VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

A vehicle control device including an eco-run control system for automatically stopping the engine under a predetermined condition when the vehicle is stopped and starting the engine under a predetermined restart condition further includes a vehicle surroundings monitoring device that detects a possibility of the vehicle being collided with by another vehicle. When the vehicle surroundings monitoring device detects a possibility of collision while the engine is kept in a stop mode because of eco-run control and when starting the engine will provide a benefit (when there is a possibility of avoiding a collision), the engine is immediately started to give the driver an opportunity to avoid the collision and a PCS device is activated in preparation for the collision. When the collision is inevitable, only the PCS device is activated.