VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE ASSISTANCE APPARATUS

The vehicle control system is configured to execute autonomous driving and collision avoidance assistance. The autonomous driving is a process in which an ego-vehicle is autonomously driven based on necessary information for traveling including map information and information on a surrounding environment of the ego-vehicle. The collision avoidance assistance is a process in which the ego-vehicle is operated to avoid a collision in response to that a risk of collision of the ego-vehicle with a forward obstacle exceeds a threshold. The vehicle control system is configured to lower the threshold when the ego-vehicle travels, by the autonomous driving, in an area in which either one of an ego-lane and an opposite lane adjacent to the ego-lane is not travelable.