Up Velocity

I watched this tutorial: Unity Tutorial: 2d Arcade-Style Car Driving/Physics - YouTube about making a racing game in unity, but I didn’t understand why the ForwardVelocity() function was returning only the up velocity.

From 32:40 he starts explaining what he wants to do, and how.

The two functions, ForwardVelocity () and RightVelocity (), return the individual components of the car’s velocity vector. He does this so that he can more easily manipulate them individually.