DRIVE ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

Disclosed is a drive assistance apparatus capable of assisting safer driving of a vehicle. The drive assistance apparatus 10 that includes a position detection unit 1 detecting a positional relationship between a preceding vehicle P present in front of a subject vehicle C and the subject vehicle C and executes a drive assistance control assisting the driving of the subject vehicle C according to the detected results, wherein the drive assistance apparatus includes an acquisition unit 2 that acquires signal device information regarding a signal device S on a traveling path of the subject vehicle C and a setting unit 4 that sets execution conditions for executing the drive assistance control based on the signal device information acquired by the acquisition unit 2.