Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicle control apparatus, applied to a vehicle having at least one road situation information acquisition device configured to acquire road situation information on a road situation from a device outside of the vehicle, the vehicle control apparatus comprising:

• one or more electronic control units configured to:
• determine whether or not a particular situation regarding a vehicle traveling occurs on the basis of the road situation information from the device outside the vehicle, the particular situation being a situation that a driver of the vehicle should be alerted;
• execute a cruise control for causing the vehicle to travel automatically without an operation of an acceleration operator of the vehicle;
• perform alerting the driver when the one or more electronic control units determines (1) that the particular situation occurs, (2) that the cruise control is not executed and (3) that the acceleration operator is operated;
• and
• perform the alerting the driver when the one or more electronic control units determines (1) that the particular situation occurs and (2) that the cruise control is executed, independently of whether or not the acceleration operator is operated.