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.
• For those with the desire to be more autonomous and independent, using an app could be the perfect resource.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 June 2022
• But with the rise of the internet, the surge of streaming, an influx of smart devices and a future of autonomous vehicles, big server farms are increasingly a mainstay of life.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 July 2022
• Ford Motor and Volkswagen teamed up a few years ago to work on electric vehicles and autonomous driving technology.
  — Neal E. Boudette, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2024
• Fully autonomous planes could be coming to a flight near you—and that’s not a good thing.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
• 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
• In the future, the chips will be used in autonomous vehicles and other state-of-the-art equipment.
  — Laura Hancock, cleveland, 9 Sep. 2022
• 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
• It's used in autonomous vehicles to determine the edge of a road, and to detect people and cars.
  — Wired, 13 Aug. 2022
• Nature is not simply something that is outside, a kind of autonomous sphere of our lives.
  — Y-Jean Mun-Delsalle, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• Roughly the size of a small car, DART will make its way to the asteroid using a new autonomous guidance system.
  — Sarah Bahari, Dallas News, 26 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Musk has been touting self-driving cars as the next big thing for years, saying in 2015 that autonomous vehicles would be on the road within two years.
  — Tristan Bove, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Suppose the fully autonomous future never arrived—then what, or whom, would the cars be for?
  — Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 20 July 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
• Recent advances in agentic AI bring that autonomous future a step closer to reality.
  — Mark Purdy, Harvard Business Review, 12 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Jan 2025