Patent ID: 8306718

Claim:
A vehicle control apparatus comprising: an accelerator-state detecting section configured to detect an accelerator manipulating state of a driver; a traveling-path-condition detecting section configured to detect a condition of a traveling path of a host vehicle; a brake control section configured to cause the host vehicle to automatically generate a braking force; and a control unit configured to control the brake control section on the basis of an input from the accelerator-state detecting section, the control unit being configured to actuate the brake control section in a case where the accelerator-state detecting section detects a decrease of a manipulated variable of the accelerator or an off-state of the accelerator and also where the traveling-path-condition detecting section detects a target object for speed reduction on the traveling path, wherein the control unit is configured to actuate the brake control section on the basis of the target object for speed reduction, when a predetermined time interval has elapsed from a time point when the driver starts to decrease the manipulated variable of the accelerator.