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  2. Planned obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Notable works. Organizations and groups. People. Related social movements. See also. v. t. e. In economics and industrial design, planned obsolescence (also called built-in obsolescence or premature obsolescence) is the concept of policies planning or designing a product with an artificially limited useful life or a purposely frail design, so ...

  3. Job obsolescence - Wikipedia

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    Job obsolescence. Job obsolescence, [1] occupational obsolescence or skills obsolescence[2] is a situation in which an occupation loses its field of work or its competitiveness is reduced compared to another more efficient one that fulfills the same function. This type of obsolescence is due to multiple factors, among the main ones are the ...

  4. Glossary of automotive terms - Wikipedia

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    Also gas pedal. A throttle in the form of a foot-operated pedal, or sometimes a hand-operated lever or paddle, by which the flow of fuel to the engine (and thereby the engine speed) is controlled, with depression of the pedal causing the vehicle to accelerate. admission stroke See induction stroke. aftermarket air brake 1. A type of brake in which the force that actuates the brake mechanism is ...

  5. Jobs That'll Soon Be Lost to Automation - AOL

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    Though fast-food jobs are seeing automation at a brisk clip, that doesn't mean workers in sit-down restaurants will be spared. ... self-driving cars may make obsolete almost 5 million humans ...

  6. Mass production - Wikipedia

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    Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines. Together with job production and batch production, it is one of the three main production methods.

  7. Carburetor - Wikipedia

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    A carburetor (also spelled carburettor or carburetter) [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is a device used by a gasoline internal combustion engine to control and mix air and fuel entering the engine. [ 4 ] The primary method of adding fuel to the intake air is through the Venturi tube in the main metering circuit, though various other components are also used to ...

  8. Steam car - Wikipedia

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    Steam car. A Steam Car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine (ECE), whereas the gasoline and diesel engines that eventually became standard are internal combustion engines (ICE). ECEs have a lower thermal efficiency, but carbon monoxide production is more readily regulated.

  9. Tram - Wikipedia

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    The identical word trame with the meaning "crossbeam" is also used in the French language. Etymologists believe that the word tram refers to the wooden beams the railway tracks were initially made of before the railroad pioneers switched to the much more wear-resistant tracks made of iron and, later, steel. [172] The word Tram-car is attested ...