DRIVING ASSISTANCE SYSTEM AND DRIVING ASSISTANCE METHOD

The invention includes: a driving information acquisition unit (1) for acquiring any of an amount of operations by the driver, a vehicle behavior, the state of the driver, and information regarding the environment surrounding the vehicle as driving information; a vehicle location information acquisition unit (2) for acquiring vehicle location information; a statistical information generation unit (3) for generating statistical information by statistically processing the driving information as a time-series pattern; a map information generation unit (4) for generating map information by associating the statistical information with the vehicle location information at the time of the acquisition of the driving information; a map information update unit (71) for updating existing map information to the generated map information; a map information reference unit (5) for referencing and reading the map information based on the vehicle location information; and a driving assistance unit (6) for performing driving assistance based on the read map information.