Can vehicles defend against melee attacks? Options

[Ranger]

Can vehicles defend against melee attacks? For example, if a character with a monofilament whip delays his action to attack a car as it drove by, does the driver get to make a defense test against the attack?

The Vehicle Combat section of the SR4 book describes only 3 possible defense tests: against ramming attacks, evasive driving against ranged attacks, and the standard defense against ranged defense.

Drones with the Defense Autosoft are allowed to parry and full parry against melee attacks. But, it's only drones that have the option to defend against melee attacks.

This seems to imply that if you swing a melee weapon at a vehicle, you make a success test instead of an opposed test. Is this correct?