Patent ID: 8032286

Claim:
A system for controlling an irradiating direction of a vehicle lamp, the system comprising: a target swivel angle calculating section arranged to calculate a target swivel angle based on a vehicle steering angle; a swivel driver arranged to execute, based on the target swivel angle, swivel control to swivel the irradiating direction; and a fail-safe controller arranged to execute, upon detection of a failure in the system, a fail-safe operation to stop the swivel control, wherein, the fail-safe controller is arranged so that, when the system is restored after the failure, the fail-safe controller determines whether the target swivel angle is within a straight-ahead range that includes an angle corresponding to a straight-ahead direction of a vehicle, and if the fail-safe controller determines that the target swivel angle is within the straight-ahead range, the fail-safe controller deactivates the fail-safe operation to restart the swivel control.