Provided are a driving control apparatus and method, and a non-instantaneous recording medium. The driving control apparatus includes a memory and a circuit, the circuit performs operations during operation, including storing an object occurrence mapping of an occurrence region of a specified possibly occurring object in the memory; detecting the object included in a shot image obtained in the driving direction of a shooting vehicle; switching to a manual driving mode of manually driving the vehicle by a driver from an automatic driving mode of automatically driving the vehicle based on a detection result of the object and the object occurrence mapping; and controlling the driving of the vehicle through the switched manual driving mode.