Patent ID: 9616877
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: B60W,B60Y,Y10T

Claim:
1. A vehicle control device comprising: a control unit that switches a shift range of an automatic transmission by an actuator based on a vehicle speed detected by a vehicle speed sensor and an operation result of a shift range selector by a driver, wherein the control unit switches the shift range to a parking range by the actuator automatically when a vehicle power source is turned off or a drive source is stopped in a state that the vehicle speed detected by the vehicle speed sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined speed and, the control unit notifies the driver via a warning device when a predetermined shift range selection operation is executed by the shift range selector in a state that the vehicle power source is on or the drive source is being driven; and the control unit maintains a neutral range when an operation in which the vehicle power source is turned off or the drive source is stopped is executed while the warning device notifies.