To prevent a swivel control for vehicle headlights from being delayed against a running state of a vehicle and a forward road state, prevent a driver's forward visibility from being damaged under an appropriate responding characteristic and further prevent strangeness from being felt by the driver.
There will be executed a presence or non-presence of steering of a steering wheel performed by a driver (a step S109), a requirement or non-requirement of a swivel preceding control based on a vehicle speed SPD and a forward road information DNAVI (a step S110), a higher or lower value of a deviation |ESWC-SWC| between an estimated swivel control angle ESWC and a swivel control angle SWC (a step S112), a swivel preceding control preceding to a driver's steering operation (a step S111), a swivel control based on the estimated swivel control angle ESWC (a step S113) and a swivel control based on the swivel control angle SWC (a step S114) through an appropriate filter. Due to this fact, the swivel control is carried out in accordance with the running state of the vehicle and the forward road state, the driver's forward visibility is not damaged and a driver's irregular feeling is prevented.
ISHIGURO KOJI