The phrase "autonomous programme" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a program or system that operates independently without human intervention.
Example: "The autonomous programme was designed to manage the logistics of the supply chain efficiently."
Alternatives: "self-operating system" or "independent program".
A year ago a self-driving Uber killed a pedestrian in nearby Tempe, where Uber had more than 300 people employed in its own autonomous vehicle programme.
And drunk and distracted driving could become a thing of the past," explains Chris Urmson, the head of Google's autonomous vehicle programme.Big carmakers agree with the general direction.
It's a simple idea: a lonely man called Theodore Twombley (played fantastically by Joaquin Phoenix, who deserved a best actor Academy Award nomination far more than Leonardo DiCaprio for Wolf of Wall Street) falls in love with a seemingly autonomous computer programme called Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson).
As Google's autonomous car programme rolls inexorably forward, it's tempting to think the days of the human car are numbered.
Our results provide the first evidence that p16INK4a can initiate an autonomous senescence programme that is disabled by inherited melanoma-associated mutations.
Our data provide the first evidence that p16INK4a can initiate a CDK4/6-dependent autonomous senescence programme that is disabled by inherited melanoma-associated mutations.
In the absence of this triggering event, the pistil's autonomous developmental programme leads to organ senescence after a few days [ 1- 4].
Although it has been shown that wild-type p16INK4a can promote an autonomous senescence programme (Dai & Enders, 2000), there has been no detailed analysis on the impact of melanoma-associated mutations on this programme.
Even Chris Urmson, the head of Google's autonomous-vehicle programme, acknowledges that there are challenges still to be overcome.
(Other firms with autonomous-vehicle programmes, including auto manufacturer Toyota and technology companies Waymo and Uber, declined to comment on the findings). And Nicholas Christakis, a social scientist at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is fascinated by the results.
