VEHICLE TRAVELING CONTROL APPARATUS

A vehicle traveling control apparatus is configured to be applied to a vehicle and includes a traveling environment data acquiring unit and a traveling controller. The traveling controller includes a preceding vehicle recognizing unit, a curve curvature detecting unit, and a vehicle speed keep controlling unit. The preceding vehicle recognizing unit is configured to recognize a preceding vehicle, based on traveling environment data acquired by the traveling environment data acquiring unit. The curve curvature detecting unit is configured to detect a curvature of a curved road, based on the traveling environment data or road map data. The vehicle speed keep controlling unit is configured such that, in a case where the preceding vehicle recognizing unit loses track of the preceding vehicle, the vehicle speed keep controlling unit cause the vehicle to travel on the basis of a preceding-vehicle-following vehicle speed that is before losing track of the preceding vehicle.