Patent ID: 7177749

Claim:
A vehicle driving support apparatus for a vehicle traveling at a vehicle speed that executes an automatic follow-up control with respect to a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle, comprising: preceding vehicle recognition means for recognizing the preceding vehicle and determining the intervehicle distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle based on at least an image of circumstances in a traveling direction of the vehicle. intervehicle time calculation means for calculating an intervehicle time by dividing the intervehicle distance between the vehicle and the preceding vehicle by the vehicle speed; driver follow-up driving determination means for determining that the vehicle is in a follow-up driving state executed by the driver when (i) the intervehicle time is set to a value within a set range, (ii) the intervehicle time continues within the set range for a set period of time and (iii) the automatic follow-up control is off; target control value learning means for obtaining driving information and learning a target control value of the automatic follow-up control based on the driving information generated when it is determined that the vehicle is in the follow-up driving state executed by the driver; and automatic follow-up control execution means for outputting an actuation signal to a predetermined actuating section based on the learned target control value when the automatic follow-up control is executed.