Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Gakushi Fukuda

Go Nakamoto

Yuji Kurasawa

Keiichi Mizumura

Takuma Noguchi

A travel assistance system including a server that assists traveling of a vehicle, comprises: a recognition unit configured to recognize an obstruction factor for traveling of the vehicle; an obtainment unit configured to obtain information of an approaching vehicle that approaches the obstruction factor; a generation unit configured to, based on information of the obstruction factor recognized by the recognition unit, generate warning information corresponding to information of a type of the approaching vehicle obtained by the obtainment unit; a transmission unit configured to transmit the warning information to the approaching vehicle; and a control unit configured to give notification to an occupant of the approaching vehicle and/or control traveling of the approaching vehicle based on the warning information.

Travel assistance system, travel assistance method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that stores program

A travel support system includes a server configured to support the travel of a vehicle. The server comprises a recognition unit configured to recognize an obstacle on a travel path of the vehicle, an obtainment unit configured to obtain, upon detecting an approaching vehicle which is approaching the obstacle, a blind spot region which occurs due to the obstacle recognized by the recognition unit, and a notification unit configured to notify the approaching vehicle of information of the blind spot region obtained by the obtainment unit. The server is arranged in an apparatus other than the approaching vehicle.

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Tokyo, Japan

Gakushi Fukuda