To provide a driving support apparatus for vehicles, which suppresses the increase of fuel consumption when evading the collision of vehicles with each other at an intersection by utilizing communication such as vehicle-to-vehicle communication.
The driving support apparatus for vehicles includes: an intersection detection means 1 for detecting an intersection, in which an own vehicle is approaching and which does not have a traffic light; a communication means 2 for exchanging the data of fuel consumption or the like between the own vehicle and the other vehicles; a crossing vehicle extraction means 3 for extracting a crossing vehicle, which is predicted to collide with the own vehicle at the intersection, among the other vehicles; a vehicle group setting means 4 for setting the own vehicle and a series of vehicles following the own vehicle as an own vehicle group and setting the crossing vehicle and a series of vehicles following the crossing vehicle as a crossing vehicle group; a fuel consumption comparison means 5 for obtaining the fuel consumption efficiency of each of the own vehicle group and the crossing vehicle group, and comparing obtained each of the fuel consumption efficiency with each other; and a travel control instruction means 6 for instructing the change of a vehicle speed to the respective vehicles of a low fuel consumption vehicle group so that the own vehicle group and the crossing vehicle group can pass through the intersection without colliding with each other.
YAMADA HIDEYUKI
HIKITA NAOYUKI
YAMAZAKI SHINYA
Fumiaki Otsuka
Sadao Kumakura
Takaki Nishijima
Disciple Maru Ken
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