Hitachi, Ltd.

Katsuhiro Samizo

Takashi Okada

Atsushi Katou

Toshiharu Sugawara

Kazuo Muto

Ichiro Kataoka

The invention is to specify a poor visibility portion by using only a sensor standardly mounted on a connected car without any special measurement device or equipment and provide information thereon to a driver or an automatic driving device. A traffic information providing apparatus includes a data reception unit for receiving sensor data from a plurality of connected cars, a moving object detection/loss position calculation unit for calculating at least a position where the sensor has detected or lost a moving object on the basis of the sensor data of the connected cars, an information addition unit for adding a calculation result obtained by the moving object detection/loss position calculation unit to map information, a driver assistance information preparation unit for preparing driver assistance information on the basis of the map information to which information has been added by the information addition unit, and a data transmission unit for transmitting the driver assistance information prepared by the driver assistance information preparation unit to connected cars.

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Tokyo, Japan

Katsuhiro Samizo