To prevent a vehicle from advancing toward a direction unintended by an occupant of the vehicle caused by notifying the occupant of the start of a preceding vehicle that has been stopped.SOLUTION: An apparatus includes: notification means for notifying an occupant of a vehicle that a preceding vehicle has started in a case where the vehicle is stopped following the preceding vehicle; and determination means for determining whether a given condition is established, where the condition is that a steering wheel of the vehicle is not in a neutral state and that an apparent orientation of the steering wheel is the same as the apparent orientation of the steering wheel in the neutral state. Further, in the case of the given condition being established, the notification means does not notify the occupant of the fact that the preceding vehicle has started even if the preceding vehicle has started.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2
【課題】停止中の先行車の発進を車両の乗員に通知することに起因して乗員が意図しない方向に向かって車両が進んでしまうことを防止する。【解決手段】車両が先行車に続いて停止している場合に、先行車が発進したことを車両の乗員に通知する通知手段と、車両のステアリングホイールが中立状態になく且つステアリングホイールの外観上の向きが中立状態にあるステアリングホイールの外観上の向きと同じであるという所定条件が成立するか否かを判定する判定手段とを備え、通知手段は、所定条件が成立すると判定された場合には、先行車が発進した場合であっても、先行車が発進したことを乗員に通知しない。【選択図】図2
PRECEDING-VEHICLE START NOTICE APPARATUS
先行車発進通知装置
2019-03-14
Patent
Electronic Resource
Japanese
PRECEDING-VEHICLE START NOTIFICATION APPARATUS AND PRECEDING-VEHICLE START NOTIFICATION METHOD
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