VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

A vehicle control device 300 includes an information acquisition unit 311 acquiring information on a frontward image including the traveling road surface of a host vehicle M; a recognition unit 140 recognizing the traveling environment of the host vehicle based on the frontward image acquired by the information acquisition unit; and an autonomous driving control unit 315 performing control of the autonomous driving including at least one of a speed control and a steering control of the host vehicle based on the traveling environment recognized by the recognition unit, wherein the recognition unit includes an extraction unit 313 extracting a defective image in the frontward image. The autonomous driving control unit limits functions related to the defective image among the plurality of functions involved in the autonomous driving when the defective image is extracted by the extraction unit. Therefore, functions related to automatic driving can be continued as much as possible even in a case where the traveling