VEHICLE DRIVING ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

A vehicle driving assistance apparatus terminates decelerating an own vehicle with a second deceleration characteristic by a deceleration control and starts to decelerate the own vehicle with a first deceleration characteristic by the deceleration control when a predetermined time elapses since an accelerator operation is released while a deceleration target is detected, or when a deceleration intensity of the first deceleration characteristic is equal to or smaller than a predetermined intensity. The apparatus terminates decelerating the own vehicle with a third deceleration characteristic by the deceleration control and starts to decelerate the own vehicle with the first deceleration characteristic by the deceleration control when a predetermined time elapses since a brake operation is released while the deceleration target is detected, or when the deceleration intensity of the third deceleration characteristic is equal to or smaller than a predetermined intensity.