Patent ID: 8294559

Claim:
A vehicle control device, in which certification of use permission of a vehicle is made by a communication system making use of a portable equipment, the vehicle control device comprising: a display unit that flashes on an emergency occasion when a password for certification of use permission of the vehicle is input without the use of the portable equipment, and a password input unit, with which the password is input according to a number of times that the display unit flashes, wherein the password input unit includes a first switch, and in a case where the password is to be input, timing of the ON and OFF operations of the first switch coinciding with a number of times that the display unit flashes determines each character of the password to be input, and wherein a second switch is provided on the vehicle, and the second switch is operated plural times within a predetermined period of time to bring about a state in which the password can be input, and wherein the display unit is a system display unit that displays a state of the communication system.