Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

A vehicle control method comprising:

• a computer that acquires situation information indicating a usage situation of in-vehicle equipment of an automatically driven vehicle;
• detecting a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on a basis of the situation information;
• controlling the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of a detection and for collection of the forgotten item by a rider of the automatically driven vehicle;
• acquiring information indicating a property of the rider of the automatically driven vehicle and changing a reference for detecting the forgotten item according to the acquired information indicating the property of the rider;
• predict alighting of the rider;
• and
• based on the predicting the rider is about to alight the automatically driven vehicle, instructing a discharge mechanism associated with an accommodation space to discharge the forgotten item accommodated in the accommodation space into a space in the automatically driven vehicle.

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium recording a vehicle control program causing an in-vehicle computer to:

• acquire situation information indicating a usage situation of in-vehicle equipment of an automatically driven vehicle;
• detect a forgotten item that is left in the automatically driven vehicle on a basis of the acquired situation information;
• control the automatically driven vehicle on the basis of a result of a detection,
• wherein the situation information comprises at least one of identification information related to a rider of the automatically driven vehicle, identification of the forgotten item, a boarding scheduled of the rider, or an alighting schedule of the rider;
• acquire information indicating a property of the rider of the automatically driven vehicle and to change a reference for detecting the forgotten item according to the acquired information indicating the property of the rider,
• predict alighting of the rider, and
• based on a prediction that the rider is about to alight the automatically driven vehicle, instruct a discharge mechanism associated with an accommodation space to discharge the forgotten item accommodated in the accommodation space into a space in the automatically driven vehicle.