Florida Senate - 2015                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for SB 1184
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2015           .                                
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       Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, Tourism, and
       Economic Development (Brandes) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
    2  
    3         Between lines 104 and 105
    4  insert:
    5         Section 2. Present subsection (90) of section 316.003,
    6  Florida Statutes, is amended, present subsections (91), (92),
    7  and (93) of that section are redesignated as subsections (93),
    8  (95), and (96), respectively, and new subsections (90) and (92)
    9  are added to that section, to read:
   10         316.003 Definitions.—The following words and phrases, when
   11  used in this chapter, shall have the meanings respectively
   12  ascribed to them in this section, except where the context
   13  otherwise requires:
   14         (90) AUTONOMOUS TECHNOLOGY.—Technology installed on a motor
   15  vehicle which has the capability to drive the vehicle on which
   16  the technology is installed without the active control of or
   17  monitoring by a human operator.
   18         (91)(90) AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE.—Any vehicle equipped with
   19  autonomous technology. The term “autonomous technology” means
   20  technology installed on a motor vehicle that has the capability
   21  to drive the vehicle on which the technology is installed
   22  without the active control or monitoring by a human operator.
   23  The term excludes a motor vehicle enabled with active safety
   24  systems or driver assistance systems, including, without
   25  limitation, a system to provide electronic blind spot
   26  assistance, crash avoidance, emergency braking, parking
   27  assistance, adaptive cruise control, lane keep assistance, lane
   28  departure warning, or traffic jam and queuing assistant, unless
   29  any such system alone or in combination with other systems
   30  enables the vehicle on which the technology is installed to
   31  drive without the active control or monitoring by a human
   32  operator.
   33         (92) DRIVER-ASSISTIVE TRUCK PLATOONING TECHNOLOGY.—Vehicle
   34  automation technology that integrates sensor array, wireless
   35  communications, vehicle controls, and specialized software to
   36  synchronize acceleration and braking between up to two truck
   37  tractor-semitrailer combinations, while leaving each vehicle’s
   38  steering control and systems command in the control of the
   39  vehicle’s driver.
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   41  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   42  And the title is amended as follows:
   43         Delete line 25
   44  and insert:
   45         s. 316.003, F.S.; defining and redefining terms;
   46         amendment s. 316.0776, F.S.; prohibiting a notice of
   47         violation