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Electronic stability control
Electronic stability control (ESC), also called the Electronic Stability Program, is a vehicle safety system that brakes individual wheels to stop skids. It debuted in the 1995 Mercedes-Benz S 600.
Electronic toll collection
Electronic toll collection (ETC) is a system that charges road tolls automatically, identifying vehicles electronically so drivers need not stop and pay cash at toll booths.
Elio Motors
Elio Motors was an American vehicle startup founded in Phoenix in 2009 by Paul Elio to build a three-wheeled, 84-mpg commuter car, but it never delivered one.
Emergency vehicle lighting
Emergency vehicle lighting, also known as police lights, is the flashing warning lamps fitted to police, fire, and ambulance vehicles to alert motorists and pedestrians.
Emergency vehicle preemption
Emergency vehicle preemption is a traffic signal mode that gives approaching emergency vehicles the right of way, cutting response times by up to 50 percent.
Emil Frey Group
The Emil Frey Group is a Swiss, family-owned automotive import and retail group founded in Zurich in 1924, ranking first among Europe's largest dealer groups.
Emil Jellinek
Emil Jellinek (1853–1918), from 1903 Emil Jellinek-Mercedes, was an Austrian-Hungarian businessman and diplomat who created the Mercedes automobile brand, named for his daughter Mercédès, and served as Austro-Hungarian consul general in Nice.
End terminal
An end terminal, also called a guardrail end terminal, is the device fitted to the exposed end of a W-beam guardrail to anchor the rail and manage crashes.
End-to-end autonomous driving
End-to-end autonomous driving is an approach in which one machine learning system maps raw sensor input directly to a vehicle's control signals, first demonstrated by ALVINN in 1989.
Enlaces Terrestres Mexicanos
Enlaces Terrestres Mexicanos (ETN) is a Mexican luxury intercity bus company founded in 1991 that runs three-across executive seating on double-decker coaches to more than 70 destinations across Mexico.
Epoxy asphalt
Epoxy asphalt is a paving binder in which thermosetting epoxy resin cures within conventional asphalt, gaining strength over time and used chiefly on orthotropic steel bridge decks.
Erf (trucks)
ERF was a British truck manufacturer founded in 1933 by Edwin Richard Foden at Sandbach, Cheshire, that built heavy lorries from bought-in components until 2007.
Escota
Escota is a French toll motorway concession company operating a 471 km network around Marseille and Nice, opened France's first toll motorway in 1961, and is owned by VINCI.
Ethan Couch
Ethan Couch, born in 1997, is the Texas teenager who killed four people while driving drunk in 2013 and got 10 years' probation after an "affluenza" defense.
ETSI ITS-G5
ETSI ITS-G5 is the European access-layer standard for cooperative intelligent transport systems, based on IEEE 802.11p, enabling direct vehicle communication in the 5.9 GHz band and standardized from 2009.
Ettore Bugatti
Ettore Arco Isidoro Bugatti (1881–1947) was an Italian-born automobile designer who founded his factory at Molsheim in Alsace in 1909 and created the celebrated Type 35 racer.
EU Product Liability Directive 2024 revision
Directive (EU) 2024/2853 is the European Union's revised product liability law, adopted in 2024 to replace the 1985 directive and extending no-fault liability to software, AI systems, and digital services.
EUREKA Prometheus Project
The EUREKA Prometheus Project was a European cooperative research program in intelligent vehicles and automated driving, initiated by Daimler-Benz in 1986 and run mainly from 1987 to 1994.
Euro NCAP
Euro NCAP, or the European New Car Assessment Programme, is an independent safety program that crash-tests new passenger cars sold in Europe and publishes ratings on a zero-to-five-star scale.
Europcar Mobility Group
Europcar Mobility Group is a French vehicle rental and mobility company headquartered in Paris, founded in 1949, operating the Europcar, Goldcar, and Fox Rent-a-Car brands in more than 130 countries.
European Automobile Manufacturers' Association
The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association, ACEA from its French name, is the Brussels-based trade association representing 17 major European car, van, truck, and bus manufacturers before EU institutions.
European Road Assessment Programme
The European Road Assessment Programme (EuroRAP) rates the risk faced by road users on major European roads, using crash statistics and road inspections to produce star ratings.
European route E18
European route E18 is an international E-road running from Craigavon in Northern Ireland via Belfast, Stranraer, and Newcastle to Scandinavia, linking Oslo and Stockholm and continuing to the Russian border in Finland.
European route E30
European route E30 is a west–east road of the international E-road network, running from Cork in Ireland through London, Berlin, Warsaw, and Minsk to Moscow.
European route E4
European route E4, or Europaväg 4, is a 1,590 km road through Sweden from Helsingborg via Stockholm to Haparanda and Tornio on the Finnish border, often called Sweden's lifeline.
European route E6
European route E6 is a 3,120 km north–south road from Trelleborg in southern Sweden to Kirkenes in northeastern Norway, linking the Oslo and Gothenburg regions.
European Transport Safety Council
The European Transport Safety Council (ETSC) is a Brussels-based independent non-profit, founded in 1993, that gives expert advice on transport safety to EU institutions and national governments.
European vehicle registration plate
A European vehicle registration plate shows a vehicle's registration number plus a country code, commonly with a blue euroband carrying the EU flag stars, recognized EU-wide under 1998 rules.
Eurovignette
The Eurovignette is a time-based road user charge for heavy goods vehicles, in operation since 1995 and governed by the EU's Eurovignette Directive of 1999.
Evaporative emission control
Evaporative emission control is the vehicle hardware and regulations that keep gasoline vapors from escaping the fuel system, storing them in a charcoal canister and burning them in the engine.