DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DECIDING CAR DRIVING MENTALITY AND DEVICE AND METHOD FOR SUPPORTING DRIVING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving support technology for making a driver maintain safe driving by deciding a psychological state of the driver with high accuracy and also making the driver recognize the decision results and also to provide a driving mentality deciding device that is relatively easily applied to the existing vehicle. SOLUTION: An input system 10, a data management system 20, a decision control system 30 and an output system 40 are provided to the driving mentality deciding device. The input system 10 associates an actual distance to be secured between the vehicle of the driver and other vehicles with a vehicle speed at that time in actual driving and inputs the actual distance associated with the vehicle speed to the decision control system 30. The decision control system 30 reads a basic distance between vehicles to be reference of a psychological decision from a data management system 20 while made to correspond to a vehicle speed acquired by the input system 10, compares the actual distance between the vehicle inputted from the input system 10 with the basic distance between the vehicles read from the data management system 20 and decides the psychological state of the driver on the basis of the difference between the distances between the vehicles. The decision results are also outputted to the driver side via the output system 40.