Vehicle control apparatus

A vehicle control apparatus, comprising:

• at least one sensor which detects own vehicle forward information on a situation ahead of an own vehicle;
• and
• an electronic control unit configured to execute a steering control for avoiding a collision of the own vehicle with an object recognized, based on the own vehicle forward information, wherein the electronic control unit is configured to:
• determine that a control start condition is satisfied when there is an object in an area of a moving route of the own vehicle;
• determine that a control forbidding condition is satisfied when there is an oncoming vehicle which satisfies a predetermined moving condition that the oncoming vehicle moves in an oncoming lane next to a moving lane of the own vehicle and approaches the own vehicle;
• determine that the control forbidding condition is not satisfied when a forbidding cancelling condition is satisfied, the forbidding cancelling condition being satisfied when a first time elapses since the electronic control unit determines that the oncoming vehicle satisfying the predetermined moving condition disappears after the electronic control unit determines that the control forbidding condition is satisfied;
• and
• execute the steering control when the control start condition is satisfied, and the control forbidding condition is not satisfied.