Patent ID: 8494741

Claim:
A control device for a vehicle causing a vehicle to move by a small distance, comprising: a determination unit configured to determine whether movement by the small distance is necessary; an acquisition unit, when it is determined that said movement by the small distance is necessary, configured to acquire positional information on a control start position where said movement by the small distance is to be started and positional information on a control finish position where said movement by the small distance is to be finished, said positional information on a control start position being acquired from a navigation unit; and a control unit configured to control a driving device and a braking device mounted to said vehicle, based on said acquired positional information, to move said vehicle from said control start position to said control finish position; said determination unit including a first determination unit configured to determine whether movement by the small distance is necessary, based on information on an external environment of the vehicle acquired by an external information acquisition unit acquiring information on the external environment of said vehicle and information on an obstacle blocking a driver's view that is stored in advance in association with said information on the external environment, and a second determination unit configured to determine whether movement by the small distance is necessary, based on information on motions of a driver of said vehicle and said information on an obstacle blocking a driver's view that is stored in advance in association with said information on motions.