How to Use autonomous in a Sentence

autonomous

adjective

• Native American nations are regarded as autonomous in many respects and thus not subject to a number of state and local laws.
• Once the Clipper arrives in 2030, the autonomous craft plans to scan beneath the surface of Europa to search for signs of life.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2024
• The autonomous cars can watch for pedestrians, change lanes and make right-hand turns.
  — Cade Metz, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2023
• Phoenix was already home to the largest fully autonomous service area in the U.S., but the expansion grows that area to 315 square miles.
  — Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 5 June 2024
• To some critics, that’s where autonomous cars belong for the time being.
  — Andrea Guzman, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
• In the mid-1980s, Aruba became an autonomous entity of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
  — Jacqueline Dole, Travel + Leisure, 3 Jan. 2024
• Nature is not simply something that is outside, a kind of autonomous sphere of our lives.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• All this comes as the autonomous vehicles space is going through a major change up.
  — Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• Even small errors could lead to crashes from which the autonomous drones could not recover.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Teamsters union is likewise worried about job loss from autonomous trucks.
  — WIRED, 22 Sep. 2023
• For autonomous vehicles, 5G is not the backbone of a self-driving car.
  — Romil Bahl, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
• One autonomous speedboat, the Seagull, is designed to hunt mines and submarines by dragging a sonar array in its wake.
  — Will Knight, WIRED, 25 July 2023
• The autonomous government in the region had been running it since 2016.
  — Courtney Kube, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• Baidu has done well with its focus on the Apollo autonomous driving system and rollout of robo-taxis.
  — Brendan Ahern, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• The heating points will be equipped with autonomous power sources, as well as special boiler rooms.
  — Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
• Where is that fleet of a million autonomous taxis announced five years ago and slated for delivery three years ago?
  — Steven Tian, Fortune, 21 Dec. 2022
• It was intended as a way to test autonomous vehicle tech, and Sony announced in mid-2020 that the Vision-S would hit public roads in Japan to do just that.
  — PCMAG, 5 Jan. 2023
• Test versions of autonomous vehicles were circling roads for the first time.
  — Sarah Kessler, New York Times, 10 June 2023
• After looping up in front of the lab and then above it, the capsule will move in for an autonomous docking at the space-facing port of the forward Harmony module.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 26 Nov. 2022
• Other residents of this hilly city by the bay are not so ambivalent about the coming onslaught of autonomous cars.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 10 July 2023
• Save for a mannequin, and a couple of dummy torsos, the Orion spacecraft flew empty as a test to see how the autonomous capsule would do on its journey to the moon and back.
  — Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 8 Jan. 2023
• Three experts weigh in on what the future holds for autonomous vehicles.
  — WSJ, 10 Apr. 2023
• Even more recent visitors to the area will find an autonomous 400-pound robot surveilling the subway station there.
  — Karrie Jacobs, Curbed, 12 Oct. 2023
• The company behind them now hopes to build an autonomous ferry that will operate during the Paris Olympic games in 2024.
  — Nadia Leigh-Hewitson, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Stephen’s approach is that dreams are living, autonomous worlds and figures and landscapes.
  — Amy Raasch, Los Angeles Times, 3 Apr. 2024
• That’s because to leverage the full potential of autonomous cars means to also embrace their ability to act as a kind of hive mind.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 8 Feb. 2023
• Some want to be as autonomous as possible while others prefer a lot of guidance.
  — Jenelle Riley, Variety, 17 Nov. 2023
• Marc Benioff has declared a ‘hard pivot’ to autonomous AI agents.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 6 Sep. 2024
• The company hopes to roll out a swarm of these autonomous vehicles before 2027, says Musk, but Tesla has a few hurdles to overcome before then.
  — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
• Whether or not the Optimus robot was actually fully autonomous or, rather, puppeteered from afar is (very) debatable.
  — Meredith Woerner, Variety, 14 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024