motor vehicles

Cars and trucks

Motor vehicles are machines that move under their own power on roads—cars, trucks, motorcycles, buses.

The term appears most often in legal and regulatory contexts: motor vehicle registration, motor vehicle accident, the Department of Motor Vehicles.

In everyday speech, people usually just say cars or vehicles.

Related

traffic · rush hour · electric vehicles · commuting · parking · parking lot · driver's license · commercial vehicles · buses · autonomous vehicles · tractors · brakes · seat belt · car accident · fuel efficiency · carpool · windshield · transportation

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propulsion method

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Human-powered wheeled vehicles

horse-drawn vehicles · rickshaws · pedicabs · handcarts · walking

transportation mode

motor vehiclestrains

Linked rail carriages

rail transport · railways · subways · streetcars · foot traffic

mobility vs. stationarity

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Constructed enclosed structures

real estate · infrastructure · roads

Family

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G