Patent ID: 6941130

Claim:
An information providing apparatus, for a moving object, adapted to permit a plurality of information provided through radio communication to be provided over at least one of a voice section and a display section, comprising: an input operation unit arbitrarily setting a sequence in which the information is provided; an information providing sequence setting section automatically setting the sequence in which the information is provided; a traveling status discriminating section discriminating a traveling status of a moving object; an information providing initiation discriminating section discriminating an initiation at which the information is provided; and an information providing mode change-over section executing change-over between a first information providing mode to permit the information to be provided in a sequence preset with the input operation unit and a second information providing mode to permit the information to be provided in a sequence determined with the information providing sequence setting section; wherein the information providing mode change-over section is operative to change over between the first information providing mode and the second information providing mode in response to a resulting discrimination of the traveling status discriminating section when the information providing initiation discriminating section discriminates the initiation at which the information is provided.