Glossary
Searchable terminology from accessibility, web standards, and related fields.
8 results found in Autonomy.
- Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)
- A family of in-vehicle technologies that partially automate driving tasks — adaptive cruise control, lane-keeping, automatic emergency braking, parking assistance, blind-spot monitoring — while a huma…
- Automation Transparency (AI Transparency (Automation), Transparent Automation)
- The degree to which an automated or autonomous system communicates its current state, intent, and reasoning to the humans who depend on it. In autonomous transport, transparency includes cues such as …
- Autonomous Ferry (Self-Driving Ferry, Autonomous Passenger Ferry)
- A waterborne passenger vessel that navigates, docks, and avoids obstacles without a human pilot, typically using a sensor suite (cameras, radar, LiDAR, ultrasonic, IMU, GNSS) and a shore-based supervi…
- Autonomous Public Transport (Autonomous Public Transit, Driverless Public Transport)
- Public-transport services — buses, shuttles, ferries, trams — operated wholly or partly by self-driving technology, typically supervised remotely rather than by an onboard driver. From an accessibilit…
- Driverless Shuttle (Autonomous Shuttle, Self-Driving Shuttle)
- A small, slow-speed, self-driving bus or minibus — typically deployed on fixed routes in campuses, airports, or urban trials — that operates without an onboard driver, often with a remote supervisor. …
- Financial Autonomy (Financial Independence, Financial Self-Determination)
- The ability of a person to make and enact their own financial decisions — earning, saving, spending, and planning — consistent with their values and goals. For people with intellectual and development…
- Situational Trust (Situational Trust in Automation)
- A context-sensitive form of trust in an automated system that varies moment-to-moment based on perceived system performance, environment, and the user's own capacity to intervene. Unlike dispositional…
- Social Agency
- Social agency is the capacity to shape, initiate, and sustain one's social interactions - to contribute meaningfully to a group, express preferences, and influence shared activity. For people with cog…