A manually propelled vehicle includes a vehicle body (10), a wheel system (30) for moving the vehicle body, a grip (20) attached to the vehicle body, a grip sensor that detects a pressure applied to the grip (20), a grip state detector that detects a grip state of the grip (20) based on information acquired from the grip sensor, and a wheel driver that drives the wheel system (30) when the grip state detector detects a predetermined grip state.