Patent ID: 8204666
Filing Date: 2012-06-19
Classification: B60K,B60W

Abstract:
1. A driving support device, comprising: a factor information acquisition unit that acquires an item of factor information for each of plural factors that impose a psychological effect on a driver of a vehicle when the vehicle is traveling on a road with a descending slope ahead of the vehicle; an overall psychological effect acquisition unit that, based on the acquired items of factor information, acquires an overall psychological effect that is imposed on the driver when the vehicle is traveling on the road with the descending slope; and a vehicle speed control unit that controls the vehicle speed in accordance with the overall psychological effect; and wherein: the plural factors are selected from: the relationship between the vehicle and the road, and the overall psychological effect acquisition unit is adapted to acquire a degree of psychological stress for each acquired item of factor information and to acquire, as the overall psychological effect, a total of the degrees of psychological stress for all of the acquired items of factor information.