Patent attributes
A driving assistance device performs collision avoidance control for avoidance of a collision between a vehicle and an object being around the vehicle and detected by an object detector, the collision avoidance control being performed based on collision determination as to a collision between the object and the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes: an object sensing section that senses an object around the vehicle; a blind spot area setting section that sets a blind spot area at an area positioned in the vehicle's blind spot blocked by an obstacle sensed by the object sensing section; an early determination area setting section that sets an early determination area including the blind spot area and extended therefrom; and a collision determination section that accelerates the collision determination for an object sensed in the early determination area, compared with the collision determination for an object sensed outside the early determination area.
