Patent ID: 8121755

Claim:
A sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device mounted in a vehicle, for emitting a sound directed outside the vehicle, said sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device comprising: a sound emitting unit for emitting a sound directed outside the vehicle; a storage unit for storing criteria by each of which to determine whether or not a running zone is a high-risk zone, each of said criteria describing a status of the vehicle; an information acquiring unit for acquiring information showing a status of said vehicle; a determining unit for comparing the information showing the status of said vehicle acquired by said information acquiring unit with said criteria read from said storage unit to determine whether or not said vehicle is running through a high-risk zone; and a control unit for controlling the output of said sound emitting unit while not stopping the output of said sound emitting unit when said determining unit determines that said vehicle is running through a high-risk zone even if a predetermined operation of commanding a stop of the output of the sound is performed thereon by something outside said sound-directed-outside-vehicle emitting device.