Patent ID: 8515615

Claim:
A vehicle travel control apparatus that controls state of travel of a vehicle, comprising: an accelerator pedal sensor that detects an amount of depression of an accelerator pedal; a vehicle travel state detection portion that detects the state of travel of the vehicle; and an output adjustment portion that adjusts a degree of increase or a degree of decrease in an output of the vehicle relative to the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal, based on the state of travel of the vehicle; the output adjustment portion adjusts the degree of increase in the output of the vehicle to a degree that is greater the smaller the amount of increase in the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal, when the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal increases; the output adjustment portion adjusts the degree of decrease in the output of the vehicle to a degree that is greater the smaller the amount of decrease in the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal, when the amount of depression of the accelerator pedal decreases.