Patent attributes
The present invention provides a vehicle control apparatus that controls traveling of a vehicle, comprising: a detector configured to detect a surrounding situation of the vehicle; a control unit configured to activate driving assistance of the vehicle in a case where a positional relationship between a target object that has been detected by the detector and the vehicle satisfies an activation condition; an identification unit configured to identify a traveling position of the vehicle; and a determination unit configured to determine reliability of the traveling position of the vehicle that has been identified by the identification unit, wherein the control unit changes the activation condition in accordance with the reliability that has been determined by the determination unit.
