| CPC B60W 30/146 (2013.01) [B60W 10/18 (2013.01); B60W 40/076 (2013.01); B60W 40/105 (2013.01); B60W 40/13 (2013.01); B60W 2300/12 (2013.01); B60W 2510/182 (2013.01); B60W 2530/10 (2013.01); B60W 2552/15 (2020.02)] | 3 Claims |

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1. A vehicle control device comprising:
a processor configured to:
detect a deceleration of an own vehicle which follows a preceding vehicle;
specify that the own vehicle is scheduled to stop based on a change in a speed of the preceding vehicle behind which the own vehicle travels;
start reducing a brake pressure when a traveling speed of the own vehicle becomes equal to or less than a threshold value; and
determine the threshold value such that the threshold value increases as the detected deceleration increases after the specifying that the own vehicle is scheduled to stop.
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