Driving assistance device and method

Abstract

The invention provides a driving assistance device and method. The driving assistance device comprises a current position acquiring part, a travel information acquiring part, a pedestrian crossing information acquiring part, a pedestrian information acquiring part, a judgement part and a prompt part, wherein the current position acquiring part acquires a current position of a vehicle; the travel information acquiring part at least acquires travel information of the vehicle in the travel direction; the pedestrian crossing information acquiring part acquires pedestrian crossing information; thepedestrian information acquiring part at least acquires the position of a pedestrian in a pedestrian crossing and around the pedestrian crossing and pedestrian information in the movement tendency direction; the judgement part judges whether or not the vehicle can pass through the pedestrian crossing according to the travel information of the vehicle and the positon and movement tendency directionof the pedestrian when the distance between the current positon of the vehicle and the pedestrian crossing is within the specified distance; the prompt part gives a prompt on a judgment result of thejudgement part.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to a driving assistance device and a driving assistance method, in particular to a driving assistance device and a driving assistance method capable of assisting a vehicle to safely and legally pass through a crosswalk. Background technique [0002] At present, with the continuous increase of the number of vehicles, in order to create a safe and good traffic environment, safe driving and civilized driving have become more and more important issues, and the attention of the society is also very high. More recently, yielding to pedestrians while driving a vehicle is not only an important part of civilized driving, it has been brought under legal jurisdiction across China. In many places, it is stipulated that motor vehicles should give way to pedestrians when passing through the prescribed crosswalk, regardless of whether there are intersections with signal lights or not. If you fail to be courteous to pedestrians, it will ...

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[0010] Therefore, in view of this actual situation, it is difficult for drivers to clearly and accurately grasp the rules of giving way to pedestrians

[0011] If you do not clearly and accurately grasp the rules of giving way to pedestrians, in actual driving, you may be punished and even have traffic accidents because you do not know the rules of giving way to pedestrians when you should give way to pedestrians. Figure 9B Like the motor vehicle B in the vehicle, it can pass, but the driver does not know the rules, so he chooses to stop and wait in order to avoid being punished. This will cause inconvenience to the traffic and become the main cause of traffic jams.

[0012] In addition, when actually driving, if the driver thinks too much about giving way to pedestrians, it may affect driving attention, which is prone to danger and is not conducive to safe driving

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