To provide a control device capable of making a running free of a sense of incompatibility even in case the vehicle concerned has approached another located ahead.

A vehicle control device is to control either operating mechanism of the vehicle concerned in running on the basis of the distance from another vehicle located ahead, and is equipped with an approaching condition sensing means to sense the vehicle condition of approaching another located ahead (Step 1), a deceleration sensing means to sense the vehicle decelerating condition (Step 2), and an approach control executing means to update the controlling contents of the operating mechanism on the basis of the results of sensing by the two sensing means, (Step 3).