Control device

A control device for controlling a vehicle that includes an external sensor configured to acquire surrounding information on a host vehicle and a headlight configured to illuminate ahead of the host vehicle, the control device comprising:

• a processing circuitry configured to, when another vehicle traveling in an opposite direction to the host vehicle and having a possibility to collide with the host vehicle is detected in front of the host vehicle based on the surrounding information acquired by the external sensor, execute an out-of-vehicle notification using the headlight based on a distance between the host vehicle and the another vehicle, wherein
• when the another vehicle is detected in front of the host vehicle and a travel speed of the host vehicle is equal to or larger than a predetermined value, the processing circuitry executes the out-of-vehicle notification based on the distance between the host vehicle and the another vehicle,
• when the distance is equal to or smaller than a first threshold and equal to or larger than a second threshold that is smaller than the first threshold, the processing circuitry executes the out-of-vehicle notification, and
• when the distance is smaller than the second threshold, the processing circuitry does not execute the out-of-vehicle notification or executes the out-of-vehicle notification with a notification intensity lower than that when the distance is equal to or smaller than the first threshold and equal to or larger than the second threshold.