| 摘要 |
It is detected whether a vehicle is currently in a running standby state, and, if the vehicle is currently in the running standby state, a predetermined tone is generated periodically. Along with the generation of the tone, a visual display is made in a display style that varies periodically in accordance with a displaying period synchronized with the generating period of the tone. Because that the vehicle is currently in the running standby state can be informed to a vehicle occupant both visually and auditorily in the above-mentioned manner, the vehicle occupant is allowed to intuitively identify that the vehicle is currently in the running standby state. Further, per internal operating state of the vehicle having operated in response to an instruction from an operation section, a tone, corresponding to the internal operating state, is generated for a predetermined tone generation time. Along with the tone generation, illumination control is performed on a light emission section such that a light amount gradually increases or decreases within a predetermined time. In this way, each state/operation of the vehicle can be informed in such a friendly and casy-to-follow manner as to make the vehicle occupant feel as if "the vehicle were awaking" or "the vehicle were falling asleep". |
