{
  "id": "auto.vehicle",
  "term": "auto",
  "sense": "vehicle",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 17,
  "arena": "common",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a car that carries people",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "matter.substance",
      "energy.capacity",
      "car.transport",
      "carrying.transporting",
      "people.social",
      "motion.movement",
      "use.application",
      "wheel.tool"
    ],
    "interaction": "energy drives matter arranged as a car that can move, carrying people by applying force through wheels",
    "novel_properties": [
      "controlled locomotion",
      "passenger transport",
      "wheel-based movement"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2020 Tesla Model 3 delivered to a customer in Fremont, California, accelerates to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds using electric energy stored in lithium-ion cells.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "A 1967 Ford Mustang Fastback carried four people during the Monterey Pop Festival, moving from Los Angeles to San Francisco at an average speed of 65 mph.",
      "domain": "everyday life"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Toyota Prius, first mass-produced in 1997, moved people using a hybrid system that switches between gasoline and electric motor power based on driving conditions.",
      "domain": "economics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "car.transport",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "auto is a car"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "auto",
    "autos"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "added missing but essential components that the definition implicitly relies on, especially motion, use, and wheel as key functional elements of a vehicle; interaction updated to reflect full mechanis"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-auto.vehicle"
}