Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Driving assistance system for vehicle

Abstract:

A driving assistance system for vehicle, which provides a vehicle with assistance information to pass an intersection, includes: a traffic light information acquisition unit for acquiring turn-on time information of a traffic light arranged at the intersection, a running lane information acquisition unit for acquiring traffic lane configuration and traffic lane-use specification at the intersection, a direction indicator operation detection unit detecting an operation of the direction indicator, and a traffic light passage assistance control unit outputting assistance information including information on possibility to pass through the intersection is obtained based on the turn-on time information of the traffic light corresponding to the traffic lane-use specification of the expected running lane for the vehicle, the expected running lane which is determined based on the traffic lane configuration acquired by the running lane information acquisition unit and on a direction indication of detected by the direction indicator operation detection unit.