Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) Without limiting the circumstances in which a person is driving a motor vehicle, a person who is steering a motor vehicle which is being towed by another motor vehicle is to be taken to be driving the towed motor vehicle for the purposes of this Act, whether or not the towed motor vehicle has any other means of propulsion and whether or not the person steering it has any control over its means of propulsion.
S. 3AB(2) inserted by No. 8/2018 s. 5.
(2) Without limiting the circumstances in which a person is driving an automated vehicle for which an ADS permit is in force—
(a) the ADS permit holder is to be taken to be driving the vehicle for the purposes of this Act at any time when the vehicle is operating in automated mode, whether or not at that time a vehicle supervisor is assigned by the ADS permit holder to perform duties as a vehicle supervisor in relation to the vehicle; and
(b) a vehicle supervisor who is assigned by the ADS permit holder to perform duties as a vehicle supervisor in relation to the vehicle is to be taken to be driving the vehicle for the purposes of this Act at any time when the vehicle is operating other than in automated mode.
S. 3AB(3) inserted by No. 8/2018 s. 5.
(3) Without limiting the circumstances in which a person is driving an automated vehicle for which there is not an ADS permit in force, any of the following persons is to be taken to be driving the vehicle for the purposes of this Act, even if the vehicle is operating in automated mode—
(a) a person who is seated in the driver seat at a time when the vehicle is being used on a highway;
(b) a person who has any control over the performance of the dynamic driving task at a time when the vehicle is being used on a highway.
S. 3AC inserted by No. 14/2007 s. 11.