DRIVER ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

An ECU of the driver assistance apparatus performs deceleration assistance for automatically decelerating a vehicle. When the ECU detects driver’s deceleration operation for decelerating the vehicle, it specifies a deceleration-requiring target that causes the driver to decelerate the vehicle. The ECU learns deceleration assistance start position information that indicates a deceleration assistance start position corresponding to a position at which the deceleration operation is started, in association with the specified deceleration-requiring target. After learning, the ECU performs the deceleration assistance when the vehicle reaches the deceleration assistance start position. When the deceleration-requiring target that has been learned in association with the deceleration assistance start position information is determined to have changed, the ECU deletes the deceleration assistance start position information.