Approach to operation misapplications for vehicles

An apparatus for mitigating an operation misapplication of a vehicle, the apparatus comprising:

• at least one memory;
• and
• at least one processor coupled to the at least one memory, the processor configured to:
• determine an operation misapplication feature is applicable to a vehicle based on an operational design domain (ODD) context associated with the vehicle matching at least one of a plurality of predetermined ODDs;
• determine, based on a comparison of characteristics of a driver of the vehicle to a plurality of predetermined driver state patterns, a first state of the driver;
• identify, based on a comparison of the first state of the driver to a previously determined state of the driver, a threshold value;
• determine an operation misapplication of the vehicle is a first type of operation misapplication based on the first state of the driver and the threshold value;
• and
• actuate the vehicle to mitigate the operation misapplication based on determining the operation misapplication is the first type of operation misapplication.