A manually propelled vehicle (1) and a method for controlling a manually propelled vehicle (1) are provided. The manually propelled vehicle (1) includes a vehicle body (10), a grip (20) for a user to grip when walking, a wheel system (30) for moving the vehicle body along with the walking user, a wheel driver (91) for electromotively driving the wheel system (30), a grip sensor (71) configured to monitor distribution of pressure applied to the grip (20), and a controller (80) configured to set parameters of the wheel driver (91) according to output of the grip sensor (71).
