A radar apparatus for a vehicle radiates laser beams and integrates a
plurality of received signals corresponding to the same plurality of
successively radiated laser beams. Thus, the sensitivity to detect a
beam-reflecting body is improved. Further, a sampling start timing of the
received signals is delayed as a delay time relative to a radiation
timing of the laser beam corresponding to the received signal. By
changing the delay time, beam-reflecting bodies throughout all detection
distances can be detected even when the number of sampling points is made
smaller than the number of sampling points required to cover all the
detection distances in order to reduce the integration processing load.