Patent attributes
A driving supporting apparatus comprises a notification device that performs a notification to a driver of a host vehicle; and a control unit capable of causing the notification device to perform an approaching notification to notify the driver that a following vehicle present behind the host vehicle has approached the host vehicle, when the following vehicle satisfies a predetermined approaching condition. The control unit is configured to cause the notification device to perform the approaching notification, when the following vehicle satisfies the approaching condition in a case where an adjacent lane is present, if a permission condition depending on presence or absence of an adjacent vehicle traveling in the adjacent lane is satisfied. The permission condition used when the adjacent vehicle is present has been set to a condition that is harder to be satisfied than a condition set as the permission condition used when the adjacent vehicle is not present.