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    A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which...
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    Car controls are the components in automobiles and other powered road vehicles, such as trucks and buses, used for driving and parking. While controls...
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  • Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature model cars, vans, buses and many more (or buggies) Nitro powered models use glow plug engines...
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    a servomechanism that takes over the car's throttle to maintain a steady speed set by the driver. Speed control existed in early automobiles such as the...
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    21st century, car usage is still increasing rapidly, especially in China, India, and other newly industrialised countries. Cars have controls for driving...
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  • car are out of line.) Active differential, in turn, is controlled by an assembly of electromechanical sensors collaborating with a traction control unit...
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  • be another locomotive, or an unpowered control car. In the UK and some other parts of Europe, the control car is referred to as a driving trailer (or...
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    autonomous car. Adaptive cruise control does not provide full autonomy: the system only provides some help to the driver, but does not drive the car by itself...
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    railroad car that is designed to carry passengers. The term passenger car can also be associated with a sleeping car, a baggage car, a dining car, railway...
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    police car (also called a police cruiser, police interceptor, black and white, patrol car, area car, cop car, prowl car, squad car, radio car, or radio...
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  • various electronic accessories in a vehicle's body. Typically in a car the BCM controls the power windows, power mirrors, air conditioning, immobilizer system...
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    "Interview with a Legend". Radio Controlled Car Racer. Haswell, Mike (August 2002). "On-Road Worlds 2002". Radio Controlled Car International. Retrieved 5 June...
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    central post. Unlike radio control cars, the driver has no remote control over the model's speed or steering. Tether cars are often small (less than 1...
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    elements or electronic control devices are not shown. Likewise, the car's frame or chassis has been omitted for clarity. HO slot cars work on a similar principle...
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    the radio-controlled car market. There are three common slotcar scales used for competition: 1:24 scale or 1/24, cars are the largest slot cars commonly...
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    Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously...
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    combined controller consisting of the engine control unit (ECU) and the transmission control unit (TCU). On some cars, such as many Chryslers, there are multiple...
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  • radio-controlled car filled with C4 explosive under the victim's vehicle. Callahan finds a toy car wheel at the crime scene, and later sees another toy car...
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  • Scion, Daihatsu or Hino brands. The following is a partial list of concept cars Toyota developed. The year indicates when the vehicle was first officially...
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    the double-rail car, which consists of a control car (S-car) with a straight carriage number and a compressor car (K-car) with an odd car number. Both vehicles...
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  • train: a dining car called Dinah, a smoking car called Ashley, a buffet car called Buffy, and an observation car called Pearl. Control sends Rusty away...
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    cars for housing security forces (using a modified box car), two launchers each holding a single missile (using a modified box car), a launch control...
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    rebuilds by operators. The 8700 series cars feature a control cab; this is not found in the 7600 series cars. The Gallery Car is made of the usual stainless steel...
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    subsystems in a car or other motor vehicle. Modern vehicles have many ECUs, and these can include some or all of the following: engine control module (ECM)...
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    Vehicle audio (redirect from Car stereo)
    controllers like CarPlay and Android Auto. Once controlled from the dashboard with a few buttons, they can be controlled by steering wheel controls and voice...
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    popularity has also risen in the radio-controlled (RC) car area. Brushless motors have been legal in North American RC car racing in accordance with Radio Operated...
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    A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotaxi, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with...
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    called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering...
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    Automaker-made apps allow a user to control vehicle-specific features such as climate controls, gas levels, or radio via CarPlay. Messaging/Voice over IP (VoIP):...
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    vehicle numbering system, where the 81-717 cars are the control cars and the 81-714 are the trailer cars. Unlike the previous metro sets made in the...
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