VEHICLE CONTROL DEVICE, VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

A vehicle control device recognizing a runway area in which a vehicle is to travel, generating a target trajectory such that the target trajectory follows a center of the recognized runway area in a lateral direction, causing the vehicle to travel along the target trajectory, and changing a drive mode of the vehicle from a second drive mode to a first drive mode in a case in which a distance between the center and a reference point of the vehicle is equal to or longer than a reference distance.