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Encyclopedia > Motor vehicles

Vehicles are non-living means of transport. They are most often man-made (cars, motorcycles, trains, ships, aircraft), but also non-man-made means for transport can be called vehicles, including icebergs and floating tree trunks. Vehicles may be motored by animals, e.g. a chariot, or an ox-cart. However, animals on their own, though used as means of transport, are not called vehicles. This includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person. Movement without the help of a vehicle or an animal is called locomotion. The word itself comes from the Latin vehiculum. For other article subjects named transport see transport (disambiguation). ... Central African Republic Children At Risk Cordillera Administrative Region Cost Accrual Ratio Computer-assisted reporting Cumulative average return This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A motorcycle (or motorbike) is a two-wheeled vehicle powered by an engine. ... This article is about trains in rail transport. ... A ship is a large, usually decked watercraft. ... An aircraft is any machine capable of atmospheric flight. ... An iceberg (berg is the German word for mountain) is a large piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in open water. ... For the torpedo-shaped underwater vehicle ridden by two frogmen, sometimes referred to as a chariot, see Human torpedo. ... The term Movement has a variety of different meanings: Physical movement between points in space (A to B). The amount of movement is called distance. ... In a general sense, locomotion simply means active movement or travel, applying not just to biological individuals. ...


Most land vehicles have wheels, see that articles for vehicles with and without wheels. A wheel is a circular object that together with an axle allows low friction motion, e. ...


AVL is Automatic Vehicle Location. In geography, location is a position or point in physical space expressed relative to the position of another point or thing. ...


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CIS: Motor Vehicle Excise Information (0 words)
If an excise bill is received for a vehicle or trailer which has been sold, the seller must return the plate(s) to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, get a return plate receipt, and file an application for abatement together with the return plate receipt and the bill of sale with the Board of Assessors.
The bill on the trade-in vehicle is prorated back to the last day of the month prior to the one in which the vehicle’s registration was cancelled and the excise bill on the new vehicle will be prorated as of the beginning of the month in which the vehicle was registered.
Falsely reporting the theft of a motor vehicle or trailer will result in severe penalties and a person may be charged up to three times the excise due on the vehicle for an entire year.
Motor Vehicle Theft - Crime in the United States 2004 (1490 words)
Two-, 5-, and 10-year trend data showed considerable volatility: the number of motor vehicles estimated to have been stolen in 2004 decreased 1.9 percent from the 2003 estimate, increased 6.6 percent from the 2000 estimate, and decreased 16.0 percent from the 1995 estimate.
It is estimated that motor vehicles in the South were stolen at a rate of 397.8 offenses per 100,000 population.
The lowest percentage of clearances for motor vehicle thefts involving juveniles (15.5 percent) was reported by law enforcement in both cities with 100,000 to 249,999 in population and in the Nation’s smallest cities, those with under 10,000 inhabitants.
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