Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes > Chapter 242 - Automated Vehicle Testing and Deployment Pilot Program

• ADS: means the hardware and software that are collectively capable of performing all aspects of the dynamic driving task within its operational design domain, if any, including achieving a minimal risk condition, without any intervention or supervision by a conventional human driver. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• ADS-equipped vehicle: means a vehicle equipped with an automated driving system. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Conventional human driver: means a natural person who manually engages in-vehicle braking, accelerating, steering, and transmission gear selection input devices in order to operate a vehicle. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Driverless capable vehicle: means a vehicle equipped with an automated driving system capable of performing all aspects of the dynamic driving task within its operational design domain, if any, including achieving a minimal risk condition, without any intervention or supervision by a conventional human driver. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Driverless operation: means a mode of ADS-equipped vehicle operation in which either no on-board user is present, or in which on-board users who are present are not conventional human drivers. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Dynamic driving task: means all of the real-time operational and tactical functions required to operate a vehicle in on-road traffic within its specific operational design domain, if any, excluding the strategic functions such as trip scheduling and selection of destinations and waypoints. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• following: when used by way of reference to any section of these laws, shall mean the section next preceding or following that in which such reference is made, unless some other is expressly designated. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:13
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Minimal risk condition: means a reasonably safe state to which an automated driving system brings an ADS-equipped vehicle upon experiencing a performance-relevant failure of the vehicle's automated driving system that renders the automated driving system unable to perform the entire dynamic driving task, such as bringing the vehicle to a complete stop and activating the hazard lamps. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• On-demand driverless capable vehicle network: means a transportation service network that uses a software application or other digital means to dispatch driverless capable vehicles for purposes of transporting persons or goods, including for-hire transportation, transportation for compensation, and public transportation. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Operational design domain: means a description of the specific operating domain in which an automated driving system is designed to properly operate, including but not limited to roadway types, speed range, environmental conditions such as weather or time of day, and other domain constraints. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• person: may extend and be applied to bodies corporate and politic as well as to individuals. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:9
• petitioner: shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• road: shall include all bridges thereon. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:26
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4
• Test driver: means a trained employee, contractor, or other person who is acting as an agent of the testing entity while operating the testing entity's ADS-equipped vehicles that are part of the automated vehicle testing pilot program. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• Testing entity: means an individual, company, college or university, nonprofit, or other organization involved with the design or testing of automated vehicle technologies. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 242:1
• United States: shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4