HANDOVER WITHOUT A MOMENT
Authority moves between human and machine while the task is still running.
01 DEFINITION
Condition in which authority between human and machine elements is reassigned mid-task, without a defined moment at which the reassignment is complete.
02 CONDITIONS
UNCERTAINTY
MISSING
Which side currently holds authority is not indicated.
TIME PRESSURE
SHORT
The window in which reassignment must be judged is narrow.
ERROR ASYMMETRY
SYMMETRIC
Handing over too early and too late carry comparable cost.
OPERATOR STATE
SUPERVISORY
The operator is supervising rather than executing.
03 WHERE IT APPEARS
ENERGYAutomatic control and manual intervention alternate within the same process.
MEDICALAn automatic regulating function and a clinician act on the same axis.
MANUFACTURINGAutonomous transport and human work overlap in one zone.
04 WHY THIS IS COMING
What stays unresolved is what holds authority during the change itself — naming a single instant makes the transfer a fiction the situation will not honour, and leaving it unnamed leaves a stretch in which both sides act and neither is answerable.
05 LINKED TERMS
PS-HND-047 SHIFT HANDOVER LOSSPS-HND-052 TAKEOVER READINESS GAPPS-HND-059 AUTHORITY REVOCATIONPS-MOD-063 MODE CONFUSIONPS-MOD-068 TRANSITION UNDER LOADPS-MOD-069 FALLBACK STATE UNDEFINEDPS-MOD-070 MANUAL REVERSION COSTPS-SUP-077 DELEGATION BOUNDARYPS-COO-138 ROLE OVERLAP IN CRISISPS-COO-141 NEGOTIATION UNDER LATENCYPS-INP-156 SAFEGUARD WINDOW COSTPS-REP-215 THE PROOF DOES NOT WAIT