Patent 9884645 was granted and assigned to Honda on February, 2018 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
When an object detected by a lane marking/object detection section has been determined to be an object present in an adjacent lane change target lane or in the vicinity of the adjacent lane, lane change control is performed to reduce a predetermined maximum lateral acceleration Aymax′ or maximum lateral velocity Vymax′ according to the lane width Lob of the adjacent lane.