Patent ID: 8442741

Claim:
A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle provided with a drive source, an accelerator pedal, and a brake pedal, the vehicle control apparatus comprising: a drive state detection unit that detects a drive state of the vehicle including a driving force request amount of a driving force outputted from the drive source, an output control unit that executes a reduction control of reducing the driving force outputted from the drive source with respect to the driving force request amount, and a threshold value setting unit that sets a determination threshold value to determine a driver's braking intention on the basis of the correlation between the driving force request amount and the braking force request amount requested by a driver, and a travel state of the vehicle caused by the driving force request amount and the braking force request amount, the drive state detection unit having an accelerator detection unit that detects the depression of the accelerator pedal, and a brake detection unit that detects the depression of the brake pedal, the threshold value setting unit being operative to change the determination threshold value on the basis of the drive state detected by the drive state detection unit, and the output control unit being operative to execute the reduction control when the depression of the accelerator pedal is detected by the accelerator detection unit, the depression of the brake pedal is detected by the brake detection unit, and the driver's braking intention is determined by comparing the travel state calculated on the basis of the drive state detected by the drive state detection unit with the determination threshold value, and not to execute the reduction control when the depression of the accelerator pedal is not detected by the accelerator detection unit, or when the depression of the brake pedal is not detected by the brake detection unit, or when no driver's braking intention is determined by the output control unit.