Texas Occupations Code - OCC § 2402.005. Applicability to Automated Motor Vehicles

(a) A corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, or other entity that, for compensation, enables a passenger to prearrange a ride in an automated motor vehicle through the entity's digital network is a transportation network company and is subject to the requirements of this chapter, except as otherwise provided by this section.

(b) A transportation network company holding a permit under this chapter may use automated motor vehicles owned by the company or operated under a contract with the company to provide digitally prearranged rides through the company's digital network.

(c) A reference in this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter to a "driver" includes an automated motor vehicle, except that a provision of this chapter or a rule adopted under this chapter that by its nature reasonably applies only to a human driver does not apply to an automated motor vehicle operating with the automated driving system engaged.