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Vehicles are non-living means for transportation. They are most often man-made ( automobiles, motorcycles, trains, ships, aircraft), but also non-man-made means for transportations can be called vehicles, including icebergs and floating tree trunks. Vehicles may be motored by animals, e.g. a chariot, or an ox-cart . However, animals on their own, though used as means for transportation, are not called vehicles. This includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person. Movement without the help of a vehicle or an animal is called locomotion. AVL is Automatic Vehicle Location.
Types of Vehicles
- Aircraft
- Automobiles
- Auto rickshaws
- Boats
- Buses
- Coaches
- Motorcycles
- Trains
- Ships
- VansA van is a vehicle used for transporting goods or groups of people. It is generally a rather box-shaped vehicle on four wheels, about the same width and length as a large automobile, but taller and usually higher off the ground. It can either be a special
TransportationFor the movement of people or objects, see transport. For the shipping of convicted criminals to penal colonies, see penal transportation.
"Vehicle" is also used in translation for the Buddhist Sanskrit/Pali term " yanaFor the Native American Yana tribe see Yana (native American tribe). Yana is a Sanskrit word meaning vehicle which represents an augmentation to the analogy of the spiritual path, to include the idea of various vehicles that can take the practitioner alon", which represents an augmentation to the analogy of the spiritual path, to include the idea of various vehicles that can take the practitioner along the path to enlightenment.
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