Patent attributes
A problem to be addressed by the present invention is to obtain a vehicle control device which, while alleviating an excessive computation load, is capable of appropriately ascertaining an external environment. This vehicle control device 01 comprises an other vehicle information acquisition unit 02 which acquires information of another vehicle by communication, and an exterior recognition unit 03 which carries out recognition of the exterior of a host vehicle by sensing. The exterior recognition unit 03 senses an other vehicle vicinity space in the vicinity of the other vehicle on the basis of the information of the other vehicle which is acquired by the other vehicle information acquisition unit 02.