Driving assistance apparatus for vehicle

A driving assistance apparatus for a vehicle, the driving assistance apparatus comprising:

• a traveling environment information acquirer configured to acquire information regarding traveling environment ahead of the vehicle;
• and
• a vehicle following controller configured to, when a preceding vehicle most previously traveling in front of the vehicle in a same lane as the vehicle is detected based on the information regarding traveling environment acquired by the traveling environment information acquirer, perform a vehicle following control with respect to the preceding vehicle,
• wherein the vehicle following controller comprises
• a registration unit for no-passing target vehicles configured to perform, regarding the preceding vehicle, registration of the preceding vehicle as a no-passing target vehicle when one or both of first and second states are detected based on the information regarding traveling environment acquired by the traveling environment information acquirer, the first state being that the preceding vehicle has departed to a no-passing target lane side, the second state being that the vehicle has departed to a no-passing lane side, and
• a no-passing target following controller configured to perform the vehicle following control with respect to the no-passing target vehicle when the registration unit for no-passing target vehicles has performed the registration as the no-passing target vehicle.