US 12,170,022 B2
Driving assistance apparatus
Hiroshi Kamakura, Wako (JP); and Yasuhiko Awamura, Wako (JP)
Assigned to Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Nov. 7, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/982,499.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-185413 (JP), filed on Nov. 15, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0154334 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G08G 1/16 (2006.01); B60Q 9/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/056 (2006.01); G01S 13/931 (2020.01)
CPC G08G 1/166 (2013.01) [B60Q 9/00 (2013.01); G08G 1/056 (2013.01); G01S 2013/93272 (2020.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving assistance apparatus, configured to assist a driving by a driver of a subject vehicle, the subject vehicle being on a side of a travel path on which a railway vehicle travels,
the driving assistance apparatus comprising:
an approach detection part detecting an approach of the railway vehicle along the travel path from a diagonally backward of the subject vehicle to the subject vehicle without using a road-to-vehicle communication;
a notification part notifying the driver of information; and
an electronic control unit including a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor, wherein
the microprocessor is configured to perform:
estimating a traveling direction of the subject vehicle at an intersection; and
controlling the notification part so as to notify the driver of the approach of the railway vehicle when the traveling direction crossing the travel path is estimated and the approach of the railway vehicle to the subject vehicle is detected by the approach detection part.