Vehicle engine controller

An engine controller of a vehicle comprising:

• an accelerator sensor for sensing an operation amount of an accelerator operation section as an accelerator position;
• a brake sensor for sensing an operation of a brake operation section;
• and
• an engine controlling means for controlling an engine based on the accelerator position sensed with the accelerator sensor, wherein
• the engine controlling means determines an on-operation of the accelerator operation section based on an output signal of the accelerator sensor and determines an on-operation of the brake operation section based on an output signal of the brake sensor;
• when it is determined that the on-operation of the brake operation section is performed during the on-operation of the accelerator operation section, the engine controlling means performs accelerator position limit control for bringing an accelerator position for engine control to a limit value corresponding to vehicle speed;
• and
• the engine controlling means reduces the accelerator position for the engine control to the limit value at change speed corresponding to vehicle speed as of start of the accelerator position limit control when the engine controlling means performs the accelerator position limit control,
• wherein the change speed is set such that the change speed decreases with decreases in the vehicle speed as of start of the accelerator position limit control.