A drive support apparatus that performs an interaction with a driver with
respect to awareness of safe driving so as to make the driver drive
safely. The drive support apparatus includes: a driving state detecting
portion for acquiring driving state information including at least either
information about a traveling situation of the movable body or
information about a driving operation from an in-vehicle sensor; a driver
information storing portion for storing awareness information
representing digitized awareness of the driver with respect to safe
driving; an interaction controlling portion for generating a question for
checking the driver's awareness with respect to safe driving when the
driving state information and the awareness information satisfy
predetermined interaction-start conditions, outputting the question as a
synthesized voice, and recognizing an answer content from a voice of the
driver to the question; and an awareness information generating portion
for updating the awareness information in accordance with the answer
content recognized by the interaction controlling portion.