A vehicle (Latin: vehiculum) is a mechanical means of conveyance, a carriage or transport. Most often they are manufactured (e.g. bicycles, cars, motorcycles, trains, ships,boats, and aircraft), although some other means of transportwhich are not made by humans also may be called vehicles; examples include icebergs and floating tree trunks.
Vehicles may be propelled or pulled by engines or animalsincluding humans, for instance, a chariot, a stagecoach, a mule-drawn barge, an ox-cart or rickshaw. However, animals on their own, though used as a means of transport, are not called vehicles, but rather beasts of burden or draft animals. This distinction includes humans carrying another human, for example a child or a disabled person. Means of transport without a vehicle or animal would include walking, running, crawling, or swimming.
Vehicles that do not travel on land often are called craft, such as watercraft, sailcraft, aircraft,hovercraft, 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.
Types of vehicles
[edit]Bicycle
- see Bicycles (see also Vehicular Cycling)
- see main article History of the bicycle
[edit]Rickshaw
A rickshaw is a vehicle that may carry a human and be powered by a human, but it is the mechanical form or cart that is powered by the human that is labeled as the vehicle. For some human-powered vehicles the human providing the power is labeled as a driver.
[edit]Tricycle
- see Tricycle
[edit]Quadracycle
[edit]Velomobile
- see Velomobile
[edit]Electric road carriages
[edit]Steam road carriage
- see steam car
[edit]Steam tricycle
- See steam tricycle
At the other end of the scale, much lighter steam vehicles have been constructed such as the steam tricycle from the Comte de Dion in 1887.
[edit]Petroleum (gasoline / diesel) motor-carriages
- See Benz Patent Motorwagen
- See Ford's model T
- See Automobile
[edit]Road trains
A road train consists of a conventional heavy truck pulling three trailers or more, used in rural areas of Australia to move bulky loads such as livestock efficiently.
[edit]Motorcycles
- See Motorcycle
- See Gottlieb Daimler
[edit]Rail-vehicles
[edit]Road vehicles
[edit]Water vehicles
[edit]Under-water vehicles
- see submarines
- see submersibles
- see diving bells
- see diving chambers
[edit]Land and water vehicles
- see Amphibious vehicle
- see Amphibious ATV
- see Hovercraft
[edit]Air vehicles
[edit]Rocket and space vehicles
- see spacecraft
- see rocket
- see launch escape capsule
- see ejection seat
[edit]Snow vehicles
- see snowmobile
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