Vehicle

A Vehicle is a mobile machine that can transport.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Manually-Powered Vehicle, to being a Fuel Powered Vehicle.
  • It can range from being a Manually-Controlled Vehicle, Remotely-Controlled Vehicle, or Autonomous Vehicle.
  • It can (typically) use Transport Infrastructure such as roads, railways, airways, and waterways.
  • It can (typically) transport persons, animals, cargo, or a combination of these.
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• Example(s):
  • a Land Vehicle, such as a motor vehicle, such as: Car, Truck, Bus, Mars Rover, ...;
  • a Bicycle, Motorcycle, Scooter (such as an electric scooter).
  • an Aircraft.
  • a Vehicle for Hire, a Public Transport Vehicle.
  • a Watercraft, such as: Boat, Ship.
  • a Spacecraft.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Shoe or a Sled, while they facilitate movement, they are not typically considered as vehicles.
  • A Conveyor Belt, although it transports, it is not mobile.
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• See: Windmill, Cargo, Wagon, Vehicular Traffic.

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References

2019

• (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vehicle Retrieved:2019-10-15.
  • A vehicle (from ) is a machine that transports people or cargo. Vehicles include wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats), amphibious vehicles (screw-propelled vehicle, hovercraft), aircraft (airplanes, helicopters) and spacecraft.

    Land vehicles are classified broadly by what is used to apply steering and drive forces against the ground: wheeled, tracked, railed or skied. ISO 3833-1977 is the standard, also internationally used in legislation, for road vehicles types, terms and definitions.

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