VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM

In a vehicle control system (), a control unit () executes a stop process by which the vehicle is parked in a prescribed stop position when it is detected that the control unit or the driver has become incapable of properly maintaining a traveling state of the vehicle, and, in the stop process, if a sidewalk or a road sign is recognized ahead of the vehicle according to a signal from an external environment recognition device (), the control unit determines the stop position according to the recognized sidewalk or road sign.