GETTING-OUT ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

A getting-out assistance apparatus performs alerting to an occupant of a vehicle by an alerting device of the vehicle to inform the occupant of a presence of a moving object approaching the vehicle and having a probability of coming into contact with at least one door of the vehicle if the at least one door is opened. The apparatus determines a manner of the alerting performed by the alerting device depending on at least one of alerting device type information, vehicle destination information, and control unit specification information. The alerting device type information corresponds to information on a type of the alerting device installed in the vehicle. The vehicle destination information corresponds to information on a destination of the vehicle. The control unit specification information corresponds to information specifications of the electronic control unit which activates the alerting device.