Patent attributes
A vehicle control device comprises a sensing section that senses a vehicle that is a candidate for alerting, and alert control section that, in a case in which the sensing section senses plural vehicles that are candidates for alerting, determines a recognition situation with respect to the plural candidates of alert sensed by the sensing section, by a recognition situation computing section and from a state of a driver that is detected by a state detecting section that detects a state of the driver, and carries out alert control with respect to a target of alert, which is a candidate having a highest priority among the plural candidates of alert for the determined recognition situation.