frozen robot syndrome

noun

The situation in which an automated system, typically a driverless car, experiences something that it has not been programmed to expect, and either fails to react to the situation or simply halts.

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Meanings

nounfrozen robot syndrome (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe situation in which an automated system, typically a driverless car, experiences something that it has not been programmed to expect, and either fails to react to the situation or simply halts.

    For quotations using this term, see Citations:frozen robot syndrome.

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