Patent ID: 8753123

Claim:
A driving support system for providing driving support in operation of a vehicle, the driving support system comprising: a drive history database for associating vehicle information including information about vehicle operation with pertinent route information and for registering the information as a drive history; and a drive teaching unit that specifies a travel route of a vehicle subjected to driving support, wherein the drive teaching unit is configured to extract a drive history corresponding to the specified travel route from the drive history database and configured as a guide for the driving support to teach information about the extracted drive history to a driver of the vehicle subjected to the driving support, wherein the drive teaching unit is configured to extract a drive history including a driving operation similar to a driving operation tendency of the driver of the vehicle subjected to the driving support from the drive history database, and the drive teaching unit is further configured to teach information about the extracted drive history to the driver, wherein the drive teaching unit is configured to obtain a distribution of the drive history based on a probability density of the drive history, and is configured to specify a factor for a difference in the driving level on the basis of whether a separation in the distribution of the drive history occurs.