VEHICLE EMERGENCY WITHDRAWAL DEVICE

摘要

In a vehicle emergency withdrawal device that executes automatic vehicle-stopping control on the basis of an instruction through an instruction input device or a switch of a driver during a driver emergency, provided is a configuration of an instruction input device or switch that takes into account an easily executed or executable operation and the range or position of a spatial region that the driver can access or the driver easily accesses. The emergency withdrawal device contains: a driver physiological condition estimation unit that estimates the physiological condition of the driver; a driver instruction input unit that is operated by the driver, accepts instruction input from the driver, and outputs a command for the execution of automatic vehicle-stopping control in accordance with the instruction input; and an automatic vehicle-stopping control unit that executes automatic stopping control of the vehicle in response to the command from the driver instruction input unit. On the basis of the physiological condition of the driver estimated by the driver physiological condition estimation unit, the configuration of the driver instruction input unit, for example, the disposition of a receiver of the driver instruction input unit that receives an instruction from the driver, is altered.