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Carbon-ceramic brake
A carbon-ceramic brake is a disc brake with a rotor of carbon fiber reinforced silicon carbide, weighing about half as much as cast iron and lasting far longer.
Carglass
Carglass is a European vehicle glass repair and replacement chain, part of the Belron group, founded in Belgium in 1938 and converted to windscreen repair in 1970.
Cargo bicycle
A cargo bicycle is a bicycle or tricycle built to carry heavy loads or passengers, with an extended frame and a cargo area at the front or rear.
CARISSMA
CARISSMA, the Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area, is the vehicle safety test center at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany, operating crash and outdoor test facilities since 2016.
Carl Benz
Carl Benz, also written Karl Benz, was a German mechanical engineer who built the first automobile, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, patented in 1886; his company Benz & Cie. became the world's largest automobile factory by 1900.
Carl Fogarty
Carl Fogarty, widely known as Foggy, is a retired English motorcycle racer from Blackburn, Lancashire, who won the Superbike World Championship four times, mostly riding for Ducati.
CARLA (simulator)
CARLA (Car Learning to Act) is an open-source autonomous driving simulator built on Unreal Engine, created in Spain and first described in a 2017 research paper.
Carlos Ghosn (كارلوس غصن)
Carlos Ghosn (كارلوس غصن), born 1954 in Brazil, is the businessman who led Nissan's celebrated turnaround and the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance before his 2018 arrest in Japan and 2019 escape to Lebanon.
CarPlay
CarPlay is an Apple software platform, announced in 2014, that projects a car-friendly iPhone interface onto a vehicle's display for calls, directions, music, and messages.
Carpool
A carpool, also called carpooling or lift-sharing, is an arrangement where two or more people ride together regularly, sharing the driving or the trip's cost.
Carretera a El Salvador
The Carretera a El Salvador (CA-1 Oriente) is the trunk highway from Guatemala City to the Salvadoran border at San Cristóbal, part of the Pan-American Highway.
Carretera Austral
The Carretera Austral, also called Camino Longitudinal Austral, is Chile's Route 7, a remote Patagonian highway from Puerto Montt to Villa O'Higgins begun in 1976.
Carretera Central (Peru)
The Carretera Central is the main highway of central Peru, linking Lima with La Oroya in the Andes and, through branches there, with Cerro de Pasco and Huancayo.
Carretera Interoceánica Sur
The Carretera Interoceánica Sur is a paved highway in southern Peru linking Pacific coast ports with the Amazonian town of Iñapari on the Brazilian border, operating since 2010.
Carriage
A carriage is a wheeled, horse-drawn vehicle used chiefly for carrying people, and was the principal means of comfortable road travel for roughly four centuries.
Carroll Shelby
Carroll Hall Shelby (1923–2012) was an American racing driver and designer who won the 1959 Le Mans 24 Hours, then built the Shelby Cobra and Shelby Mustangs.
Carrozzeria Ghia
Carrozzeria Ghia SpA was an Italian automobile design and coachbuilding firm founded in Turin during World War I, famed for the Karmann Ghia and Chrysler Turbine Car bodies before Ford absorbed it.
Carsharing
Carsharing is a technology-facilitated, membership-based service giving short-term access to a car without ownership, in station-based, one-way, and peer-to-peer forms; the first service began in Zurich in 1948.
Cart
A cart is a small vehicle with two or four wheels, pushed by a person or pulled by an animal, used to transport large or heavy objects.
Casspir
The Casspir is a South African 4x4 mine-resistant armored personnel carrier, often described as the first dedicated MRAP, developed for the South African Police and in service since 1981.
Caster angle
The caster angle, also written castor angle, is the angle between a steered wheel's steering axis and the vertical; positive caster aids straight-line stability but increases steering effort.
Cat's eye (road)
The cat's eye is a retroreflective road stud invented by Yorkshire's Percy Shaw in 1934 that marks lanes at night and wipes itself clean when driven over.
Caterham 7
The Caterham 7, also known as the Caterham Seven, is a lightweight two-seater sports car Caterham Cars has built since 1973, when it acquired the Lotus Seven rights from Colin Chapman.
Caterham Cars
Caterham Cars is a British manufacturer of lightweight sports cars, founded in 1974, best known for the Caterham Seven, which it builds as kits and factory-built cars.
Caterpillar 797
The Caterpillar 797 is a series of ultra-class mining haul trucks built by Caterpillar Inc. and introduced in 1998 as the world's largest mechanically driven mining truck.
Causeway
A causeway is a raised road or embankment of rock or earth fill built across low or wet ground, typically carrying a road over water, marsh, or floodplain.
Cell transmission model
The cell transmission model (CTM) is a macroscopic traffic flow model introduced by Carlos F. Daganzo in 1994 that simulates queue formation on roads at low computational cost.
Cement-treated base
Cement-treated base (CTB) is a strong, durable paving base made by mixing soil or aggregate with portland cement and water, used under both asphalt and concrete surfaces.
Center Lock (bicycle standard)
Center Lock is a Shimano-developed splined standard for mounting a disc brake rotor to a bicycle hub, secured by a single central lockring; it dominates road and gravel bikes.
Center stand
A center stand is a device on a motorcycle's undercarriage that supports the bike upright on two contact points, lifting one or both wheels for maintenance.