To provide a vehicle which achieves riding comfort and a stable traveling state by including a foolproof function which can autonomously correct a vehicle body attitude by the dead weight of a vehicle body and appropriately maintain the vehicle body attitude even when malfunction, failure or the like of a constituting member of the link mechanism occur by releasing the holding of a connection part for connecting a link mechanism and wheels contained by the vehicle body.
A vehicle which includes a vehicle body, a pair of rotatable wheels mounted in the vehicle body, an actuator device for tilting the vehicle body and a control device for controlling the vehicle body attitude by controlling the actuator device, is provided with a connection part for holding relative positions of the respective wheels with respect to the vehicle body. The control device releases the holding of the wheels by the connection part under a prescribed condition and changes the vehicle body attitude by the dead weight of the vehicle body.
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Kenji Kato
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