CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2019-135286 filed on Jul. 23, 2019, the disclosure of which is incorporated by reference herein.

BACKGROUND

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to a vehicle control system, a vehicle controller device and a vehicle control method.

Related Art

For privacy protection reasons, it is desirable for the address of a delivery site or the like not to be known to a delivery agent.

A conceivable solution to issues such as driver shortages is to utilize autonomous driving or remotely operated driving for deliveries (for example, see the specification of U.S. Pat. No. 9,964,948).

When delivering by autonomous driving, the delivery agent (driver) does not go to the delivery site, offering superior privacy protection compared to cases in which the delivery agent delivers items directly.

However, there is still a need to input a delivery site address in the case of autonomous driving, which could result in the delivery site address being leaked to the delivery agent. There is therefore room for improvement in this respect.

SUMMARY

An aspect is a vehicle control system that includes: a preliminary destination/area setting section configured to set a preliminary destination or a preliminary destination area toward which a vehicle heads in an autonomously driven state; a travel control section configured to cause the vehicle to travel in the autonomously driven state to the preliminary destination or the preliminary destination area set by the preliminary destination/area setting section; a position information acquisition section configured to acquire position information for the vehicle; and a switchover section configured to switch a driving state of the vehicle from the autonomously driven state to a manually driven state or a remotely operated driven state when the vehicle has been detected to have arrived at the preliminary destination or in the preliminary destination area based on the position information.

