Driving assistance control device, driving assistance method, and storage medium

A driving assistance method for a vehicle, the driving assistance method comprising:

• performing driving assistance including deceleration and stop control for decelerating the vehicle and maintaining the vehicle in a stopped state in response to determination that a driver of the vehicle is in an abnormal state in which the driver has difficulty in continuing to drive the vehicle;
• stopping, when a permitted stopping and parking area along a roadside on a front passenger seat side of the vehicle is present on a road while the driving assistance is being performed, the vehicle in the permitted stopping and parking area with a certain space in a vehicle width direction between the vehicle and the roadside;
• and
• setting, when a passenger is present in the vehicle, the space to be wider compared to when the passenger is not present in the vehicle.

A non-transitory storage medium storing a computer program that causes a computer to execute:

• performing driving assistance including deceleration and stop control for decelerating a vehicle and maintaining the vehicle in a stopped state in response to determination that a driver of the vehicle is in an abnormal state in which the driver has difficulty in continuing to drive the vehicle;
• stopping, when a permitted stopping and parking area along a roadside on a front passenger seat side of the vehicle is present on a road while the driving assistance is being performed, the vehicle in the permitted stopping and parking area with a certain space in a vehicle width direction between the vehicle and the roadside;
• and
• setting, when a passenger is present in the vehicle, the space to be wider compared to when the passenger is not present in the vehicle.