DRIVE ASSIST APPARATUS AND DRIVE ASSIST METHOD

Abstract

An object of the present disclosure is to provide a drive assist apparatus capable of performing appropriate drive assist on a driver which has performed reckless driving or irritating driving and a drive assist method thereof. A drive assist apparatus according to the present disclosure includes: a drive state determination unit determining a drive state including reckless driving intentionally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle on another vehicle and irritating driving accidentally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle but irritating a driver of another vehicle; and an assist controller performing control of assisting driving of the driver of the subject vehicle in accordance with each of a case where the drive state determination unit determines that the reckless driving is performed and a case where the drive state determination unit determines that the irritating driving is performed.

Description

Claims

1. A drive assist apparatus, comprising: a processor to execute a program, anda memory to store the program which, when executed by the processor, performs processes of: determining a drive state including reckless driving intentionally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle on a particular another vehicle and irritating driving accidentally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle but irritating a driver of another vehicle based on a temporal sequence of a relative position of the subject vehicle and the another vehicle; andperforming control of assisting driving of the driver of the subject vehicle in accordance with each of a case where it is determined that that the reckless driving is performed and a case where it is determined that that the irritating driving is performed.

2. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the determination of the drive state includes determination that a driver of the subject vehicle performs the reckless driving when the subject vehicle executes a particular action more than a predetermined number of times on the same another vehicle and determination that the driver of the subject vehicle performs the irritating driving when the subject vehicle temporarily or continuously executes the particular action on the same another vehicle.

3. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the irritating driving includes temporal irritating driving and continuous irritating driving, andthe control of assisting the driving includes control of assisting driving of the driver of the subject vehicle in accordance with each of the temporal irritating driving and the continuous irritating driving.

4. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular action includes a traveling interfering with a traveling of the another vehicle which intends to overtake the subject vehicle.

5. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the traveling interfering with the traveling of the another vehicle includes a traveling in which the subject vehicle and the another vehicle are located on a fast lane and the subject vehicle is located in front of the another vehicle.

6. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the traveling interfering with the traveling of the another vehicle includes a traveling in which the subject vehicle and the another vehicle are located on a no-passing road and the subject vehicle is located in front of the another vehicle.

7. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular action includes a traveling in which the subject vehicle gets close to the another vehicle within a predetermined distance and a traveling of the subject vehicle making the another vehicle perform an avoidance action.

8. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the traveling in which the subject vehicle gets close to the another vehicle and the traveling of making the another vehicle perform the avoidance action include a traveling of the subject vehicle pulling over to the another vehicle traveling along an adjacent traffic lane, a traveling of suddenly entering in front of the another vehicle to cut into a lane of the another vehicle, a traveling of the subject vehicle braking suddenly in front of the another vehicle, and an unsteady traveling of the subject vehicle around the another vehicle.

9. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the particular action includes an action of the subject vehicle using a vehicle body equipment for the another vehicle.

10. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the action using the vehicle body equipment includes a heavy use of a warning tone for the another vehicle in front of the subject vehicle or and a heavy use of flashing of lighting for the another vehicle in front of the subject vehicle.

11. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 1, comprising: performing control of displaying assist information of assisting driving for the driver in accordance with the control of assisting the driving; andperforming control of outputting the assist information with a sound to the driver in accordance with the control of assisting the driving, wherein when it is determined that the reckless driving is performed, control of displaying the assist information is performed, and control of outputting the assist information with a sound is not performed, andwhen it is determined that the irritating driving is performed, control of displaying the assist information is performed, and control of outputting the assist information with a sound is performed.

12. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 11, wherein when the subject vehicle and the another vehicle are located on a no-passing road and the subject vehicle is located in front of the another vehicle, it is determined that the reckless driving or the irritating driving is performed, andcontrol of displaying an empty space located in a travel destination of the subject vehicle is performed.

13. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 1, comprising performing automatic control of a traveling of the subject vehicle in accordance with the control of assisting the driving.

14. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 13, wherein when the subject vehicle and the another vehicle are located on a fast lane and the subject vehicle is located in front of the another vehicle, it is determined that that the reckless driving or the irritating driving is performed, andthe automatic control is performed so that the subject vehicle changes a traffic lane to a driving lane.

15. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 13, wherein when the subject vehicle and the another vehicle are located on a no-passing road and the subject vehicle is located in front of the another vehicle, it is determined that the reckless driving or the irritating driving is performed, andthe automatic control is performed so that the subject vehicle is moved to an empty space located in a travel destination of the subject vehicle.

16. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 1, comprising performing control of recording a video of a drive state where it is determined that the reckless driving or the irritating driving is performed in accordance with the control of assisting the driving.

17. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the control of recording the video includes control of recording the video in an external server.

18. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 16, comprising performing control of displaying assist information of assisting driving for the driver in accordance with the control of assisting the driving, wherein the control of displaying the assist information includes control of displaying the video recorded by the control of recording the video.

19. The drive assist apparatus according to claim 16, wherein the determination of the drive state includes determination whether or not the subject vehicle performs the irritating driving based on an action of the another vehicle for the subject vehicle, and when it is determined that the subject vehicle performs the irritating driving, control of recording a drive state of the subject vehicle before the action of the another vehicle is performed.

20. A drive assist method, comprising: determining a drive state including reckless driving intentionally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle on a particular another vehicle and irritating driving accidentally performed by a driver of a subject vehicle but irritating a driver of another vehicle based on a temporal sequence of a relative position of the subject vehicle and the another vehicle; andperforming control of assisting driving of the driver of the subject vehicle in accordance with each of a case where the reckless driving is performed and a case where the irritating driving is performed.