Is a parking-lot-of-Car a kind-of parking-lot-of-Vehicle?, C++ FAQ

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FAQ: Is a parking-lot-of-`Car` a kind-of parking-lot-of-`Vehicle`? ←(in the new Super-FAQ)

It's in Section: Inheritance — proper inheritance and substitutability:

FAQ: Should I hide member functions that were public in my base class?
FAQ: Errors trying to convert Derived** → Base**?
FAQ: Is a parking-lot-of-Car a kind-of parking-lot-of-Vehicle? (this FAQ)
FAQ: Is an array of Derived a kind-of array of Base?
FAQ: Does array-of-Derived is-not-a-kind-of array-of-Base mean arrays are bad?
FAQ: Is a Circle a kind-of an Ellipse?
FAQ: Are there other options to the "Circle is/isnot kind-of Ellipse" dilemma?
FAQ: Why does this Circle-kind-of-Ellipse problem seem confusing?
FAQ: Perhaps Ellipse should inherit from Circle then?
FAQ: But my problem doesn't have anything to do with circles and ellipses, so what good is that silly example to me?
FAQ: How could "it depend"??!? Aren't terms like "Circle" and "Ellipse" defined mathematically?
FAQ: Is SortedList a kind-of List?