autopilot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A system that automatically steers a vehicle, plane, or ship without a person controlling it.

   Once at cruising altitude, the pilot switched on the autopilot.

2. 2
   noun

   A state in which you do things automatically, without really thinking about them.

   By the end of the long shift she was running on autopilot.

From auto- + pilot.

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