| 摘要 |
A driving assistance system which assesses the conditions in which a driver is actually driving a vehicle, as well as assessing driving operations performed by the driver, and provides, on the basis of the assessment, assistance in safety checking and safe driving, etc., during the driving of the vehicle. In a typical embodiment, the vehicle comprises: a vehicle event acquisition unit which detects vehicle events occurring in connection with the entire vehicle; an operational event acquisition unit which detects an operational event generated by the driver's driving operation; a driver state determination unit which, on the basis of association between vehicle events and operational events, determines whether the driver is in a state that requires that the driver execute a predetermined series of actions; and a sight line monitoring unit which, when the driver is in a state that requires that the driver execute the predetermined series of actions, monitors whether the driver is executing the predetermined series of actions, on the basis of information acquired by a viewpoint sensor that detects movement of the line of sight of the driver, wherein if it is determined that the driver is not executing the predetermined series of actions, the sight line monitoring unit notifies the driver of that fact. |
