DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE RUNNING

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve fuel consumption, in a device for controlling vehicle running.SOLUTION: The device includes: a gradient-detecting unit 41 for detecting whether the vehicle is running in a preliminarily-set predetermined-road-gradient section; a running condition memory unit 42 for memorizing a running condition of the vehicle in the predetermined-road-gradient section; a gear-stage determining unit 43 for determining whether a current gear-stage is a suitable gear-stage on the basis of the running condition of the vehicle which runs in a memorized road-gradient section; and a gear-stage resetting unit 44 for resetting and memorizing a more suitable gear-stage when the current gear-stage is not the suitable gear-stage.