VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE SYSTEM, AND CONTROL METHOD

摘要

A vehicle control device that is mounted on a vehicle including an engine has a portable key existence checking part that checks whether a portable key that can remotely control the vehicle exists in the vehicle. The portable key existence checking part stops the checking whether the portable key exists in the vehicle, when the portable key existence checking part detects an operation to cause the engine to start automatically during the checking whether the portable key exists in the vehicle, in an idling stop/start operation in which the engine is caused to stop automatically when a predetermined automatic stopping condition holds while the engine is caused to start automatically when a predetermined automatic starting condition holds.