A driving assistance apparatus includes a driving assister section, a scene determiner section, and an assignment determiner section. The driving assister section provides a driving assistance to a driver in a vehicle using a sensing result by a sensor device monitoring a periphery of the vehicle. The scene determiner section determines whether a driving scene requiring the driver to confirm safety takes place. The assignment determiner section determines an assignment of an implementation work that is to be implemented by the driver according to the driving scene when the scene determiner section determines that the driving scene requiring the driver to work takes place; the practice work precludes an exemption work from which the driving assister section exempts the driver.