How to Use autopilot in a Sentence

autopilot

noun

• The plane was flying on autopilot.
• But there's a lot of dangers as well -- autopilot being one of them, doing the same old same old.
  — Gary Graff, Billboard, 2 Feb. 2018
• 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.
  — GQ, 1 Mar. 2018
• In fact, on many flights, autopilot systems already control the plane for basically all of the flight.
  — Jeremy Straub, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• As reliable as autopilot is, humans are still very much necessary to operating flights.
  — Elizabeth Logan, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Oct. 2017
• The company hasn’t said whether the driver had engaged Tesla’s autopilot feature.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2018
• The car is not entirely autonomous, requiring the driver to remain alert when using autopilot and be in control.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 3 Apr. 2018
• Though the vehicle itself was not fully self-driving, its driver had instructions to operate and navigate as if the car were on autopilot.
  — Rob Wile, miamiherald, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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.
  — The Editors, National Review, 12 Feb. 2018
• 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.
  — Jeremy Straub, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018
• The debt crisis will change the focus to the probable solution: A future of far higher taxes and a government on autopilot to absorb more and more of the private sector.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 9 Feb. 2018
• Oh's Eve is an American living in London whose life is unfolding distressingly on autopilot.
  — Julia Felsenthal, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
• The smarter move may be to take ourselves out of the equation and switch on the autopilot.
  — J.j. McCorvey, WSJ, 9 May 2022
• All of those things are kind of on autopilot through this year.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 17 Sep. 2020
• On the other, the plane was on autopilot almost the whole way.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Clearly, the team had more work to do on the vessel’s autopilot.
  — Vanessa Minke-Martin, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Nov. 2020
• Thanks to the autopilot mode, younger children can use this boat with ease, too.
  — Douglas Helm, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2022
• Let go of life on autopilot and start to take control of your own destiny!
  — Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Dec. 2022
• On autopilot, the drone tried to fly back to the Ukrainian position.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2022
• My mind was beginning to be too much for me and my body was on autopilot.
  — Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
• For the first time, conditions were calm enough to rely on the autopilot.
  — Tomas Weber, Rolling Stone, 18 May 2024
• The plane flew on autopilot for four hours and crashed near Aberdeen, South Dakota.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 5 June 2023
• The vessel has no driver, though; it's set to autopilot.
  — Matt Cabral, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• While the team hasn’t been on autopilot since, the Lady Mustangs have rarely been tested.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2020
• That which was once autopilot now requires us to keep our hands on the wheel and pay attention.
  — Natasha Preskey, refinery29.com, 3 May 2020
• Strasser sat behind the wheel, which was set to autopilot.
  — oregonlive, 13 Mar. 2021
• The angelic-looking thing did all this on the autopilot in the back of his heavenly mind.
  — Riley Van Steward, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Advertisement Jack raised his sails, turned on the autopilot and tried to sleep.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• When returning to Point Lay from a volleyball tournament in Point Hope one spring, the autopilot stuck.
  — Scott Haugen, Outdoor Life, 11 Sep. 2024
• Job aids such as step-by-step checklists will keep you from just doing those things mindlessly, by rote, or going on autopilot.
  — Bruce Tulgan, Forbes, 18 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Nov 2024