Information processing apparatus and information processing method

An information processing method executed by a computer, including:

• acquiring a presence or an absence of a predetermined request from a user to parked vehicles parked in a predetermined parking area in which a plurality of vehicles are parked,
• based upon a determination that the predetermined request from the user of the target vehicle has been acquired, identifying a target vehicle, which is a vehicle for which the predetermined request is made, among the parked vehicles;
• based upon the identification of the target vehicle, selecting a first vehicle that is parked around the target vehicle in the predetermined parking area;
• and
• issuing, based on the predetermined request to the target vehicle, a command to activate a first vehicle sensor of the first vehicle that was selected, wherein the first vehicle senor is configured to detect peripheral information of the first vehicle.