Patent ID: 8417430

Claim:
A following distance control device comprising: a vehicle speed detecting device that detects a vehicle speed of an own vehicle, and outputs a vehicle speed equal to or less than a predetermined speed as zero; a following distance detecting device that detects a following distance between a preceding vehicle and the own vehicle; a first requested acceleration computing device that computes a requested acceleration from vehicle information including at least the following distance; a control device that controls the following distance to the preceding vehicle on the basis of the requested acceleration, and performs a stop control as the preceding vehicle stops; and a stop determining device that determines a stop of the own vehicle on the basis of a first requested acceleration at a first time point when an output value of the vehicle speed detecting device becomes zero, wherein the stop of the own vehicle is determined at a second time point when a time obtained by dividing a real vehicle speed at the first time point by the first requested acceleration has elapsed since the first time point.