| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a device and a method for preventing a vehicle from suffering a rear-end collision that can prevent the subject vehicle from getting rear-ended by a following vehicle without making a driver of the following vehicle feel unnecessarily troublesome. <P>SOLUTION: A device for preventing a vehicle from suffering a rear-end collision prevents the subject vehicle from getting rear-ended by a following vehicle. The device includes: rear-end collision suffering possibility determining means for determining the possibility of the subject vehicle getting rear-ended by the following vehicle; deceleration operation possibility determining means for determining the possibility of the subject vehicle's driver performing deceleration operation; and attention attracting means for performing to attract the attention of the following vehicle's driver based on the possibility of the rear-end collision determined by the rear-end collision suffering possibility determining means. The attention attracting means, when it is determined by the deceleration operation possibility determining means that there is a high possibility of the subject vehicle's driver performing deceleration operation, performs to attract the attention in earlier timing than the case when it is determined that there is a low possibility of the subject vehicle's driver performing the deceleration operation. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2012,JPO&INPIT |
