Control device for lane keeping device, vehicle and lane keeping control method

摘要

A cruise control device, a vehicle and a cruise control method are provided which increase safety and at the same time enable a vehicle to be overtaken smoothly from the following journey. This cruise control device is equipped with a direction indicator determination unit that determines whether or not the direction indicator has been activated by the direction indicator of a vehicle, a cruise control unit that performs control to make the vehicle travel between the following trip in which the vehicle is caused to be a preceding one To follow the vehicle and the drive travel in which the vehicle is caused to travel so that the speed of the vehicle coincides with a target speed, and an inter-vehicle distance detection unit that detects the inter-vehicle distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle during the following travel. In cases in which it is determined during the following drive that the direction indicator has been activated and a first condition is met in which the inter-vehicle distance exceeds a predetermined distance, the cruise control device switches the driving of the vehicle from the following drive to the push drive.