VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

In case a vehicle speed control is performed in response to a failure in a steer-by-wire steering system, the vehicle is prevented from accelerating following a speed reduction caused by a braking operation of the vehicle operator. The speed limit control limits a traveling speed of the vehicle below an upper limit speed upon detecting a fault in the steering system, and is configured to set a target deceleration of the vehicle according to the limited traveling speed, perform a deceleration control to bring an actual deceleration of the vehicle to become near the target deceleration, and restrict the actual deceleration from changing to an acceleration side in the deceleration control.