CONTROLLING A VEHICLE

Disclosed is a vehicle 10 including a sensor unit 310 configured to sense infrared light emitted from one or more areas inside the vehicle, a blocking unit 350 located between the sensor unit and the one or more areas inside the vehicle 10 and a controller 180 configured to control at least one of the blocking unit or the sensor unit so as to vary an amount of infrared light that the sensor unit is able to receive through the blocking unit from the one or more areas inside the vehicle and determine, based on a variation in the amount of infrared light received by the sensor unit, whether or not a living body is present inside the vehicle.