Patent ID: 7215254

Claim:
A driving assistance system that is provided in a subject vehicle and communicates with at least one of remote driving assistance systems, the driving assistance system comprising: a detecting unit that detects a position of the subject vehicle and outputs positional information; a communicating unit that communicates with a remote driving assistance system; a displaying unit that displays various information; and a controlling unit that sends the positional information outputted by the detecting unit via the communicating unit to the remote driving assistance system, receives comparable positional information of a given vehicle that is provided with the remote driving assistance system via the communicating unit from the remote driving assistance system, and causes the displaying unit to display using a vehicular model a positional relationship between the subject vehicle and the given vehicle based on the positional information of the subject vehicle and the comparable positional information of the given vehicle, while the subject vehicle approaches and passes the given vehicle, wherein the vehicular model includes shapes of related vehicles relating to the positional information and the comparable positional information.