Mazda Motor Corporation

Ryo Oyama

Hitoshi Ochimizu

Takeshi Sasaki

Chikara Sato

Shunsuke Nobuoka

Masaaki Aoki

Ryosuke Matsuo

A brake operation portion that allows a manual brake operation is included in a vehicle cabin, the brake operation portion includes a grip portion, and an elbow rest member is provided at, in the vehicle rear side of the grip portion, a position on which an elbow of a driver can abut in a state in which the driver grips the grip portion so as to be capable of operating the grip portion. Thus, even a physically disabled driver may freely perform a driving operation and easily manually perform a delicate brake operation.

Driving assistance apparatus

A vehicle interior structure includes a pedal-backward-preventive bracket against which a supporting portion of a control panel abuts when the control pedal controlled by a foot of a driver moves backward, the pedal-backward-preventive bracket being fixed to an instrumental panel support member extending in a vehicle width direction, a mount bracket on which a head-up display is mounted, the mount bracket being fixed to the instrumental panel support member, and a load transfer portion that is provided between the pedal-backward-preventive bracket and the mount bracket to transfer a rearward load input to the pedal-backward-preventive bracket to the mount bracket via the supporting portion.

Vehicle interior structure

Growing community of inventors

Hiroshima, Japan

Ryo Oyama