Vehicle with occupant protection function

A vehicle with an occupant protection function, the vehicle comprising:

• an occupant protection device provided in the vehicle and configured to perform protection operation of supporting, with a seatbelt, an occupant in the vehicle upon collision of the vehicle;
• and
• an occupant monitoring device provided in the vehicle and configured to monitor the occupant in the vehicle, the occupant monitoring device being configured to determine whether the occupant in the vehicle is aware of the collision of the vehicle to occur, the occupant protection device being configured to, in a case where the occupant monitoring device determines that the occupant is unaware of the collision of the vehicle to occur, increase tension of the seatbelt gradually as compared with a case where the occupant monitoring device determines that the occupant is aware of the collision, wherein
• the occupant monitoring device comprises an imaging device configured to capture an image of the occupant and to determine whether the occupant in the vehicle is aware of the collision of the vehicle to occur on a basis of a line-of-sight direction of the occupant determined from the image,
• the occupant monitoring device compares an input direction of impact due to the collision with the line-of-sight direction and when the comparison indicates that an angular difference is less than a predetermined angular difference, the occupant monitoring device determines that the occupant is aware of the collision.