Natural language processing analysis of legal requirements

A system for parameterizing requirements for an autonomous vehicle, comprising:

• a hardware platform comprising a processor circuit and a memory;
• instructions encoded within the memory to instruct the processor circuit to:
• receive a first compliance requirement from a first jurisdiction;
• receive a second compliance requirement from a second jurisdiction;
• apply a machine learning algorithm to the first and second compliance requirements to compute a distance between the first and second compliance requirements;
• generate an autonomous vehicle parameter based on the computed distance between the first and second compliance requirements;
• and
• instruct the autonomous vehicle to modify a driving behavior in accordance with the generated autonomous vehicle parameter;
• and
• the autonomous vehicle, the autonomous vehicle comprising an onboard computer configured to:
• navigate the autonomous vehicle to drive along a roadway, including performing the modified driving behavior in accordance with the generated autonomous vehicle parameter.

One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable storage media having stored thereon instructions executable on one or more processors, the instructions to instruct the one or more processors to:

• operate an autonomous vehicle to drive along a roadway;
• apply natural language processing (NLP) to a first legal requirement from a first jurisdiction;
• apply NLP to a second legal requirement from a second jurisdiction;
• compute a distance between the first and second legal requirements according to results of the NLP;
• assign the first and second legal requirements to a common subject matter category according to the distance;
• build a functional model for the common subject matter category based on the results of the NLP and the computed distance between the first and second legal requirements;
• and
• instruct an autonomous vehicle controller of the autonomous vehicle to modify a driving behavior in accordance with the functional model.