Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Naruhisa Yoshida

Kenichiroh Hara

Kazuhiro Tomosue

Naoki Nishimura

Shunichiroh Sawai

Tomoyuki Yoshida

Hiroki Iida

Takanori Kusakabe

Hirofumi Mori

Shogo Konishi

Provided is a driving assistance apparatus (a control unit ()) for a vehicle capable of hands-off driving that lets a driver take his or her hands off the steering wheel. The driving assistance apparatus includes a processor () configured to determine, on the basis of sensor information indicating a state of the driver, whether or not the driver is in a state unsuitable for the surrounding monitoring of the vehicle during the hands-off driving, warn the driver through a notification device when it is determined that the driver is in a state unsuitable for the surrounding monitoring, and notify the driver, through the notification device, of a request for holding the steering wheel.

Driving assistance apparatus

A driver information determination apparatus includes a road shape acquisition unit configured to acquire a front section shape ahead of a vehicle; a condition determination unit configured to determine whether the front section shape is a determination target shape; a face direction acquisition unit configured to acquire a face direction of a driver; and a reference face direction determination unit configured to determine a reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. When it is determined that the front section shape is the determination target shape, the reference face direction determination unit determines the reference face direction based on the face direction of the driver. The determination target shape is a shape of a road having a road curvature less than or equal to a preset upper curvature limit or a shape of the road having a road incline within a preset level range.

Driver information determination apparatus

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Susono, Japan

Naruhisa Yoshida