Vehicle control device, vehicle control method, and storage medium

Abstract

A vehicle control device (100) of an embodiment includes a moving object recognition unit (131) configured to recognize a moving object that is crossing or is estimated to be about to cross a road on which a vehicle is traveling in a traveling direction of the vehicle, a specifying unit (132) configured to specify an area in which the vehicle is traveling, and avoidance control units (133, 134, 135, 142, 144, and 160) configured to avoid contact with a moving object recognized by the moving object recognition unit by controlling one or both of steering and/or acceleration and deceleration of the vehicle without depending on an operation of a driver of the vehicle, and to change an operation condition of the avoidance control on the basis of an area specified by the specifying unit.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.