Patent ID: 8872644

Claim:
A driving diagnosis information providing apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a vehicle information acquisition section that is configured to acquire vehicle information indicative of a vehicle state; a diagnosis section that is configured to successively make a diagnosis of a driving state of the vehicle based on the vehicle information indicative of the vehicle state in predetermined intervals, the vehicle information being acquired by the vehicle information acquisition section; a useful information acquisition section that is configured to acquire, as useful information, at least one of announce information and helpful information, the announce information including information to be reported to a driver of the vehicle, the helpful information including information helpful for driving; a notification section that is configured to successively notify the driver of diagnosis information indicative of a result of the diagnosis made by the diagnosis section, and that is configured to notify, within one predetermined interval for the diagnosis section to make the diagnosis for the next diagnosis information, the driver of the useful information in place of the previous diagnosis information; and an advice generation section that is configured to generate advice as the diagnosis information, based on a result of the diagnosis made by the diagnosis section, wherein the useful information is based on data that is not indicative of the vehicle state, the useful information is based on data that is not related to the area adjacent to the vehicle, the result of the diagnosis made by the diagnosis section and which is indicated by the diagnosis information notified to the driver, is either a level of driving economy of the vehicle or a class of the driver's skill, the notification section initially notifies the driver of the advice having a first content each time when the vehicle makes a stop, if a number of times the notification section has notified the driver of the advice having the first content is less than a predetermined number of times; and after the number of times the notification section has notified the driver of the advice having the first content reaches the predetermined number of times, the notification section notifies the driver of the useful information each time the vehicle makes a stop, until the advice generation unit generates the advice having a second content different from the first content.