EMERGENCY VEHICLE NOTIFICATION DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING EMERGENCY VEHICLE NOTIFICATION DEVICE

摘要

To improve convenience of a driver.SOLUTION: An emergency vehicle notification device is a general vehicle side device 8 for allowing vibration sections 38 for transmitting a vibration to a general vehicle driver Un of a general vehicle 6 to perform a vibration so as to notify the general vehicle driver Un of an emergency vehicle 2. The device includes: a distance and direction calculation section 60 for identifying a relative travel direction of the emergency vehicle 2 when viewing from an own vehicle; and an emergency vehicle approach notification control section 64 for allowing the vibration section 38 to perform a vibration in vibration patterns that are different for each travel direction of the emergency vehicle 2 calculated by the distance and direction calculation section 60, so as to notify the general vehicle driver Un of an approach of the emergency vehicle 2 and a travel direction of the emergency vehicle 2.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6