Vehicle seat control apparatus

A vehicle seat control apparatus that is equipped in a vehicle capable of travelling by automated driving in accordance with a relative level of driving automation and that is configured to set a position and attitude of a seat of the vehicle to a driving position in low automated driving that is low in the level and to set the position and attitude of the seat to a relaxing position in high automated driving that is high in the level, the vehicle seat control apparatus comprising:

• an alertness detecting device;
• a computation control device;
• and
• a seat driving device, wherein
• the alertness detecting device is configured to detect an alertness level of a driver to be seated on the seat,
• the computation control device is configured to drive the seat driving device to perform an alerting operation in a case where the alertness level of the driver detected by the alertness detecting device is lower than a predetermined level when driving of the vehicle transitions from the high automated driving to the low automated driving, and
• the seat driving device is configured to, in response to an instruction from the computation control device in the alerting operation, displace the seat at a higher speed than at a transition from the driving position to the relaxing position.