How to Use autonomous in a Sentence

autonomous

adjective
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  • Native American nations are regarded as autonomous in many respects and thus not subject to a number of state and local laws.
  • To some critics, that’s where autonomous cars belong for the time being.
    — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
  • In the mid-1980s, Aruba became an autonomous entity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Nature is not simply something that is outside, a kind of autonomous sphere of our lives.
    — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
  • All this comes as the autonomous vehicles space is going through a major change up.
    — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Even small errors could lead to crashes from which the autonomous drones could not recover.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The Teamsters union is likewise worried about job loss from autonomous trucks.
    — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
  • One autonomous speedboat, the Seagull, is designed to hunt mines and submarines by dragging a sonar array in its wake.
    — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
  • Test versions of autonomous vehicles were circling roads for the first time.
    — Sarah Kessler, New York Times, 10 June 2023
  • Other residents of this hilly city by the bay are not so ambivalent about the coming onslaught of autonomous cars.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 July 2023
  • Three experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles.
    — WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Even more recent visitors to the area will find an autonomous 400-pound robot surveilling the subway station there.
    — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The company behind them now hopes to build an autonomous ferry that will operate during the Paris Olympic games in 2024.
    — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 26 May 2023
  • Stephen’s approach is that dreams are living, autonomous worlds and figures and landscapes.
    — Amy Raasch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Some want to be as autonomous as possible while others prefer a lot of guidance.
    — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
  • This autonomous swimming is believed to protect the original body of the worm from dangers in the environment and help the eggs and sperm travel longer distances.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Nov. 2023
  • There are still kinks to be worked out though: Not every property is suited to an autonomous mower, and prices are still high enough to make many homeowners balk.
    — Kate Morgan, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2023
  • This held true for Waymo vehicles in autonomous mode with a safety driver behind the wheel.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 6 Sep. 2023
  • For example, Phoenix is not currently walking, and is mobile thanks to a small wheeled autonomous base.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 May 2023
  • For example, some smart robots can act as autonomous lifts or yard trucks, or manual loaders to transport goods on the shop floor.
    — Doug Lawson, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The need for farm-adjacent autonomous hauling will continue to grow as the driver shortage worsens in the coming years.
    — Richard Bishop, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And last October, a GM autonomous Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian on the road for 20 feet (six meters).
    — Jody Serrano / Gizmodo, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2024
  • This was just the latest in a series of green lights that have allowed progressively more leeway for autonomous vehicles (AVs) in the city in recent years.
    — Lauren Leffer, Scientific American, 8 Sep. 2023
  • And experts agree that the next decades will finally bring Level 5 autonomous driving—autos without steering wheels will be the norm.
    — Gear Team, WIRED, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Wang was hired in March 2016 to develop hardware and software for autonomous vehicles such as cars.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • So far there are no treaties or international agreements that deal with such autonomous weapons.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Ridesharing giants Uber and Lyft have both sold autonomous vehicle units in recent years.
    — Andy Rose, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
  • At the same time, GM’s autonomous vehicle business faces questions about its future.
    — Jennifer Williams-Alvarez, WSJ, 13 Dec. 2023
  • Throw in the recent shift to autonomous vehicles, and there are more interesting changes happening now than most people can wrap their heads around.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The spacecraft was lost after a leak led to a fire and its autonomous onboard flight termination system destroyed the vehicle.
    — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2024

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