Vehicular pedal device

A vehicular pedal device for controlling a vehicular pedal including an accelerator pedal provided in a vehicle having an automatic speed control function, the vehicular pedal device comprising:

• a stroke characteristic control unit that controls a stroke characteristic of the vehicular pedal with respect to a pedaling force of a driver;
• wherein:
• the stroke characteristic control unit changes the stroke characteristic of the vehicular pedal to a stepped stroke characteristic when the vehicle is under automatic speed control, and the stepped stroke characteristic is a stroke characteristic having a stepping force step corresponding to an override stroke position at which override of the automatic speed control is started by operation of the vehicular pedal by the driver;
• and
• the stroke characteristic control unit controls the stepped stroke characteristic of the accelerator pedal such that a start position of the stepping force step is closer to an initial position of the accelerator pedal when the vehicle is decelerated by the automatic speed control than when the vehicle is not decelerated by the automatic speed control.