Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

A vehicle control method of causing a computer to:

• acquire first information related to a curved road existing in a direction of advance of a vehicle;
• acquire second information including an acceleration operation amount of a driver of the vehicle;
• and
• perform notification control to notify the driver to adjust a speed of the vehicle to be equal to or lower than a target speed, which is based on the first information, refer the second information during execution of the notification control and stop the notification control when the acceleration operation amount has increased a predetermined value or more from a reference value, when the vehicle is traveling on a section which is from a predetermined distance before an entrance of the curved road until the entrance of the curved road or traveling on the curved road,
• wherein the reference value is set according to the acceleration operation amount when the notification control was started until a predetermined time elapses from the start of the notification control.

A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium in which a program is stored to cause a computer to:

• acquire first information related to a curved road existing in a direction of advance of a vehicle;
• acquire second information including an acceleration operation amount of a driver of the vehicle;
• perform notification control to notify the driver to adjust a speed of the vehicle to be equal to or lower than a target speed, which is based on the first information;
• and
• refer the second information during execution of the notification control and stop the notification control when the acceleration operation amount has increased a predetermined value or more from a reference value, when the vehicle is traveling on a section which is from a predetermined distance before an entrance of the curved road until the entrance of the curved road or traveling on the curved road,
• wherein the reference value is set according to the acceleration operation amount when the notification control was started until a predetermined time elapses from the start of the notification control.