Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha

Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Hidebumi Arai

Hideto Iwamoto

Yoshio Sakurai

Masato Hirai

Akiko Imaishi

Reiko Sakata

Kei Kasuga

Masami Aikawa

Yumiko Ochiai

Noriyuki Shirasu

Yoshio Satoh

A rear-road surface illumination apparatus is provided which includes: an avoidance determinerto determine whether to provide a display to induce a following vehicle to avoid a vehicle, on the basis of vehicle information; and a controllerto cause an illumination lightto illuminate a rear road surface with light having illumination information that induces the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle when the avoidance determinerdetermines to provide a display to induce the following vehicle to avoid the vehicle. Therefore, the rear-road surface illumination apparatus can indicate the existence of the vehicle to the following vehicle, to give the existence of the vehicle prominence, and can also make it easy to notify the driver of the following vehicle about what the driver of the vehicle desires the driver of the following vehicle to do.

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Tokyo, Japan

Hidebumi Arai