Patent ID: 8019487
Filing Date: 2011-09-13
Classification: G06F,G11C

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control system installed in a vehicle and including a computer integrated with a first nonvolatile memory that is rewritable, the vehicle control system comprising: a second nonvolatile memory storing therein software, the software allowing the computer to execute an at least part of vehicle control, and a writing unit accessible to the first and second nonvolatile memories and configured to: wherein the second nonvolatile memory is designed to be writable; wherein, when receiving an instruction and a writing-target piece of additional software from an external device, the writing-target piece of software allowing the computer to execute an at least part of vehicle control, the writing unit is configured to: wherein a piece of software is stored in the first nonvolatile memory so that the piece of software allows the computer to execute an at least part of the vehicle control, and, if it is determined that the writing of the writing-target piece of additional software into the second nonvolatile memory is abnormally completed, the writing unit is configured to: