Control device and vehicle

Abstract

Provided are a control device and a vehicle with which rapid and accurate downshifting for maintaining a target vehicle speed can be executed. A control device which is for a vehicle having an automatic transmission that changes the speed for a rotation torque of a drive source using transmission gear ratios of a plurality of travel stages and outputs same to the wheel side, and which executes an auto-cruise travel control for causing the vehicle to travel while maintaining a prescribed speed, the control device being provided with a calculation unit for calculating a decelerated travel stage, which is a travel stage for reducing the current vehicle speed when downshifting from the current travel stage in a condition in which the auto-cruise travel control is being executed and a control for accelerating the vehicle is not being executed while the vehicle speed is increasing.

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