Patent ID: 8204666

Claim:
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: a state of the road with the descending slope, a state of a road in the vicinity of the road with the descending slope, a state of another vehicle in the vicinity of the vehicle, a state in which a braking force of a brake that is installed in the vehicle has dropped below a specific force, 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.