Driving assistance device and controlling method thereof

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a driving assistance device including one or more sensors included in a vehicle, and having a sensing field of view facing outward from the vehicle; and a processor operably connected to the one or more sensors, wherein the processor is configured to: identify a drivable area of the vehicle based on one or more output signals of the one or more sensors in response to execution of an emergency stop function of the vehicle; determine, based on the one or more output signals of the one or more sensors, whether the identified drivable area of the vehicle corresponds to a first area where at least one of parking or stopping of the vehicle is permitted or a second area where the parking and the stopping of the vehicle are prohibited; and output a signal to control the vehicle to stop in the identified drivable area corresponding to the first area where at least one of the parking or the stopping of the vehicle is permitted in response to determination that the identified drivable area of the vehicle corresponds to the first area.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.