VEHICULAR GAP MAINTAINING ASSIST DEVICE AND VEHICULAR GAP MAINTAINING ASSIST METHOD

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a vehicular gap maintaining assist device and a vehicular gap maintaining assist method capable of reducing a sense of incongruity when operating an accelerator. PSOLUTION: If an accelerator pedal is operated when the vehicular gap to a preceding vehicle is shorter than the threshold of the vehicular gap, a control of applying the reaction force to the accelerator pedal is performed to promote a driver to release the accelerator pedal. In this condition, if the accelerator pedal is further stepped in, a control of reducing the reaction force applied to the accelerator pedal is performed. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT