Device and Method for Controlling Vehicle

Disclosed is a vehicle control device including at least one sensor, a controller, and memory. The vehicle control device acquires, using the at least one sensor, information about at least one of: a lane in which the vehicle is traveling, or a guardrail adjacent to the vehicle, determines, based on the information, whether a travel direction of the vehicle corresponds to at least one of the lane or the guardrail, and corrects the travel direction of the vehicle based on a determination that the travel direction does not correspond to at least one of the lane or the guardrail.