Mazda Motor Corporation

Kazuya Maruoka

Yuki Yoshida

Yoshitsugu Hanada

Koji Kagami

Kazuhito Hayashi

Toshiki Yoshihara

Hiromichi Nomura

Yuki Okamoto

Koji Hirai

To provide an alarm system for a vehicle that can appropriately raise an alarm to a driver of a vehicle that is entering an intersection. An alarm systemfor a vehicle includes an alarm line setting partthat sets a right alarm lineand a left alarm lineboth extending forward from a vehicle. The alarm line setting partsets the length of the right alarm lineand the left alarm lineat L1 when the vehicle is running in a straight line. The alarm line setting partsets the length of the right alarm lineor the left alarm lineat a length different from L1 when the vehicleis to turn left or right at an intersectionto enter a first laneor a second lane

Alarm system for vehicle

To provide an alarm system for a vehicle that can reduce alarms that can irritate a driver. An alarm systemfor a vehicle includes an alarm line setting partthat sets a right alarm lineand a left alarm linein front of a vehicle, and an alarm unit control partthat activates a speakerand a displaywhen the velocity of the vehicleis equal to or less than a predetermined velocity and a collision determination partdetermines that an object will cross the right alarm lineor the left alarm linewithin a predetermined time. When the vehicleis decelerating, the alarm unit control partperforms an alarm reduction control that suppresses operation of the speakercompared with when the vehicleis not decelerating.

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Hiroshima, Japan

Kazuya Maruoka