Patent ID: 8694200

Claim:
An advice provision apparatus comprising: a vehicle information acquisition unit for acquiring vehicle information that represents a condition of a vehicle; a diagnosis unit for diagnosing a driving condition of the vehicle for a travel section based on the vehicle information acquired by the vehicle information acquisition unit and for providing a diagnosis result for the travel section, the travel section being a unit of travel by the vehicle having a predetermined travel distance; an advice generation unit for generating advice to be provided for a driver of the vehicle based on the diagnosis result provided by the diagnosis unit; and an advice notification unit for notifying the driver of the advice generated by the advice generation unit, wherein the diagnosis unit provides the diagnosis result for each travel section that satisfies the predetermined travel distance, and compares the diagnosis result of a subject travel section during a travel event with the diagnosis result of a previous travel section that was diagnosed before the subject travel section and occurred within the same travel event as the subject travel section, and the advice generation unit generates the advice in regards to the diagnosis result of the subject vehicle when the diagnosis unit determines that the diagnosis result of the subject travel section is worse than the diagnosis result of the previous travel section, wherein the travel event starts when an accessories (ACC) switch is turned on and ends when the ACC switch is turned off.