Vehicle control apparatus and program

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing therein a program applied to a vehicle control apparatus capable of controlling a travel speed of an own vehicle, the program causing a processor to perform processes comprising:

• a turn signal determination process for determining that another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to an own vehicle lane in which the own vehicle travels and the other vehicle has turned on a turn signal on a side of the own vehicle lane;
• a speed determination process for determining whether another vehicle speed that is a travel speed of the other vehicle is lower than an own vehicle speed that is the travel speed of the own vehicle;
• and
• a deceleration control process for performing deceleration control of the own vehicle with a speed obtained by a predetermined offset speed being added to the other vehicle speed as a target speed, in response to the turn signal in the other vehicle being determined to be turned on in the turn signal determination process and the other vehicle speed being determined to be lower than the own vehicle speed in the speed determination process.

A vehicle control method for controlling a travel speed of an own vehicle, the vehicle control method comprising:

• determining that another vehicle is traveling in an adjacent lane adjacent to an own vehicle lane in which the own vehicle travels and the other vehicle has turned on a turn signal on a side of the own vehicle lane;
• determining that another vehicle speed that is a travel speed of the other vehicle is lower than an own vehicle speed that is the travel speed of the own vehicle;
• and
• performing deceleration control of the own vehicle with a speed obtained by adding a predetermined offset speed to the other vehicle speed as a target speed, in response to the turn signal in the other vehicle being determined to be turned on and the other vehicle speed being determined to be lower than the own vehicle speed.