VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE SPEED LIMITING APPARATUS

摘要

A vehicle speed control apparatus (40) comprises an upper-limit determination part (41) to determine an upper-limit speed of a vehicle each time a speed limit of a road on which the vehicle is traveling changes and a vehicle speed control part (47) to control a speed of the vehicle in such a manner as to not exceed the upper-limit speed even if the vehicle's accelerator pedal depression amount would cause the speed of the vehicle to exceed the upper-limit speed, the vehicle speed control part being configured to control, until a predetermined timing, that the speed of the vehicle does not exceed the upper-limit speed, the upper-limit speed being determined before a start of the vehicle's lane change is estimated, if (i) the start of the vehicle's lane change is estimated, and (ii) a reduction in the speed limit is determined, the vehicle speed control part being configured to control, after the predetermined timing, that the speed of the vehicle does not exceed the currently determined upper-limit speed.