Driving support apparatus
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorEiji Nunobiki
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Abstract
A driving support apparatus is configured to perform an alert to a driver of a host vehicle when there is an approaching vehicle that is located in an alert area set in a front side area or a rear side area of the host vehicle and is approaching the host vehicle. The driving support apparatus determines whether or not there is a median strip between the host vehicle and the approaching vehicle, when there is the approaching vehicle. The driving support apparatus does not perform the alert when there is the median strip between the host vehicle and the approaching vehicle.
Claims4
A driving support system comprising a controller configured to perform an alert to a driver of a host vehicle when there is an approaching vehicle that is located in an alert area set in a front side area or a rear side area of the host vehicle and is approaching the host vehicle,
- wherein,
- the controller configured to:
- determine whether or not there is a median strip between the host vehicle and the approaching vehicle, when there is the approaching vehicle;
- and
- perform no alert when there is the median strip between the host vehicle and the approaching vehicle, and
- during an initial time period from a start time at which an ignition of the host vehicle is changed from an off state to an on state to a time at which a travel distance from the start time is equal to or longer than a predetermined distance, determine whether or not there is the median strip between the host vehicle and the approaching vehicle, based on a prior determination that the median strip was present in the travel direction of the host vehicle before the ignition was changed to the off state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.