Autopilot vs Autonomous - What's the difference?
autopilot | autonomous |
A mechanical, electrical, or hydraulic system used to guide a vehicle without assistance from a human being.
A state of mind where one no longer thinks about doing one's actions, but acts mechanically
Self-governing. Intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, Governing independently.
Acting on one's own or independently; of a child, acting without being governed by parental or guardian rules.
(Celtic linguistics, of a verb form) Used with no subject, indicating an unknown or unspecified agent; used in similar situations as the passive in English (the difference being that the theme in the English passive construction is the subject, while in the Celtic autonomous construction the theme is the object and there is no subject).
As a noun autopilot
is autopilot.As an adjective autonomous is
self-governing intelligent, sentient, self-aware, thinking, feeling, governing independently.autopilot
English
Noun
(en noun)- I set the autopilot to due south, so I could get some rest.
- I've been doing this 12 hours non-stop, and am so hungry and tired that I've stopped thinking: I'm now on autopilot .