VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

The invention provides a vehicle control device, a vehicle control method, and a recording medium. In a vehicle control device for an autonomous vehicle that performs autonomous travel on the basis of an operation command, a gesture image of a person located around the autonomous vehicle is acquired, and a stored reference gesture image and the acquired gesture image are compared. At this time, when it is determined that a gesture of a person located around the autonomous vehicle is a gesture requesting the autonomous vehicle to stop, it is determined whether or not a disaster has occurred, and when it is determined that a disaster has occurred, the autonomous vehicle is stopped around the person requesting the autonomous vehicle to stop. 提供一种车辆控制装置、车辆控制方法以及记录介质。在基于运行指令进行自主行驶的自动驾驶车辆的车辆控制装置中，取得位于自动驾驶车辆的周围的人的手势图像，所存储的基准手势图像和所取得的手势图像被进行对照。此时，在判别为位于自动驾驶车辆的周围的人的手势是要求自动驾驶车辆停止的手势时，判定是否发生了灾害，在判定为发生了灾害时，使得自动驾驶车辆停在要求自动驾驶车辆停止的人的周围。