Patent ID: 8296049

Claim:
A vehicle control device comprising: a processor; and a memory, the memory storing instructions that when executed cause the processor to perform as: an arithmetic unit which calculates a curve representing a product of a vehicle weight and a height of a center of gravity of a vehicle on the basis of behavior of the vehicle; a range restriction unit which superimposes the curve on a line representing a relationship between the vehicle weight and the height of the center of gravity set in advance for the vehicle to restrict the range of the vehicle weight and the height of the center of gravity; and a selection unit which selects the value of the vehicle weight and the value of the height of the center of gravity from the range restricted by the range restriction unit, wherein the selection unit selects a value greater than an intermediate value of the vehicle weight in the range as the value of the vehicle weight and selects a value greater than an intermediate value of the height of the center of gravity in the range as the value of the height of the center of gravity.