VEHICLE CONTROL APPARATUS

A vehicle control apparatus comprises: a surrounding condition displaying device capable of displaying an image of vehicle surrounding conditions on a monitor inside a vehicle; a driver monitoring device that obtains driver's information including a direction of a line of sight of a driver and a face direction of the driver; and a controller configured to be able to perform a start moving suppression control to suppress a start moving of the vehicle when a mismatch condition is occurring where a start moving direction inferred based on a shift range of the vehicle disagrees with the face direction of the driver. Furthermore, even when the mismatch condition is occurring, the controller does not perform the start moving suppression control, if the direction of the line of sight of the driver is toward the monitor and the monitor is displaying the image of vehicle surrounding conditions.