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a group of vehicles traveling together or under one management
a fleet of buses rolling down the highway
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Recent Examples of fleets
As of June, Cruise was operating fleets in Dallas and Houston as well.
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Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
Interconnected systems will prove crucial According to Wietfeld, ARX Robotics has developed a solution for existing legacy fleets within NATO’s armed forces—essentially an ‘Amazon Firestick’ for these older systems.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2024
Indonesia has also had confrontations with the Chinese coast guard, which backs Beijing’s fishing fleets.
—Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2024
Coverage of subway crime and fleets of zooming e-bikes may have made some parents more skittish, yet the vast majority of children are managing just fine.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
Mines require fleets of drill rigs, trucks, diggers, and other heavy machinery, energy hogs that account for as much as seven percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gases.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
These could center around managing autonomous fleets, fine-tuning predictive AI systems for industry-specific use cases, or overseeing the legal and ethical implementation of AI.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
These properties are vital for developing future AI systems that will operate on a massive scale, such as large networks of autonomous vehicles or fleets of drones conducting environmental monitoring.
—Thomas Caldwell, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Several ships in two different Spanish fleets were lost in a hurricane in July 1715, causing their treasure to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 10 Dec. 2024
Interconnected systems will prove crucial According to Wietfeld, ARX Robotics has developed a solution for existing legacy fleets within NATO’s armed forces—essentially an ‘Amazon Firestick’ for these older systems.
—Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2024
Indonesia has also had confrontations with the Chinese coast guard, which backs Beijing’s fishing fleets.
—Jim Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2024
Coverage of subway crime and fleets of zooming e-bikes may have made some parents more skittish, yet the vast majority of children are managing just fine.
—The Editors, Curbed, 2 Dec. 2024
Mines require fleets of drill rigs, trucks, diggers, and other heavy machinery, energy hogs that account for as much as seven percent of the world’s annual greenhouse gases.
—Vince Beiser, TIME, 29 Nov. 2024
These could center around managing autonomous fleets, fine-tuning predictive AI systems for industry-specific use cases, or overseeing the legal and ethical implementation of AI.
—Bernard Marr, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
These properties are vital for developing future AI systems that will operate on a massive scale, such as large networks of autonomous vehicles or fleets of drones conducting environmental monitoring.
—Thomas Caldwell, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
Several ships in two different Spanish fleets were lost in a hurricane in July 1715, causing their treasure to sink to the bottom of the ocean.
—Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Fleets.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fleets. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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