Singapore legislation
Regulation 6
Regulation 6
Exemption for individual who follows and takes manual control of specified vehicle
Subregulation 1
Section 16(1)(b) or 17(1) of the Act does not apply to an individual who takes manual control, under all of the following conditions, of a specified vehicle that has not complied with the specified assessments and is moving on a footpath or shared path (as the case may be) within a specified area:
the individual is authorised by Chye Thiam to follow the vehicle while it is moving on the specified path, in order to —
monitor the vehicle’s movements and its surroundings; and
take manual control of the vehicle when there is a failure of its autonomous system or any other emergency that requires immediate action;
the taking of manual control of the vehicle is necessitated by such failure or emergency;
the common conditions in paragraph 7 are satisfied.
Subregulation 2
The specified assessments mentioned in sub‑paragraph (1) are —
the assessment known as the Deployment Readiness Assessment; and
any other assessment required by the Authority and made known to Chye Thiam,under the revised Autonomous Vehicles on Public Paths assessment framework that is jointly administered by the Centre of Excellence for Testing & Research of Autonomous Vehicles — NTU (CETRAN) and the Authority.