Editing Vehicle (section)

{{short description|Mobile equipment that transports people, animals or cargo}}
{{About|the means of transportation }}
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| caption2          = A [[train]] passing a group of [[boat]]s near the [[River Dart]], England in 2016
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A '''vehicle''' ({{etymology|la|{{wikt-lang|la|vehiculum}}|}})<ref name=OED>{{cite OED|vehicle}}</ref> is a [[machine]] designed for self-[[propulsion]], usually to [[transport]] people, [[cargo]], or both. The term "vehicle" typically refers to land vehicles such as [[human-powered land vehicle|human-powered vehicle]]s (e.g. [[bicycle]]s, [[tricycle]]s, [[velomobile]]s), [[animal-powered transport]]s (e.g. [[horse-drawn vehicle|horse-drawn]] [[carriage]]s/[[wagon]]s, [[ox cart]]s, [[dog sled]]s), [[motor vehicle]]s (e.g. [[motorcycle]]s, [[car]]s, [[truck]]s, [[bus]]es, [[mobility scooter]]s) and [[rail transport|railed vehicles]] ([[train]]s, [[tram]]s and [[monorail]]s), but more broadly also includes [[cable transport]] ([[aerial lift|cable car]]s and [[elevator]]s), [[watercraft]] ([[ship]]s, [[boat]]s and [[underwater vehicle]]s), [[amphibious vehicle]]s (e.g. [[screw-propelled vehicle]]s, [[hovercraft]], [[seaplane]]s), [[aircraft]] ([[airplane]]s, [[helicopter]]s, [[glider (aircraft)|glider]]s and [[aerostat]]s) and [[space vehicle]]s ([[spacecraft]], [[spaceplane]]s and [[launch vehicle]]s).<ref name="MacMillian">{{Cite book |url=http://archive.org/details/macmillancontemp00macm |title=Macmillan Contemporary Dictionary |publisher=[[Macmillan, Inc.|Macmillan Publishing]]; [[Macmillan Publishers|Collier Macmillan Publishers]] |year=1979 |isbn=0-02-080780-5 |editor-last=Halsey |editor-first=William D. |editor-link=William Darrach Halsey |location=New York; London |page=1106 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>

This article primarily concerns the more ubiquitous land vehicles, which can be broadly classified by the type of contact interface with the [[land|ground]]: [[wheel]]s, [[continuous track|track]]s, [[railway track|rail]]s or [[ski]]s, as well as the non-contact technologies such as [[maglev]]. [[International Organization for Standardization|ISO]] 3833-1977 is the [[international standard]] for road vehicle types, terms and definitions.<ref>ISO 3833:1977 Road vehicles – Types – Terms and definitions [http://webstore.ansi.org/RecordDetail.aspx?Sku=ISO%203833:1977&PageType=2 Webstore.anis.org]</ref>