Patent ID: 7151993

Claim:
A vehicle cruise control system comprising: a preceding object detecting section configured to detect an object existing in front of a host vehicle in equipped with the cruise control system is installed, and to detect a relative positional relationship between the object and the host vehicle; a cruise control section configured to control vehicle speed of the host vehicle to a target traveling state based on the relative positional relationship detected by the preceding object detecting device; a wiper operation detecting section configured to detect a vehicle wiper operating state of the host vehicle; and a cruise control prohibiting section configured to prohibit cruise control by the cruise control section depending on the vehicle wiper operating state detected by the wiper operation detecting section and the target traveling state set by the cruise control section, the cruise control prohibiting section being further configured to restrict prohibiting of the cruise control depending on the target traveling state set by the cruise control section even if the vehicle wiper operating state detected by the wiper operation detecting section indicates the cruise control needs to be prohibited.