VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE

A vehicle control device for controlling a vehicle, the vehicle control device being configured to switch between automatic driving and manual driving of the vehicle, learn driving characteristics during the manual driving, and reflect a learned value of the driving characteristics in control during the automatic driving. Further, the vehicle control device controls the vehicle in a manner that, in the learned value of the driving characteristics, a state of an occupant other than a driver during the manual driving is in association with the driving characteristics.