Vehicle

A vehicle (from Latin: vehiculum) is a mobile machine that transports people or cargo. Most often, vehicles are manufactured, such as wagons, bicycles, motor vehicles (motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses), railed vehicles (trains, trams), watercraft (ships, boats), aircraft and spacecraft.

Land vehicles are classified broadly by what is used to apply steering and drive forces against the ground: wheeled, tracked, railed or skied. ISO 3833-1977 is the standard, also internationally used in legislation, for road vehicles types, terms and definitions.

History of vehicles

The oldest boats found by archaeological excavation are logboats from around 7,000–10,000 years ago,

a 7,000-year-old seagoing boat made from reeds and tar has been found in Kuwait.

Boats were used between 4000BCE-3000BCE in Sumer,ancient Egypt and in the Indian Ocean.

There is evidence of camel pulled wheeled vehicles about 3000–4000 BCE.

The earliest evidence of a wagonway, a predecessor of the railway, found so far was the 6 to 8.5 km (4 to 5 mi) long Diolkos wagonway, which transported boats across the Isthmus of Corinth in Greece since around 600 BC. Wheeled vehicles pulled by men and animals ran in grooves in limestone, which provided the track element, preventing the wagons from leaving the intended route.

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Vehicle (disambiguation)

A vehicle is a mechanical means of conveyance, a carriage or transport.

Vehicle may also refer to:

Vahana, the Hindu term for a vehicle animal closely associated with a particular deity

Star vehicle, a production primarily aimed at enhancing an actor's career

Vehicle (The Ides of March album)

"Vehicle" (song), the title track by The Ides of March

"Vehicle" (song), the title track by The Ides of March

Vehicle (The Clean album)

Braitenberg vehicles, simple machines conceived by Valentino Braitenberg for a thought experiment in artificial intelligence

In paint manufacturing, the substance in which the coloring pigment is suspended

In pharmaceutics, a carrier of a medicinally active substance

In law, a legal personality such as a corporation, with similar legal rights to a living person

Vehicle (song)

"Vehicle" is the one-hit wonder success for the Chicago-based band The Ides of March. It rose to number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart the week of May 23, 1970. It is purported to be the fastest selling single in Warner Bros. Records history.

Written and sung by Jim Peterik, the song features a distinctive horn section riff that is still popular today. The song is often mistaken for the horn driven sound of Blood, Sweat and Tears which was popular in the same time range. Peterik wrote "Vehicle" as a joke.

Fourteen seconds of the completed "Vehicle" master tape (primarily the guitar solo) was accidentally erased in the recording studio. The missing section was spliced in from a previously discarded take.

The song was used in a 2014 commercial for Hardee's restaurants.

Covers

Richard Stoute of Barbados did a Spouge remix in 1974 on the Rainbow WIRL label.

Bo Bice did a cover as a B-side of his 2005 single "Inside Your Heaven".

Erykah Badu sampled the song for her 2000 track ". . . & on" on the Mama's Gun album.

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