autopilot
noun
au·to·pi·lot
ˈȯ-tō-ˌpī-lət 
1
: a device for automatically steering ships, aircraft, and spacecraft
also
: the automatic control provided by such a device
Examples of autopilot in a Sentence
an airplane equipped with an autopilot
The plane was flying on autopilot.
Recent Examples on the Web
The tiny mollusk Fuzz set the Vulcan android on autopilot and flew inside Zeph’s body suit and took control of it, killing him and planting evidence on Garrett.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 24 Jan. 2025
The level of this character, the gear and no doubt the skill set-up means that this character is mostly on autopilot for almost all of this content other than perhaps some of the pinnacle bosses.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
One notable recent hire was Zheng Gao, previously the leader of Tesla’s autopilot hardware design team, now director of hardware engineering for Zoox.
—Lora Kolodny,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, there’s no familiar commute to autopilot, no predictable class schedule, no obvious next step.
—Jj Rosen, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 24 Jan. 2025
The level of this character, the gear and no doubt the skill set-up means that this character is mostly on autopilot for almost all of this content other than perhaps some of the pinnacle bosses.
—Paul Tassi, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
One notable recent hire was Zheng Gao, previously the leader of Tesla’s autopilot hardware design team, now director of hardware engineering for Zoox.
—Lora Kolodny,jennifer Elias, CNBC, 26 Dec. 2024
Suddenly, there’s no familiar commute to autopilot, no predictable class schedule, no obvious next step.
—Jj Rosen, The Tennessean, 22 Dec. 2024
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“Autopilot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autopilot. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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