SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SWITCHING CONTROL OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE

A method of switching a control right according to a driving mode of a vehicle in a control right switching system operated by at least one processor is provided. Upon receiving a command to switch a driving mode of a vehicle being in any one driving mode of a manual driving mode or an autonomous driving mode, a torque value of a control unit that controls the vehicle according to a current driving mode of the vehicle is initialized. Furthermore, after transferring a driving mode control right of the vehicle from a vehicle to a driver or from the driver to the vehicle by increasing or reducing a vehicle control right to control the vehicle, whether to switch the driving mode is determined through monitoring information obtained by the control unit in the vehicle whose driving mode was switched during a predetermined time period.