Version 5.0, Release date: April 2023
Definition: User in a vehicle who has no role in the operation of that vehicle.
NOTE 1 This definition is adapted from SAE J3016 (2021).
NOTE 2 A passenger can be an occupant of a no-user-in-charge vehicle or an additional occupant of a vehicle where another occupant is either the user-in-charge in an automated vehicle or at the controls of a conventional vehicle.
Previous version:
Version 4, Release date: March 2022
Definition: User in a vehicle who has no role in the operation of that vehicle.
NOTE 1 This definition is adapted from SAE J3016 (2021).
NOTE 2 A passenger can be an occupant of a non-user-in-charge vehicle or an additional occupant of a vehicle where another occupant is either the user-in-charge in an automated vehicle or at the controls of a conventional vehicle.