Patent ID: 8046148

Claim:
A traveling safety device for a vehicle comprising: a brake device that generates a brake force by a brake pressure, to brake a present vehicle; a brake operation detecting device that detects driver's brake operation; a storage device that stores a road data; a present vehicle position detecting device that detects a position of the present vehicle; a vehicle state detecting device that detects a vehicle state of the present vehicle; a road shape recognizing device that recognizes a road shape that exists in a traveling direction of the present vehicle based on the road data stored in the storage device; a proper vehicle state setting device that sets a proper vehicle state where the vehicle is able to properly pass through the recognized road, based on the road shape recognized by the road shape recognizing device; a comparing device that compares the vehicle state detected by the vehicle state detecting device with the proper vehicle state set by the proper vehicle state setting device; and a brake assist control device that increases brake pressure when the driver's brake operation has been detected by the brake operation detecting device if the vehicle state of the present vehicle is not the proper vehicle state as a result of the comparison by the comparing device, wherein the brake assist control device calculates an initial brake assist pressure based on the comparison result of the comparing device, and changes a brake assist pressure in proportion to the brake operation of the driver when a change in the brake operation by the driver has been detected after start of brake assist control based on the initial brake assist pressure.