path": "/patents/1412009",
  "publishedAt": "2023-09-13T00:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "at://did:plc:oql6ds5vnff4ugar6rruliwd/site.standard.publication/3mn3ohu7oxx5w",
  "tags": [
    "B60W30/12",
    "NISSAN MOTOR [JP]"
  ],
  "textContent": "The purpose of the present disclosure is to encourage travel based on appropriate driving assistance by lowering a driving assistance level when alerting a driver is necessary in a lane-keeping travel scenario with a raised driving assistance level. [0002] A vehicle speed/headway control function and a lane-keeping function are provided as driving assist functions to assist driving operations by a driver, and a mode-switching controller (47) is provided for switching between lane-keeping assist modes that assist a host vehicle to remain within a lane during travel. In the lane-keeping assist mode, it is assessed whether or not a traveling condition has been met that an actual vehicle speed VR of the host vehicle exceeds a speed limit VL(n) of a roadway on which the host vehicle is traveling during lane-keeping travel in which \"hands-off mode M1,\" which allows the driver to remove their hands from the steering wheel (23), has been selected. The mode is switched from \"hands-off mode M1\" to \"hands-on mode M2,\" which has as a condition that the driver has their hands on the steering wheel (23), if it is assessed that the traveling condition that the actual vehicle speed VR exceeds the speed limit VL(n) has been met.",
  "title": "DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE DEVICE"
}