BACKGROUND

1. Field

The present disclosure relates to a data processing technology, and more particularly, to a technology of controlling a vehicle.

2. Description of the Related Art

There is a need to check a situation of the periphery of a vehicle for safe driving of the vehicle, and in some cases, a rear sensor sensing a state of a space behind the vehicle is mounted in the vehicle. In some cases, when a sensing range of a rear sensor is blocked by an object behind a vehicle, a control of displacing a lateral position of a host vehicle in order to decrease the blocked range is performed.

Patent Literature 1: Jpn. Pat. Appln. KOKAI Publication No. 2014-180986

In some cases such as traffic congestion, a two-wheeled vehicle runs through between slowing down vehicles and a lane dividing line (a centerline or the like). As described above, when the lateral position of the host vehicle is displaced, it is apprehended that the host vehicle comes into contact with a two-wheeled vehicle approaching by passing between a following vehicle and a lane dividing line.

SUMMARY

The present disclosure has been made in view of the above circumstances. An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technology of suitably controlling traveling of a vehicle.

In order to solve the above problems, according to one aspect of the present disclosure, a vehicle control device includes: a receiver structured to receive an image of a periphery of a host vehicle captured by an image capturing device; a detector structured to detect a lateral position of a following vehicle in the same lane as that in which the host vehicle travels, the following vehicle being reflected in the image acquired by the acquiring unit and traveling in the lane; and a decision circuitry structured to determine a lateral position of the host vehicle in the lane depending on the lateral position of the following vehicle detected by the detector.

It should be noted that an arbitrary combination of the constituent elements described above, and expressions of the present disclosure converted between a system, a method, a computer program, a recording medium in which a computer program is recorded, a vehicle mounted with the present device, and the like are also effective as aspects of the present disclosure.

