Answer
-Responsiveness and movement. An automobile is made to have a predictable reaction to certain stimuli from the environment. Once an engine is started, an automobile is characteristically capable of movement.
- A certain, artificial kind "metabolism", in a sense that automobile is set-up to chemically change fuel into energy to be mobile.
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However these qualities possessed by an automobile are far from being enough to render it somewhat alive. An automobile is made by human to perform certain tasks and it does not have an ability to regenerate itself, not to speak of generic evolution. It is "functional" at most. It hardly challenges our definition of life.
