Patent ID: 11964534
Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  G  F | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A control apparatus for a vehicle applied to a vehicle configured to perform pre-air conditioning of the interior of the vehicle by starting an internal combustion engine according to a remote control signal sent from a remote controller, comprising a controller including at least one processor,
the controller being configured to execute the processing of;
when starting pre-air conditioning according to the remote control signal, setting the control mode of the vehicle to a drive-disabling mode, which is a control mode that disables an operation for driving the vehicle; and
if a specific mode-cancelling operation is detected in a situation in which the remote controller is present in the interior of the vehicle while the control mode of the vehicle is being set to the drive-disabling mode, cancelling the drive-disabling mode while leaving the internal combustion engine operating.