Patent ID: 8265841

Claim:
A shift control device including: shift-intention detecting means that electrically detects a driver's shift-intention; a shift mechanism to be mechanically displaced to a plurality of shift positions by shift drive means electrically controlled based on the driver's shift-intention; noncontact type first positional information detecting means that detects an absolute positional information of a mechanical displacement of the shift mechanism; and shift position determining means that determines the shift position in accordance with a correlation preliminarily determined in terms of the absolute positional information and the plurality of shift positions based on the absolute positional information; the shift control device comprising: error determining means that determines a persistent error existed in the absolute positional information; and correcting means that corrects either one of the correlation preliminarily determined in terms of the absolute positional information and the plurality of shift positions, and the absolute positional information, when existence of the persistent error in the absolute positional information is determined.