self-driving adjective 1noun 1 adjective1 •Of a motor vehicle: equipped with sensors and computer technology to allow it to drive without a human operator.Computer vision is used in image recognition systems and also in self-driving technologies. — 2019 noun1 •The ability of a motor vehicle to drive itself without a human operator; the technology that enables this.Self-driving will re-arrange the economic landscape of the world, like the invention of the automobile did. — 2017