Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
EMERGENCY VEHICLE AVOIDANCE CONTROL APPARATUS AND EMERGENCY VEHICLE AVOIDANCE CONTROL METHOD

Abstract:

A vehicle control apparatus includes an emergency vehicle position acquiring section that acquires position information of an emergency vehicle; a road structure acquiring section that acquires a structure of a user's own vehicle travel road on which a vehicle is traveling; and an avoidance control section that performs avoidance control causing the vehicle to get out of the way, if the position information of the emergency vehicle has been acquired. In a case where the emergency vehicle is an oncoming vehicle and the road has a median strip, the avoidance control section suppresses the avoidance control when there is no opening in the median strip between the vehicle and the emergency vehicle.