Information providing apparatus for vehicle

An information providing apparatus for a vehicle comprising:

• a situation determining portion that determines a current traveling situation based on a vehicle signal transmitted and received in the vehicle and a behavior model obtained by previously modeling a pattern of the vehicle signal for each traveling situation;
• a passenger condition determining portion that performs guiding control based on the current traveling situation determined by the situation determining portion, the guiding control promoting a passenger's awareness by providing an output that is detectable by at least one passenger sense and determines a passenger's condition in response to the guiding control;
• a dialogue control portion that provides notification information on a recommended operation of, of a plurality of in-vehicle devices, an in-vehicle device to the passenger based on the current traveling situation determined by the situation determining portion and the passenger's condition determined by the passenger condition determining portion;
• and
• a control portion that determines whether the notification information is high in urgency or not,
• wherein the guiding control is performed by a sound output from a sound outputting device or a light emitted from a light emitting device;
• wherein when the passenger condition determining portion determines that no passenger detects the guiding control, the passenger condition determining portion performs another guiding control which is different in mode from a previous guiding control;
• and
• wherein when the control portion determines that the notification information is high in urgency, the dialogue control portion provides the notification information without performing the guiding control.