Crime prevention system, crime prevention method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

A crime prevention method for providing a crime prevention service to a passenger getting off a vehicle that transports passengers, the crime prevention method comprising:

• evaluating whether or not a degree of safety of the passenger getting off the vehicle is equal to or higher than a predetermined level on a basis of a recognition result of a recognition sensor that recognizes an environment situation around the vehicle and recognizes persons including the passenger getting off the vehicle;
• in a case where the degree of safety is lower than the predetermined level, executing illumination control of irradiating a position of the passenger getting off the vehicle with illumination from an illumination device while the vehicle is kept stopped for a period set in accordance with the degree of safety;
• and
• terminating the illumination control in response to a predetermined termination condition being satisfied.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a crime prevention program that is configured to cause a computer to execute:

• evaluating whether or not a degree of safety of a passenger getting off the vehicle is equal to or higher than a predetermined level on a basis of a recognition result of a recognition sensor that recognizes an environment situation around the vehicle and recognizes persons including the passenger getting off the vehicle;
• in a case where the degree of safety is lower than the predetermined level, executing illumination control of irradiating a position of the passenger getting off the vehicle with illumination from an illumination device while the vehicle is kept stopped for a period set in accordance with the degree of safety;
• and
• terminating the illumination control in response to a predetermined termination condition being satisfied.