Patent attributes
A method for joining a driving rank of a vehicle including receiving, by a joining requesting vehicle, information of vehicles in a cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) driving rank, transmitting, by the joining requesting vehicle, a joining request message to the vehicles in the CACC driving rank, and receiving, by the vehicles in the CACC driving rank, the joining request message, adjusting, by a rear vehicle and a front vehicle with respect to a position to which the joining requesting vehicle intends to move, among the vehicles in the CACC driving rank, a distance therebetween, determining, by the joining requesting vehicle, whether the joining requesting vehicle is allowed to join the vehicles in the CACC driving rank, and joining, by the joining requesting vehicle, the vehicles in the CACC driving rank and allowing the driving rank to be reconfigured.