VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING VEHICLE-CONTROL FORCE

A vehicle control apparatus controls a vehicle-control force of a vehicle that is switchable between traveling under normal traveling control and traveling under cruise control. The apparatus includes a first target-vehicle-control-force determination unit, a second target-vehicle-control-force determination unit, and a vehicle-control-force controlling unit. The first target-vehicle-control-force determination unit determines a target vehicle-control force of the normal traveling control on the basis of an accelerator position, and switches a control mode of the normal traveling control between a normal mode and a one-pedal mode. The second target-vehicle-control-force determination unit determines a target vehicle-control force of the cruise control, and execute override when the accelerator position is greater than a reference accelerator position in the cruise control. The vehicle-control-force controlling unit controls the vehicle-control force on the basis of the target vehicle-control force determined by the first target-vehicle-control-force determination unit or the second target-vehicle-control-force determination unit.