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170 controller

The 170 controller, also called the Model 170, is a traffic signal controller hardware standard developed by Caltrans and NYSDOT in the mid-1970s and still used in the United States.

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1932 Ford

The 1932 Ford is Ford's 1932 automobile line, comprising the four-cylinder Model B and the V8-powered Model 18, the first low-priced mass-produced V8 car, known as the "Deuce."

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1941 Ford

The 1941 Ford is a full-size car line produced by Ford for the 1941 model year, its largest car to that date and the last all-new Ford before World War II.

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1949 Ford

The 1949 Ford, nicknamed the Shoebox Ford for its slab-sided body, was Ford's first all-new postwar design and the car credited with returning Ford to profitability.

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1957 Chevrolet

The 1957 Chevrolet is the model-year 1957 full-size Chevrolet range sold by General Motors in One-Fifty, Two-Ten, and Bel Air series, remembered for its tailfins, 283 V8, and first-year fuel injection.

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2009 Taconic State Parkway crash

The 2009 Taconic State Parkway crash killed eight people when Diane Schuler drove a minivan the wrong way near Mount Pleasant, New York, on July 26, 2009.

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2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series

The 2019 NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series was the 24th and only season under the Gander Outdoors name, running 23 races, with Matt Crafton winning the title winlessly.

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2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The 2021 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 27th season of NASCAR's stock car racing series for pickup trucks, its first under the Camping World name since 2018, won by Ben Rhodes.

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2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series

The 2022 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series was the 28th season of NASCAR's pickup truck series, a 23-race schedule won by Zane Smith of Front Row Motorsports.

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212 T01

The 212 T01 is a compact body-on-frame off-road SUV from the revived Chinese brand 212, unveiled in Beijing in June 2024 and on sale from August 2024.

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400-series highways

The 400-series highways are a network of controlled-access freeways in Ontario, Canada, numbered from 400 upward and including the Queen Elizabeth Way, first opened in 1951.

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407 ETR Concession Company

407 ETR Concession Company is the private company that operates Highway 407 ETR, a 108-kilometer toll highway across the top of the Greater Toronto Area.

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495 Express Lanes

The 495 Express Lanes are 14 miles of dynamically tolled high-occupancy toll lanes on the Capital Beltway (I-495) in Fairfax County, Virginia, opened in November 2012 as Virginia's first HOT lanes.

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4Matic

4MATIC is the all-wheel drive system of Mercedes-Benz passenger cars, first shown in 1985 and now offered across nearly every model series, from compacts to the S-Class and AMG performance cars.

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66 Express Outside the Beltway

The 66 Express Outside the Beltway is a 22.5-mile system of dynamically tolled express lanes on Interstate 66 in Northern Virginia, running from the Capital Beltway to Gainesville.

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91 Express Lanes

The 91 Express Lanes are a 10-mile express toll facility in the median of State Route 91 in Southern California, opened in 1995 as the first priced managed lanes in the United States.

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95 Express Lanes

The 95 Express Lanes are 41 miles of tolled, reversible lanes on Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia, opened in 2014 and run by Transurban under a partnership with VDOT.

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A-tractor

An A-tractor (A-traktor) is a series-produced enclosed car converted and registered in Sweden as a slow-moving tractor, capped at 30 km/h and driven mainly by teenagers as cheap transport.

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A1 road (Great Britain)

The A1 road is the longest numbered road in Great Britain, running about 410 miles from London to Edinburgh along the historic Great North Road.

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A2 motorway (Greece)

The A2 motorway, commonly called Egnatia Odos (Εγνατία Οδός), is a toll motorway in northern Greece running from the port of Igoumenitsa to the Turkish border at Kipi.

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A25 (Montreal highway)

Autoroute 25 is a north–south highway on Montreal's eastern side linking the South Shore to Laval, completed in 2011 with a tolled bridge and Quebec's first transportation public-private partnership.

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A303 road

The A303 is a road in southern England, running roughly 150 km from the M3 near Basingstoke to the A30 near Honiton, and passing beside Stonehenge.

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Aaron Kaufman

Aaron Kaufman is an American automotive fabricator and television personality from the Fort Worth, Texas area, best known as lead mechanic at Gas Monkey Garage on Discovery's Fast N' Loud.

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AASHTO

AASHTO, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, is a nonprofit founded in 1914 whose members are the transportation departments of the 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico.

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Abarth

Abarth, also known as Fiat Abarth, is an Italian performance marque founded by Carlo Abarth in 1949, known for its scorpion badge and tuned Fiat cars.

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Abertis

Abertis is a Spanish toll road operator, founded in 2003, that manages about 8,000 kilometers of motorway concessions across 15 countries in Europe, the Americas, and Asia.

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AC Cars

AC Cars, also known as Auto Carriers Ltd, is a British sports car manufacturer founded in 1901, Britain's oldest active vehicle maker and creator of the AC Cobra.

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AC Cobra

The AC Cobra, also known as the Shelby Cobra, is a British-American sports car built from 1962 to 1967 with AC chassis and Ford V8 engines.

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Acadian (automobile)

Acadian was an automobile marque produced by General Motors of Canada from 1962 to 1971, a Pontiac-styled rebadged Chevrolet Chevy II created so Canadian Pontiac-Buick dealers could sell a compact.

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Accelerated bridge construction

Accelerated bridge construction is a bridge-building approach that uses highly prefabricated elements and rapid assembly to minimize traffic impact, speed construction, and reduce risks and investment.