freeway
an express highway with no intersections, usually having traffic routed on and off by means of a cloverleaf.
a toll-free highway.
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Some consider trucking to be an attractive market for a self-driving startup because freeways are a relatively simple environment for software to understand.
Toyota partners with startup Aurora to develop self-driving taxis | Timothy B. Lee | February 9, 2021 | Ars TechnicaBefore the SkyGuardian was rerouted to the desert, General Atomics had planned to use its technologies to detect speeders on the freeway.
Lessons From the Year in Surveillance Tech Debacles | Jesse Marx | December 28, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoAt night, after his wife, Gail, fell asleep, he sneaked out of the house with his teenage son to drive the empty freeways and cruise by the shuttered brick downtown, letting the cold wind hit his skin.
For Years, JaMarcus Crews Tried to Get a New Kidney, but Corporate Healthcare Stood in the Way | by Lizzie Presser | December 15, 2020 | ProPublicaTheir daily commutes can also be a nightmare, even before they reach the freeway.
What the Census Taught Me About the NIMBY vs. YIMBY Debate | Paul Krueger | December 14, 2020 | Voice of San DiegoI grew up associating SANDAG with the signs on the side of the freeway.
A Sixth Big Move for SANDAG’s New Transportation Vision | Joe Bettles | November 30, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
He took a secluded road, telling me that avoiding the freeway would save me the tolls.
‘Brave Miss World’: Linor Abargil on Her Journey From Rape Victim to Beauty Queen to Activist | Linor Abargil | May 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe word evaporados appears on a wall adjacent to a freeway in a collection of photographs by Eduardo Villanes.
In ‘Urbes Mutantes,’ Scenes From Latin America’s Transformations | Justin Jones | May 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.
Amy Heckerling’s Three Favorite Scenes in ‘Clueless’ on Its 18th Birthday | Erin Cunningham | July 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1998, a man named Daniel Jones shot himself in the head on live television on a Los Angeles freeway interchange.
‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase | Eric Nusbaum | September 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe pulled the stolen sedan off the freeway in Tonopah, about 50 miles west of Phoenix.
‘Horribly Wrong’—Fox’s Live Suicide and the Thrill of the Police Chase | Eric Nusbaum | September 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTI folded there, and the next thing I knew, I was on my side in the rubble under the freeway, holding myself and crying.
Little Brother | Cory DoctorowTraffic roared up the first short block of Wisconsin from under the high steel freeway down to their left.
Mr. Wicker's Window | Carley DawsonThe last flicker of light scudded across the steel sides of the freeway to pick out the lettering above the shop window.
Mr. Wicker's Window | Carley DawsonHere is the railroad overpass, and here is the freeway overpass.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThat's right; in other words, Stemmons freeway and the service road both go under the underpass.
Warren Commission (6 of 26): Hearings Vol. VI (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
British Dictionary definitions for freeway
/ (ˈfriːˌweɪ) /
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