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Examples of autopilot in a Sentence
an airplane equipped with an autopilot
The plane was flying on autopilot.
Recent Examples of autopilot from the Web
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Already, aircraft regulators are concerned that human pilots are forgetting how to fly on their own and may have trouble taking over from an autopilot in an emergency.
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Oh's Eve is an American living in London whose life is unfolding distressingly on autopilot.
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Self-driving cars, or cars with sophisticated autopilot capabilities, have caused two deaths in the last decade, the earliest phase of their commercial development — one in 2016, and one earlier this month.
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Although there has been at least one death attributed to Tesla’s autopilot feature, the tragic death of 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg is considered to be the first time an autonomous vehicle has killed a person who was not a passenger in that vehicle.
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There's just one problem with wearing the hue over and over and that's that guys tend to go on autopilot when getting dressed.
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While some of our friends in Washington worry about rinky-dink outlays such as foreign aid, the biggest chunks of federal spending remain on autopilot.
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But there's a lot of dangers as well -- autopilot being one of them, doing the same old same old.
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The Tesla autopilot is a Level 2 system, with Level 5 as the standard for a fully autonomous car.
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First Known Use of autopilot
1916
AUTOPILOT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of autopilot for English Language Learners
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: a device that steers a ship, aircraft, or spacecraft in place of a person
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