Vehicle control apparatus

Abstract

A vehicle control apparatus executes vehicle control for reducing a collision risk of colliding with a vehicle when an object having the collision risk is present. The vehicle control apparatus is configured to: prohibit execution of the vehicle control when an operation relating to a behavior of the vehicle by a driver satisfies a predetermined prohibition condition; permit execution of the vehicle control even when the prohibition condition is met when an acceleration operation for accelerating the vehicle satisfies a predetermined permission condition; and cause the permission condition to be met more easily when at least one of a state of the driver or a traveling state of the vehicle is an abnormal state as compared to when both of the state of the driver and the traveling state of the vehicle are a normal state.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.