Vehicle control device with an
information retrieval device (24, 26) which obtains
peripheral information containing information about objects located around a vehicle and a lane of its own on which the vehicle is currently traveling, a
brake actuator (54) adapted to be capable of applying braking force to the vehicle, a steering
actuator (66) adapted to be capable of changing a
steering angle of the vehicle, and a
control unit (20, 40, 50, 60) which controls the
brake actuator and the steering actuator, where the
control unit is set up to Obtaining a collision index value indicating a probability that the vehicle and the objects located in a travel range of the vehicle may collide with each other based on the
peripheral information (step 415), and obtaining an overlap rate indicating a degree of overlap in a vehicle width direction between the vehicle and an obstacle that is the object with the smallest collision index value based on the
peripheral information (step 420 and step 425), Performing an automatic
brake control in which the brake actuator is controlled to apply the braking force to the vehicle (step 445 "Yes") when an execution condition, which is satisfied when the collision index value for the obstacle and a collision avoidance threshold satisfy a predetermined condition, is satisfied (step 440 "Yes"), in a case where the overlap rate is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold overlap rate (step 430 "Yes"), Performing an
automatic steering control in which the
steering angle is changed by the steering actuator such that the vehicle travels to the avoidance area (step 470) when the execution condition is satisfied (step 465 "Yes"), in a case where the overlap rate is smaller than the predetermined threshold overlap rate (step 430 "No") and further an avoidance area exists in which the vehicle can avoid a collision with the obstacle without traveling out of its own lane, and a passage of the vehicle is not blocked by a passage-barrier object that is an object other than the obstacle (step 455 "Yes"), and Performing the
automatic braking control (step 720) when at least one specific condition including a condition that the execution condition is satisfied is satisfied (step 485, step 705 "Yes"), when the passage barrier object exists (step 475 "Yes"), in a case where the overlap rate is smaller than the threshold overlap rate (step 430 "No") and further the avoidance area does not exist (step 455 "No").