Patent ID: 8897960

Claim:
A driving assistance control apparatus comprising: an own-vehicle position acquiring unit acquiring a current position of an own vehicle; a curve information acquiring unit acquiring curve information on a driving course; a continuous curves detecting unit detecting continuous curves including a first curve existing ahead of the own vehicle and a second curve existing ahead of and continuous to the first curve, the continuous curves detecting unit detecting the continuous curves using the position of the own vehicle acquired by the own-vehicle position acquiring unit and the curve information acquired by the curve information acquiring unit; and a curve alert control unit controlling a curve alerting unit alerting the presence of the first curve, and alerting the presence of the second curve before entering the second curve, the curve alerting unit alerting by using one of alerting methods consisting of a temporary change in the number of revolutions of an engine or a traction motor, applying temporary automatic braking, outputting a warning tone from a speaker, displaying a warning, a temporary change in a pedal reaction force against an acceleration pedal, and applying temporary vibration to a steering wheel, wherein the curve alert control unit sets an alert timing of the presence of the second curve in accordance with the curve information about the first curve, wherein the curve alert control unit advances the alert timing of the presence of the second curve with the increasing degree of curve of the first curve, wherein the curve alert control unit sets a first alert start position at which alerting of the presence of the first curve is started, the first alert start position being set to a position before an entrance of the first curve, wherein the curve alert control unit obtains a second alert start position corresponding to the alert timing of the presence of the second curve, separately from the first alert start position, wherein the curve alert control unit performs a first determination of whether a radius of the first curve is smaller than that of the second curve or whether a curvature of the first curve is higher than that of the second curve, and if the first determination is affirmative, does not alert the presence of the second curve.