Patent ID: 8830044
Filing Date: 2014-09-09
Classification: B60W,G08G

Abstract:
1. A driving support device that estimates a risk potential that is the degree of a risk with respect to a risk target in driving of a vehicle and performs driving support for a driver of the vehicle on the basis of the estimated risk potential, comprising: a risk bias setting unit configured to set a risk potential bias that is a value for changing the risk potential on the basis of a risk potential determination tendency of the driver; and a risk potential estimation unit configured to change the risk potential on the basis of the risk potential bias set by the risk potential bias setting unit, wherein the risk potential bias setting unit sets, in a case where the number of times that a driving operation for avoiding a risk at a specific point is performed by the driver is equal to or greater than a predetermined number of times that is set in advance, the risk potential bias for decreasing the risk potential relating to the specific point, and wherein the risk potential estimation unit changes the risk potential at the specific point into a smaller value on the basis of the risk potential bias set by the risk potential bias setting unit.