Not… Really. It’s actually much more complicated but we’d need to compare specific vehicles to explain the differences really.

4WD does tend to have on/off and different modes while AWD usually doesn’t, so that part is kind of true?

But AWD doesn’t drive “every wheel independently”. They do usually try to turn all 4 wheels, but then a set of diffs and clutches will essentially “disconnect” the wheels that aren’t gripping, but it’s not like it’s literally independently driving each wheel…but I guess you could say it’s individually disconnecting each wheel? But that’s not really the same.

But yeah… It’s… Complicated.