Patent attributes
An intersection start judgment device judges whether to start an own vehicle at an intersection at which vehicles in all directions need to temporarily stop. The device includes an autonomous sensor, a driving environment recognizer, a locator, and a controller. The autonomous sensor is disposed on the own vehicle and configured to detect a driving environment in front of the own vehicle. The driving environment recognizer is configured to recognize, with the autonomous sensor, the driving environment of the own vehicle. The locator is configured to calculate a location of the own vehicle with map information and a global navigation satellite system; and a controller configured to give, in a case where the own vehicle stopped temporarily at the intersection, start permission to the own vehicle when the number, counted by the driving environment recognizer, of other vehicles that are already stopping at the intersection becomes zero by subtraction counting.
