Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Information acquisition apparatus

Abstract:

An information acquisition apparatus provided in a moving object (vehicle) that moves on a road includes: a storage unit that records therein information about the road that is acquired based on movement of the moving object on the road; a determination unit that determines the type of the road on which the moving object moves and determines whether the road is of a predetermined type defined in association with the type of the moving object; and an identifying unit that identifies the information about the road acquired based on the movement of the moving object on the road of the predetermined type and recorded in the storage unit.