The S.U.V.'s are almost entirely what the auto industry refers to as crossover utility vehicles, which are built on car platforms instead of the heavier pickup truck underbodies that Detroit relied on in the 1980s and '90s.
In Twitter's parlance, an auto follow refers to an immediate and programmatic means of following another user back after they follow you.
Auto-focusing refers to the automatic modulation of the focal length with the distance from the subject.
An auto-calibration refers to the determination of the camera parameters from a sequence of the overlapping images without necessarily setting up ground control points (GCPs) or special calibration targets.
The auto industry often refers to vehicles like the Viper as halo cars.
In the telematics industry, it's more than having CarPlay or Android Auto--connectivity refers to a vehicle operating system's ability to communicate with emergency response systems, the cloud, or the "internet of things," which can be a mobile device, WiFi home security system, transportation infrastructure, or other vehicles.
Auto analysts referred to this as "pent-up demand," and 2012 was the year the dam finally burst.
"The timing on the older products wasn't good," said Finbarr O'Neill, president of J. D. Power & Associates, the market research firm that tracks the auto market, referring to tall wagons offered in the United States in the 1980s and '90s.
People in the auto business refer to Bez, the German chief executive of Ford Motor 's Aston Martin subsidiary, as a madman.
"Consumers have gotten used to direct control in a host of transactions without middle-men," says Hinrichs, who compares his vision for AutoGravity to becoming "the CarFax of auto lending," referring to the dominant provider of a vehicle's repair and accident history, which has become a staple of consumer car shopping online.
Yes, "what was right," in that ad, refers to the auto bailouts.
