Self-driving car

Self-driving car

PC Magazine defined a self-driving car as "a computer-controlled car that drives itself".^[64] The Union of Concerned Scientists used "cars or trucks in which human drivers are never required to take control to safely operate the vehicle. Also known as autonomous or 'driverless' cars, they combine sensors and software to control, navigate, and drive the vehicle."^[65]

The British Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 law defines a vehicle as "driving itself" if the vehicle "is operating in a mode in which it is not being controlled, and does not need to be monitored, by an individual".^[66]

Another British definition adopts "Self-driving vehicles are vehicles that can safely and lawfully drive themselves."^[67]

British definitions

On 8 November was introduced in the British Parliament a bill to "Regulate the use of automated vehicles on roads and in other public places; and to make other provision in relation to vehicle automation".^[63]

self-driving capability

Chapter 1 part1 of this automated vehicle bill starts by defining self-driving capability.^[63] It states that "A vehicle "satisfies the self-driving test" if it is designed or adapted with the intention that a feature of the vehicle will allow it to travel autonomously, and it is capable of doing so, by means of that feature, safely and legally." Those words are also defined: travel autonomously, safely and legally:

travels "autonomously"

A vehicle travels "autonomously" if it is being controlled not by an individual but by equipment of the vehicle, and neither the vehicle nor its surroundings are being monitored by an individual with a view to immediate intervention in the driving of the vehicle.

control

References to "control" of a vehicle are to control of the motion of the vehicle.

"safely"

if it travels to an acceptably safe standard, and

"legally"

if it travels with an acceptably low risk of committing a traffic infraction.^[63]

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