Patent ID: 7764192

Claim:
A traveling safety device for a vehicle, comprising: a storage device that stores a road data; a present vehicle position detecting device that detects a position of a present vehicle; a vehicle state detecting device that detects a vehicle state of the present vehicle; a curve recognizing device that recognizes a shape of a curve that exists in a traveling direction of the present vehicle based on the road data stored by the storage device; a proper vehicle state setting device that sets, based on the shape of a recognized curve that is a curve recognized by the curve recognizing device, a proper vehicle state where the vehicle is able to properly pass through the recognized curve; 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; an operating device that operates a safety device provided in the present vehicle if the vehicle state of the present vehicle is not the proper vehicle state based on a comparison result by the comparing device; an improper operation determining device that determines whether or not the operation of the operating device for the recognized curve is improper operation; an improper operation curve storage device that stores, for current use and further use, the recognized curve for which the operation of the operation device is determined to be improper operation by the improper operation determining device; and a suppressing device that suppresses the operation of the operating device for the recognized curve stored by the improper operation curve storage device, wherein if the present vehicle has passed through a curve stored in the improper operation curve storage device, an improper operation memory for the curve stored in the improper operation curve storage device is erased.