Patent ID: 8485942

Claim:
A vehicle control system comprising: a power source coupled with drive wheels of a vehicle and controlled based on a control amount; an automatic transmission disposed between the power source and the drive wheels and a gear shift of which is controlled based on a gear shift instruction; a gear shift operation device configured to instruct a gear shift in response to an operation of a driver; a vehicle control device configured to perform any control of automatic gear shift control that controls the power source and the automatic transmission, respectively based on the control amount which is determined based on a request value corresponding to acceleration determined based on an accelerator operation amount in response to an accelerator operation performed by the driver and a vehicle speed and based on the gear shift instruction, and manual gear shift control that controls the automatic transmission based on the gear shift instruction from the gear shift operation device as well as controls the power source based on the control amount which is determined based on the accelerator operation amount and the vehicle speed so that a change of acceleration generated to the vehicle by the gear shift becomes larger than that at the time of automatic gear shift control; and a control switching instructing device configured to instruct to switch control between the automatic gear shift control and the manual gear shift control in response to an operation of the driver, wherein after the control switching instruction is issued, the vehicle control device changes a switching operation that actually switches the control in response to the accelerator operation, and the switching operation includes changing the control amount from a pre-switching control amount which is the control amount at the time of control before the control is switched to a post-switching control amount which is the control amount at the time of control after the control is switched, and the control amount is changed more gently when the accelerator is turned on than when the accelerator is turned off.