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    A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which...
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    Radio-controlled cars, or RC cars for short, are miniature vehicles (cars, vans, buses, buggies, etc.) controlled via radio. Nitro powered models use...
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    Car controls are the components in automobiles and other powered road vehicles, such as trucks and buses, used for driving and parking. While controls...
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    a servomechanism that takes over the car's throttle to maintain a steady speed set by the driver. Speed control existed in early automobiles such as the...
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    21st century, car usage is still increasing rapidly, especially in China, India, and other newly industrialised countries. Cars have controls for driving...
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  • be another locomotive, or an unpowered control car. In the UK and some other parts of Europe, the control car is referred to as a driving trailer (or...
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    A passenger railroad car or passenger car (American English), also called a passenger carriage, passenger coach (British English and International Union...
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    autonomous car. Adaptive cruise control does not provide full autonomy: the system only provides some help to the driver, but does not drive the car by itself...
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  • car are out of line.) Active differential, in turn, is controlled by an assembly of electromechanical sensors collaborating with a traction control unit...
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    engines, each mounted on twin-strut outriggers, one per side of the control car that hung under the envelope. Before and during World War II, 134 K-class...
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    Radio Controlled Car Racer. Vogel, Greg; Vieira, Peter (2002). "IFMAR Electric Worlds: On-Road Upset! Tamiya Takes Touring Worlds". Radio Control Car Action...
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    Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously...
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    the double-rail car, which consists of a control car (S-car) with a straight carriage number and a compressor car (K-car) with an odd car number. Both vehicles...
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    central post. Unlike radio control cars, the driver has no remote control over the model's speed or steering. Tether cars are often small (less than 1...
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    elements or electronic control devices are not shown. Likewise, the car's frame or chassis has been omitted for clarity. HO slot cars work on a similar principle...
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    Siemens Venture (category Rail passenger cars of the United States)
    locomotive on one end of the consist and a cab control passenger car on the opposite end. Onboard, there will be a car with a food service area and a mix of Coach...
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    operation of remote control locomotives. Union Pacific developed remote-control enabled locomotives, referred to as control car remote control locomotives (CCRCL)...
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    subsystems in a car or other motor vehicle. Modern vehicles have many ECUs, and these can include some or all of the following: engine control module (ECM)...
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    railroad car Railcar or Railbus Rail motor coach Road-rail vehicle Rolling stock Tilting train Travelling Post Office Autorail Cab car or Control car (rail)...
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  • lighter cars due to metallurgical advancements, introduction of ground effect cars with the addition of wings and other aerodynamic surfaces, and control electronics...
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    A police car is an emergency vehicle used by police for transportation during patrols and responses to calls for service. Police cars are used by police...
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    The Gallery Car is a bilevel rail car, originally created by the Pullman Company as the Pullman Gallery Car. It has had five total different manufacturers...
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    A self-driving car, also known as an autonomous car (AC), driverless car, robotic car or robo-car, is a car that is capable of operating with reduced or...
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    combined controller consisting of the engine control unit (ECU) and the transmission control unit (TCU). On some cars, such as many Chryslers, there are multiple...
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    blimp control cars are currently located at the National Museum of Naval Aviation at NAS Pensacola, Florida. The cockpit from the control car for ZPG-2...
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  • – Japanese slot car and radio controlled car Apex Replicas – Australian producer of 1:18 and 1:43 scale diecast and resin model cars Arcade – Primitive...
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  • Brian Kinwald (category Radio-controlled car personalities)
    (October 6, 1973 – April 3, 2019) was an American professional radio control car driver. He was born in Huntington Beach, California and grew up riding...
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    vehicle numbering system, where the 81-717 cars are the control cars and the 81-714 are the trailer cars. Unlike the previous metro sets made in the...
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    called automatic control systems (such as cruise control for regulating the speed of a car). Multi-disciplinary in nature, control systems engineering...
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    British Radio Car Association (or BRCA) is an organisation that promotes the construction and racing of all types of radio controlled cars in the United...
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