Patent ID: 8170792

Claim:
A vehicle control device which activates a camber angle adjustment device which adjusts a camber angle of a wheel to control the camber angle of the wheel, comprising: activation control means for controlling an activation state of the camber angle adjustment device, wherein the wheel includes a first tread and a second tread aligned in a width direction of the wheel with respect to the first tread and arranged on an inside or an outside of the vehicle, wherein the first tread and the second tread are configured to have characteristics different from each other such that the first tread is configured to have a characteristic of a higher grip force compared to the second tread and the second tread is configured to have a characteristic of a smaller rolling resistance compared to the first tread, wherein the activation control means includes: vicinity information acquisition means for acquiring vicinity information on a vicinity of the vehicle; characteristic determination means for determining a characteristic necessary for the wheel, based on the vicinity information acquired by the vicinity information acquisition means, and camber angle change means for activating the camber angle adjustment device to change the camber angle of the wheel such that the wheel exhibits the characteristic determined by the characteristic determination means; and wherein the vicinity information acquisition means includes: current position detection means for detecting a current position of the vehicle: map data storage means for storing map data; and situation acquisition means for acquiring a situation of a route that the vehicle is to follow as the vicinity information based on the map data stored in the map data storage means and the current position of the vehicle detected by the current position detection means.