Patent ID: 9026333
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: B60W

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control device, comprising: an operating amount acquiring unit acquiring an amount of accelerator operation of a vehicle; a peripheral environment detecting unit detecting a peripheral environment of the vehicle; a risk calculating unit calculating a risk to the vehicle based on the peripheral environment detected by the peripheral environment detecting unit; a threshold setting unit setting a threshold value for the amount of accelerator operation based on the risk calculated by the risk calculating unit; and a danger suppressing unit suppressing a dangerous situation for the vehicle when the amount of accelerator operation acquired by the operation amount acquiring unit exceeds the threshold set by the threshold setting unit; wherein the danger suppressing unit performs an acceleration suppressing control that suppresses acceleration of the vehicle as the control performed to suppress a dangerous situation for the vehicle; and a judgment threshold for the amount of accelerator operation is set to be low when the risk is high and set to be high when the risk is low.