Automated vehicles (Topical Term)
- Automated motor vehicles
- Earlier heading: Autonomous vehicles
- Driver-free cars
- Driverless cars
- Robot cars (Automated vehicles)
- Self-driving cars
- Broader heading: Motor vehicles
Work cat.: 2014022215: Autonomous vehicles, 2014.
Inspec, viewed June 9, 2014 (in abstracts and titles; uncontrolled term: Autonomous vehicles)
Applied science full text, June 9, 2014 (subject term: Autonomous vehicles)
Wikipedia, June 17, 2014 (An autonomous car,[1] also known as a driverless car,[2] driver-free car,[3] self-driving car[4] or robot car,[5] is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car. As an autonomous vehicle, it is capable of sensing its environment and navigating without human input)
Wikipedia, May 17, 2019 (website updated title from autonomous car to self-driving car) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-driving_car
Google search, conducted May 21, 2019: (self-driving cars = 284,000,000 hits; autonomous vehicles = 93,700,000 hits)
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration web site, July 16, 2019 (Automated Vehicles for Safety: The continuing evolution of automotive technology aims to deliver even greater safety benefits and Automated Driving Systems (ADS) that -- one day -- can handle the whole task of driving when we don't want to or can't do it ourselves)
Driverless, 2016.