Patent ID: 8576062

Claim:
A driving advice provision apparatus comprising: an information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information that represents a condition of a vehicle; a diagnosis unit for diagnosing on diagnosis items regarding a driving condition of the vehicle based on the vehicle information acquired by the information acquisition unit; an advice generation unit for generating an advice to be provided for a driver of the vehicle based on a diagnosis result by the diagnosis unit; a notification unit for notifying the advice for the driver of the vehicle generated by the advice generation unit, wherein the diagnosis items are multiple items of diagnosis, the diagnosis unit uses a diagnosis method that is suitable for respective items of diagnosis, the advice generation unit notifies the advice at a timing that is suitable for respective items of diagnosis, the notification unit notifies the generated advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle, the notification unit includes an advice selection unit that at least selects an advice having a high priority assigned to each of the advices in advance, the notification unit notifies the driver of the vehicle of the advice selected by the advice selection unit in a prioritized manner, the advice generation unit generates the advice at a time of stopping the vehicle or during a stopping of the vehicle, the multiple items of diagnosis includes environment-related diagnosis items and safety-related diagnosis items, the advice selection unit selects a high priority environment-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the environment-related diagnosis items, and selects a high priority safety-related advice having the highest priority from among the generated advices on the safety-related diagnosis items, and the notification unit notifies the driver of the high priority environment-related advice and the high priority safety-related advice.