Patent ID: 8548709
Filing Date: 2013-10-01
Classification: B60T,B60W

Abstract:
1. A drive assisting device comprising: a detection unit that detects a traveling state of a host vehicle; a vehicle control unit that gives a braking force for a predetermined amount of control of the host vehicle so that the traveling state of the host vehicle detected by the detection unit becomes a predetermined state; operation amount changing means for prohibiting the vehicle control unit from giving the braking force for the predetermined amount of control of the host vehicle after the braking force given by the vehicle control unit becomes equal to or larger than a predetermined value; restoration means for restoring the state of operation that the braking force is prohibited by the operation amount changing means to the state before the braking force is prohibited by an operation of a driver of the host vehicle; wherein the detection unit detects an inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and another vehicle; the vehicle control unit applies braking force to the host vehicle so that the inter-vehicle distance between the host vehicle and another vehicle detected by the detection unit becomes a predetermined value; wherein the restoration means for restoring the state of operation that the braking force is prohibited by the operation amount changing means to the state before the braking force is prohibited at anyone of the time that the power source of the host vehicle is in a stopped state, the time of operation of stopping a power source of the host vehicle and the time of an operation of starting the power source of the host vehicle.