Autonomous controller and method thereof

An autonomous controller comprising:

• a processor configured to control autonomous driving of a vehicle, calculate a safety area for a driver of the vehicle to able to keep eyes of the driver on a road, and determine conversion into an autonomous driving mode based on a current location of a seat of the driver, wherein the safety area includes information about at least one of a sliding location, a reclining angle, or a height of the seat of the driver, and wherein the processor is configured to calculate the safety area based on a location of the seat of the driver in response to determining, based on least one of a location of the vehicle in a lane, a distance from a forward vehicle, a change in vehicle speed, whether there is rapid deceleration or acceleration, or a face location of the driver, that the location of the seat of the driver is safe;
• a storage configured to store information about the safety area, data, and an algorithm run by the processor;
• and
• an interface configured to be controlled by the processor, and to output a state of the autonomous driving mode or a manual driving mode,
• wherein the processor is configured to:
• determine to convert the manual driving mode into the autonomous driving mode when the current location of the seat of the driver is within the safety area or when a request for the conversion into the autonomous driving mode is input while driving in the manual driving mode,
• when the current location of the seat of the driver is not within the safety area, move the current location of the seat of the driver into the safety area and convert the manual driving mode into the autonomous driving mode, and
• control the interface to notify the driver that it is impossible to convert the manual driving mode into the autonomous driving mode when it is impossible to move the current location of the seat of the driver into the safety area.