VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD AND VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

Provided is a vehicle control method for setting a target acceleration on the basis of a distance to a preceding vehicle or an obstacle and accelerating a subject vehicle on the basis of the target acceleration without relying on a driver's operation, the vehicle control method including calculating an acceleration limit corresponding to an acceleration at which a relative distance to a preceding vehicle or an obstacle is equal to or longer than a reference relative distance at a point of time when a preset acceleration time limit has elapsed since the start of acceleration and at which a relative vehicle speed relative to the preceding vehicle or the obstacle is equal to or lower than a reference relative vehicle speed, and accelerating the subject vehicle at the acceleration limit when the target acceleration exceeds the acceleration limit. 一种车辆控制方法，其基于与在先车辆或障碍物的距离而设定目标加速度，不依赖于驾驶者的操作而基于目标加速度使本车辆加速，其中，对限制加速度进行计算，在目标加速度超过限制加速度的情况下，使本车辆以限制加速度进行加速，其中，该限制加速度为如下加速度，即，使得加速开始之后经过了预先设定的加速限制时间的时刻的相对于在先车辆或障碍物的相对距离大于或等