Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, MAP INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

Abstract:

A vehicle control device including: a recognition unit configured to recognize a surrounding status of a vehicle; and a driving control unit configured to control one or both of a speed and steering of the vehicle. The driving control unit performs switching to a second driving state in which a driver has a higher degree of a monitoring obligation than in a first driving state in a case in which the vehicle is caused to travel in the first driving state in which the driver has a lower degree of the monitoring obligation among driving states of a plurality of types, and a recognition result acquired by the recognition unit satisfies a predetermined condition relating to the driving state. The vehicle control device further includes a map updating unit configured to update intrinsic map information on the basis of the recognition result acquired by the recognition unit in a case in which switching from the first driving state to the second driving state is performed by the driving control unit.