Patent ID: 8825339

Claim:
A vehicular drive control apparatus, comprising: alternately accelerating and decelerating means for setting upper and lower limits of a running speed of the vehicle on the basis of the running speed at a time when control initiating conditions have been satisfied, and running the vehicle in an alternately accelerating and decelerating mode by alternately repeating an accelerating run and a decelerating run of the vehicle at the running speed varying between the set upper and lower limits, said control initiating conditions including a condition that the vehicle is in a steady running state in which an amount of variation of an operation amount of an accelerator pedal is held within a predetermined range while an amount of variation of the running speed of the vehicle is held within a predetermined range; and learning means for reducing the range of variation of the running speed or a rate of variation of the running speed during a subsequent running of the vehicle in the alternately accelerating and decelerating mode, when the amount of variation of the operation amount of said accelerator pedal during a present running of the vehicle under the control of said alternately accelerating and decelerating means has become equal to or larger than a predetermined upper limit, and wherein an operation of said learning means is inhibited when the amount of variation of the operation amount of said accelerator pedal is equal to or larger than a predetermined learning inhibition threshold value.