Definition and categorization Sample Clauses

Definition and categorization. In the Robolaw project as a whole, a broad definition of robotics is used so as to encompass any interesting technologies. For the purpose of this deliverable, an automated car is characterized as having the capabilities of sensing, planning and acting. In this way automated cars are distinguished from the currently available technologies of driver assistance (such as cruise control). The State of Nevada interprets ‘the term “autonomous vehicle” to exclude a vehicle enabled with a safety system or driver assistance system, including, without limitation, a system to provide electronic blind spot assistance, crash avoidance, emergency braking, parking assistance, adaptive cruise control, lane keep assistance, lane departure warnings and traffic jam and queuing assistance, unless the vehicle is also enabled with artificial intelligence and technology that allows the vehicle to carry out all the mechanical operations of driving without the active control or continuous monitoring of a natural person’. This definition is somewhat narrower than the one we envisage. It appears to exclude all technologies that function autonomously, but require the driver to monitor the functioning of the system continuously and to be able to intervene immediately. With these systems the human driver is apparently fully responsible. And in this respect they exhibit no legally relevant difference to human driven cars.