Patent 7751962 was granted and assigned to NISSAN MOTOR CO.,LTD. on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A vehicle travel controlling apparatus and method in which a target vehicle speed for when a vehicle travels along a curve is calculated based on a radius of the curve, and the vehicle speed is controlled based on the calculated target vehicle speed. When an accelerator operation performed by a driver is detected, the controller corrects the target vehicle speed based on a vehicle position where the acceleration operation is performed.