Integrated vehicle control system

An integrated vehicle control system comprising a plurality of networks connecting a plurality of electronic control apparatuses via a plurality of communication lines to communicate with each other, each network being provided for one of a plurality of functions of a vehicle,

• wherein one electronic control apparatus connected to each of said plurality of communication lines of said plurality of networks is a vehicle overall control apparatus for transmitting operation directives to other electronic control apparatuses, each functioning as an individual control apparatus of said each network, to cause respective individual control apparatuses to operate according to said operation directives, thereby realizing a collective control of said functions of said each network,
• said vehicle overall control apparatus determines said operation directives supplied to said individual control apparatuses based on information obtained via said communication lines from said individual control apparatuses, and executes abnormality detection processing for detecting an abnormality occurring in the integrated vehicle control system, and
• said vehicle overall control apparatus executes gateway processing by selecting information necessary for other network from information received via said communication lines and transmitting the selected information via a communication line of a corresponding network, thereby allowing mutual exchange of information between individual control apparatuses of different networks.