Patent ID: 7496446

Claim:
A driving support system comprising: a vehicle location detector which detects a current location of and a velocity vector of a vehicle; a traffic and road information database which stores at least point information related to points on a route of the vehicle; a point information acquisition unit which acquires, from the traffic and road information database, the point information of the points on the route of the vehicle, which are located in a given distance from the current location of the vehicle and to which the vehicle is approaching, based on the current location and velocity vector of the vehicle detected by the vehicle location detector; a display device having a horizontally long screen in a lower area of a driver's view during driving when looking ahead through a windshield of the vehicle; and a display control unit for the display device operative to determine display positions on the screen of the display device based on a positional relationship between the current location of the vehicle and the points point information are to be displayed and to display the acquired point information on the screen at the determined display positions.