Patent ID: 7869917
Filing Date: 2011-01-11
Classification: B60W,G05B,G06F

Abstract:
1. A vehicle control apparatus comprising: a first storage area in which malfunction record information that is information on a record of a malfunction in a vehicle, and identifying information used to identify a program are stored in a nonvolatile manner; a second storage area in which the program is stored in a rewritable and nonvolatile manner; and a control portion that controls rewriting of data in the first storage area and the second storage area, wherein: if the control portion determines that the identifying information stored in the first storage area does not match identifying information corresponding to a second program after the control portion determines that rewriting of the program stored in the second storage area from a first program to the second program is completed, the control portion erases the malfunction record information in the first storage area, and rewrites the identifying information stored in the first storage area to the identifying information corresponding to the second program.