VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS AND VEHICLE CONTROL METHOD

Disclosed are a vehicle control apparatus and a vehicle control method. The vehicle control apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes an input unit to receive current lane information, current traffic sign information, and current driver behavior information photographed by a photographing apparatus, a determination unit to determine whether a vehicle is in an inappropriate driving pattern based on the inputted current lane information and the current traffic sign information and to determine whether a driver is in a driver carelessness state based on the inputted current driver behavior information, and a controller to transmit a warning command to a warning apparatus so that the warning apparatus warns the driver that the driver is currently in a careless driving state if the vehicle is in the inappropriate driving pattern and the driver is in the driver carelessness state.