PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive device that enables a visually-handicapped person to readily recognize that a vehicle around him or her approaches.SOLUTION: A safety stick 1a includes a vehicle approach notification device 1 having a receiving circuit receiving radio waves transmitted from a vehicle equipped with an intervehicular communication device 2 for transmitting the radio waves used to detect the approach of the vehicle around him or her, determines whether a distance from the vehicle 2 equipped with the intervehicular communication device is not higher than a reference value based on the radio waves received by the receiving circuit, and notifies a user of the approach of the vehicle 2 using vibrations and/or sounds when the distance from the vehicle 2 equipped with the intervehicular communication device is determined to be not higher than the reference value.COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT【課題】視覚障害者が周辺車両の接近を容易に認識できる装置を安価に提供する。【解決手段】周辺車両の接近を検出するための電波を定期送信する車々間通信装置2を搭載した車両から送信される電波を受信する受信回路を有し、受信回路により受信された電波から車々間通信装置を搭載した車両2との距離が基準値以下であるか否かを判定し、車々間通信装置を搭載した車両2との距離が基準値以下であると判定された場合、車両2の接近を振動および/または音響でユーザに報知する車両接近報知装置1を安全杖1aに備える。【選択図】図2
