Driving takeover control apparatus

A driving takeover control apparatus to be equipped in a vehicle capable of travelling by automated driving having a level and configured to control a driving takeover operation at a transition from high automated driving that is high in the level to low automated driving that is low in the level, the driving takeover control apparatus comprising:

• a driver operation device configured to be operated by a driver who drives the vehicle to steer the vehicle and adjust a vehicle speed of the vehicle;
• a vehicle driving device configured to steer the vehicle and adjust the vehicle speed in accordance with an amount of operation given to the driver operation device by the driver;
• an alertness detecting device configured to detect an alertness level of the driver at the transition from the high automated driving to the low automated driving;
• a computation control device configured to drive the output limiting device to perform an output limitation operation in a case where the alertness level of the driver detected by the alertness detecting device is lower than or equal to a certain level at the transition from the high automated driving to the low automated driving;
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• an output limiting device configured to, in response to an instruction from the computation control device in the output limitation operation, limit an output of the vehicle driving device with respect to the amount of operation given to the driver operation device by the driver.