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摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a driving safety device for a vehicle, adapted to apply a torque to a steering wheel as an alarm when a possibility of contact with an obstacle is determined, while improving a driver's responsiveness to the alarm. PSOLUTION: In the driving safety device for the vehicle adapted to apply torque to the steering wheel of the vehicle, when a possibility of contact with a detected object is determined, to give an alarm to the driver (S24), a steering torque by the driver is detected (S18), whether the driver cannot notice the alarm or not from the detected steering torque (S20), and when it is determined that the driver cannot notice the alarm, the content of the alarm is changed (S22). PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT