A technology for preventing a driver from being distracted even if a
navigation operates on an input device in the rear seat. A navigation
system, connected to a combination of an output/input devices of a driver
and to a combination of an output device and an input device of a fellow
passenger, comprises a setting information storage unit storing setting
information indicating whether or not information generated is to be
output to the output device of the driver and an output processing unit,
to the output device of the driver according to the setting information
read from the setting information storage unit. When operation
information enters from the input device of the fellow passenger, the
setting information, stored in the setting information storage unit for
the processing, changes to the information indicating that information is
not output to the output device of the driver.