| CPC B62D 5/0463 (2013.01) [B62D 5/0409 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |

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1. A steering control device comprising a control circuit configured to control driving of a reaction force motor that generates steering reaction force applied to a steering wheel of a vehicle having a steer-by-wire steering system in which power transmission between the steering wheel and turning wheels of the vehicle is separated, wherein when a vehicle power source of the vehicle is turned on, the control circuit requests a vehicle control device of the vehicle that controls traveling of the vehicle to stop the traveling of the vehicle when the control circuit determines that information has been exchanged between the control circuit and the vehicle control device in a manner that does not follow a predetermined pattern.
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