Vehicle control device

A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle control device being configured to switch between automatic driving and manual driving of the vehicle, learn driving characteristics during the manual driving, and reflect a learned value of the driving characteristics in control during the automatic driving, wherein

• the vehicle control device controls the vehicle in a manner that, in the learned value of the driving characteristics, a state of an occupant other than a driver during the manual driving is in association with the driving characteristics,
• the state of the occupant other than the driver during the manual driving includes at least presence or absence of the occupant other than the driver,
• an in-vehicle state in which only the driver is present is set as a first in-vehicle state, and an in-vehicle state in which the occupant other than the driver is also present is set as a second in-vehicle state,
• the learned value of the driving characteristics is set in such a manner that the second in-vehicle state has a slower driving characteristics than the first in-vehicle state,
• in each of a first driving characteristics and a second driving characteristics, the first driving characteristics corresponding to the learned value of the driving characteristics obtained by learning in the first in-vehicle state during the manual driving, the second driving characteristics corresponding to the learned value of the driving characteristics obtained by learning in the second in-vehicle state during the manual driving, degrees of steepness and slowness for a plurality of items are set to a closest level among a plurality of preset levels,
• the plurality of preset levels comprise a first level, a second level, and third level, the first level having a largest degree of steepness and slowness and the third level having a smallest degree of steepness and slowness,
• a psychological state of the driver and a psychological state of the occupant other than a driver is further in association with the learned value of the driving characteristics, the psychological state, and
• the psychological state of the driver or the psychological state of the occupant other than the driver is based on information that is read from a face of the driver or a face of the occupant other than a driver by a sensor group.