Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Tetsuya Suko

Noriaki Suzuki

Kazuya Sakurai

A vehicle speed control device is configured to: acquire an AP opening rate of an accelerator pedal of a vehicle; perform deceleration control according to an AP opening rate-target driving force characteristic; when an operation element is operated for deceleration in a state where pressing on the accelerator pedal has been released, change the characteristic to a second characteristic representing, for a deceleration force to be applied due to the release of pressing on the accelerator pedal, a second deceleration force larger than a first deceleration force that is based on the before-change characteristic; and terminate the deceleration control according to the second characteristic when a target driving force that is based on a result of applying the AP opening rate to the second characteristic has reached a target driving force that is to be applied at the release of pressing on the accelerator pedal according to the before-change characteristic.

Vehicle speed control device

A paddle shifter includes a pair of operation portions that decrease or increase the deceleration, the shift characteristic of the vehicle is set to a fixed shift mode based on the operation of the driver in response to an operation of one operation portion, a shift characteristic of the vehicle is set to a fixed shift mode based on the operation of the driver in response to an operation of the one operation portion, the shift characteristic of the vehicle is set to an automatic shift mode based on a running condition of the vehicle in response to an operation of the other operation portion, and when the one operation portion of the pair of operation portions remains in an ON state for a predetermined period of time, a change in the shift characteristic of the vehicle based on the other operation portion is activated.

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Tokyo, Japan

Tetsuya Suko