road test
noun
1
: a test of a vehicle under practical operating conditions on the road
2
: a test on the road of a person's driving ability as a requirement for a driver's license
road test
transitive verb
Examples of road test in a Sentence
The car performed well on the road test.
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The last state to drop the requirement was New Hampshire in 2011, leaving only Illinois forcing elder drivers to take road tests.
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Honda has only released a rear three-quarter shot of the RSX wrapped in a vinyl camouflage that will be used on road test vehicles until the RSX is fully revealed in the coming months.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The road test wasn’t an option that day because the vehicle registration on the Changing Lanes truck had expired.
—Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
The second thing is that, before sending the self-driving car on a road test, Google engineers drive along the route one or more times to gather data about the environment.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2011
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Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
Honda has only released a rear three-quarter shot of the RSX wrapped in a vinyl camouflage that will be used on road test vehicles until the RSX is fully revealed in the coming months.
—Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes, 15 Jan. 2025
The road test wasn’t an option that day because the vehicle registration on the Changing Lanes truck had expired.
—Emily Gogolak, Harper's Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
The second thing is that, before sending the self-driving car on a road test, Google engineers drive along the route one or more times to gather data about the environment.
—IEEE Spectrum, 18 Oct. 2011
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“Road test.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/road%20test. Accessed 23 Jan. 2025.
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