Intelligent vehicle systems in the light of the technical regulations

Nowadays more and more technical systems will directly interfere with the everyday life of people, sometimes this can cause conflicts, which is caused by the intelligence given to the machine. The humans will not give only command to the machine but also the machine can decide itself how to handle a given situation. What is important that in this relationship the intelligent machine will not cause uncertain or dangerous situations. A very important field, where this problem is thoroughly investigated is the field of intelligent vehicle system. This paper gives an insight to the legislation process of the electronic stability control system and other, similar intelligent vehicle systems. Particulary, how the international legislation bodies (primarily the ECE-UN working party 29) approach this problem on example of the mentioned systems.