The phrase "autonomous means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing methods or tools that operate independently or without external control.
Example: "The project aims to develop autonomous means of transportation that can navigate without human intervention."
Alternatives: "independent methods" or "self-sufficient means".
Many scientists view viruses, with their lack of autonomous means of metabolism or reproduction, as straddling the border between life and nonlife.
"We are going to be the first boat with an autonomous means of producing hydrogen," says Frenchman Victorien Erussard, who is behind the project – confidential until now – with compatriot Jacques Delafosse, a documentary filmmaker and professional scuba diver.
Mercedes-Benz Arocs trucks are an autonomous means to an end: The industrial vehicles can work without drivers, and without requiring a bevy of expensive sensors equipped on the truck itself.
Autophagy is an autonomous means of homeostasis, and has been shown to counter the induction of apoptosis, thus protecting the cell from death.
Recent years have seen a tremendous surge of interest in the possibility that neurodegenerative diseases, including PD, could develop and progress via non-cell autonomous means, spreading by transcellular mechanisms with seeding and subsequent permissive templating, in a prion-like fashion.
Among those who seek and propound theories of musical meaning, the most persistent disagreement is between the referentialists (or heteronomists), who hold that music can and does refer to meanings outside itself, and the nonreferentialists (who are sometimes called formalists or absolutists), who maintain that the art is autonomous and "means itself".
Even the biggest manufacturers, such as General Electric, try to act "small" by organising their operations into a network of autonomous units.This means that the old model of a career, in which an employee worked his way up the ladder in a single company, is becoming rarer.
Miles driven since start of project in 2009 "Autonomous mode" means the software is driving the vehicle, and test drivers are not touching the manual controls.
For clarity, level 3 involves highly automated driving, level four is highly automated while level five is entirely autonomous, which means a human couldn't intervene even if they wanted to.
While Uber could get better at defining a narrow scope of situations where it could shuttle passengers around, that it's going to take a long time to get to more robust autonomous driving means that we might not be losing humans any time soon to ensure that the experience spans the full spectrum of requirements.
In engineering, autonomous control means centering the control power in the unit or agent, and removing the human in the loop.
