Patent ID: 6351702
Filing Date: 2002-02-26
Classification: B60K,B60T,B60W

Abstract:
An apparatus for automatically controlling a vehicular velocity for a vehicle, comprising:an inter-vehicle distance detector to detect an inter-vehicle distance of the vehicle to a preceding vehicle which is running ahead of the vehicle; a target vehicular velocity variation rate calculating section that calculates a target vehicular velocity variation rate to make the detected inter-vehicle distance substantially equal to a target inter-vehicle distance; a vehicular run controlling section that is enabled to perform a vehicular run control to maintain the target vehicular velocity variation rate; a release condition detector to detect whether a release condition of the vehicular run control by the vehicular run controlling section is established; and a vehicular run control releasing section that releases the vehicular run control at a time at which a vehicular deceleration control is completed, on condition that the vehicular run controlling section is detected to be performing the vehicular deceleration control and the release condition detector detects that the release condition is established.