Vehicle control device
AssigneeToyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYusuke Nakade, Atsushi Kamada
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Abstract
A vehicle control device having a shift-by-wire system that switches a driving range of a vehicle transmission by inputting a range switching signal to a shift switching device, includes: an abnormality detecting means that detects an abnormality that the shift switching device cannot switch the driving range, of the shift-by-wire system; and a driving force suppressing means that suppresses a driving force of a vehicle when an abnormality is detected in the shift-by-wire system and when a vehicle stop is predicted, and the driving force suppressing means switching a gear stage of the vehicle transmission to a higher-speed gear stage.
Claims8
A vehicle control device having a shift-by-wire system that switches a driving range of a vehicle transmission by inputting a range switching signal to a shift switching device, comprising:
- an abnormality detecting portion configured to detect an abnormality that the shift switching device cannot switch the driving range, of the shift-by-wire system;
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- a driving force suppressing portion configured to suppress a driving force of a vehicle when an abnormality is detected in the shift-by-wire system and when a vehicle stop is predicted, and
- the driving force suppressing portion switching a gear stage of the vehicle transmission to a higher-speed gear stage.
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