Patent attributes
A vehicle control device includes a recognizer which recognizes objects around a host vehicle, a determiner which determines whether a speed of a preceding vehicle present ahead of the host vehicle in a host lane in which the host vehicle is present among one or more objects recognized by the recognizer is less than a predetermined speed and determines whether predetermined conditions with respect to conditions ahead of the preceding vehicle are satisfied when it is determined that the speed of the preceding vehicle is less than the predetermined speed, and a driving controller which causes the host vehicle to overtake at least the preceding vehicle by controlling the speed and steering of the host vehicle when the determiner determines that the predetermined conditions are satisfied.
