US 11,807,244 B2
Vehicle control device, non-transitory storage medium, and vehicle control system
Daiki Yokoyama, Gotemba (JP); Yoshiyuki Kageura, Shizuoka-ken (JP); Masanori Shimada, Susono (JP); Yoshihiro Sakayanagi, Mishima (JP); and Hiroki Morita, Hiratsuka (JP)
Assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed by TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Aichi-ken (JP)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/829,367.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-095350 (JP), filed on Jun. 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0388517 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. B60W 40/068 (2012.01); B60W 50/08 (2020.01); H04W 4/021 (2018.01)
CPC B60W 40/068 (2013.01) [B60W 50/082 (2013.01); H04W 4/021 (2013.01); B60W 2520/26 (2013.01); B60W 2552/40 (2020.02); B60W 2555/20 (2020.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A vehicle control device configured to control switching of a drive mode of a vehicle including an internal combustion engine and a motor, the vehicle control device comprising a processor configured to switch, in a case where a road surface of a perimeter of a geofencing zone is a road surface on which there is a high probability that the vehicle slips, in a movement route from an outside of the geofencing zone to an inside of the geofencing zone, the drive mode of the vehicle to drive by the motor in a state in which there is a low probability that the vehicle slips, outside the geofencing zone, the geofencing zone being set by a virtual perimeter in which travel of the vehicle is restricted to travel by a power of the motor.