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driverless

driverless adjective: without a driver (of a vehicle).

Adjective

driverless (not comparable)

  1. Without a driver (of a vehicle).
    • a driverless vehicle
    • Will Underground trains be completely driverless? The new signalling being installed as part of the Upgrade will allow this, and the development, allowing a faster throughput of trains, might arise from, or be stopped by, a battle with the unions. Mike Brown, Managing Director of London...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277
  2. Without a driver (software to control hardware).
    • a driverless printer

Examples of driverless in a sentence

  • Will Underground trains be completely driverless?2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 277:
  • One of the latest [conditions], from last summer, was that Transport for London should look again at driverless trains.2021 December 1, Philip Haigh, “TfL's deepening financial crisis puts Tube services at risk”, in RAIL, number 945, page 59:
  • A man who blocked and shouted at a driverless Waymo car later brutally beat a bystander who told him to let it go, California police reported.2024 July 17, Don Sweeney, “Man brutally beats bystander after standoff with driverless car, California cops say”, in The Sacramento Bee...
  • These differ from the driverless cars that Elon Musk’s Tesla and other companies are also working on, which are not allowed on UK roads. , Joe Pinkstone, 92025 January, “Why using your phone behind the wheel could become legal in self-driving cars”, in (Please provide the book title or journal...

Origin of driverless

From driver + -less.

Words formed from driverless

Questions about driverless

What does driverless mean?
Driverless means without a driver (of a vehicle).
How do you use driverless in a sentence?
Will Underground trains be completely driverless?
What part of speech is driverless?
Driverless is an adjective.

Words near driverless in the dictionary

  1. driver's seat
  2. driver's seats
  3. driver-only operation
  4. driveress
  5. driveresses
  6. driverless
  7. driverlessly
  8. driverlessness
  9. driverly
  10. drivers
  11. drivers license

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