Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a merging permission and prohibition determination unit configured to determine whether or not a host vehicle is able to merge while keeping autonomous driving based on a merging destination non-host vehicle situation and a road shape, a traveling controller configured to, in a case where determination is made that the host vehicle is not able to merge while keeping autonomous driving, control traveling, of the host vehicle so as to bring a merging preparation situation, in which a driver of the host vehicle is likely to start a manual operation to make the host vehicle merge, and a manual operation proposition unit configured to, in a case, where the merging preparation situation is brought, propose starting the manual operation to make the host vehicle merge to the driver.

Abstract: An ECU executes a program including the steps of changing a target shift stage when a current shift change mode is set to an automatic shift change mode and when a driver has intention to change a shift stage, changing a shift range to an N range when he/she has intention for neutral, maintaining the automatic shift change mode when it is determined that he/she does not have intention for neutral but he/she has intention to switch the shift change mode and when such determination is made for the first time after return from the N range, and switching the shift change mode to a manual shift change mode when such determination is not made for the first time.

Abstract: An ECU executes a program including the steps of changing a target shift stage when a current shift change mode is set to an automatic shift change mode and when a driver has intention to change a shift stage, changing a shift range to an N range when he/she has intention for neutral, maintaining the automatic shift change mode when it is determined that he/she does not have intention for neutral but he/she has intention to switch the shift change mode and when such determination is made for the first time after return from the N range, and switching the shift change mode to a manual shift change mode when such determination is not made for the first time.