Tennessee § 55-30-102 - Chapter definitions.
Full text of Tennessee Tennessee Code Annotated § 55-30-102 — Chapter definitions., with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 55-30-102. Chapter definitions.
As used in this chapter: “Automated driving system” or “ADS” means technology installed on a motor vehicle that has the capability to drive the vehicle on which the technology is installed in high or full automation mode, without any supervision by a human operator, with specific driving mode performance by the automated driving system of all aspects of the dynamic driving task that can be managed by a human driver, including the ability to automatically bring the motor vehicle into a minimal risk condition in the event of a critical vehicle or system failure or other emergency event; “Automated-driving-system-operated vehicle” or “ADS-operated vehicle” means a vehicle equipped with an automated driving system; “Department” means the department of revenue; “Dynamic driving task” means all of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic. “Dynamic driving task” does not include strategic functions, such as route selection and scheduling; and “Minimal risk condition” means a low-risk operating mode in which an ADS-operated vehicle when the ADS is engaged achieves a reasonably safe state upon experiencing a failure of the vehicle's ADS that renders the vehicle unable to perform the entire dynamic driving task. Acts 2017, ch. 474, § 16. Code Commission Notes. Acts 2017, ch. 474, § 16 enacted a new chapter 54, §§ 55-54-101 — 55-54-108 , but the chapter has been redesignated as chapter 30, §§ 55-30-101 — 55-30-108 by authority of the Code Commission.
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