Sentences with phrase «fleet cars our fleet»

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That's on top of already announced projects like a fleet of self - driving cars.

Five years from now, Zimmer foresees a fully autonomous fleet of cars providing most Lyft rides.

Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.

Local Motion has spent the last few years (initially out of Lemnos Labs, the hardware incubator) developing a small module — a box — that essentially eliminates the need for keys in fleets of cars.

The company now operates in 10 cities, has a fleet of 2,000 cars and 300,000 users, and has grown revenue to more than $ 20 million.

In addition to keyless entry, the module also mines the car's data, looking at things like speed patterns, energy consumption, and other information that would help the fleet managers better train their drivers, and understand how to optimize the system.

The Waymo fleet of self - driving cars has driven three million autonomous miles and simulated over one billion miles.

A new study says a fleet of self - driving cars would be far more efficient than a bunch of error - prone humans.

Add in productivity gains and fuel savings from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.

Now operating in 10 cities, Getaround has 300,000 users, a fleet of 2,000 cars, and revenue of more than $ 20 million.

Ford still plans to roll out a fleet of self - driving cars in an unnamed city in 2021 for ride - sharing, but even these vehicles will only be able to operate under certain conditions.

The EPA said in July that because Americans were buying fewer cars and more SUVs and trucks, it estimated the fleet will average 50.8 mpg to 52.6 mpg in 2025.

Volvo is currently deploying a test fleet of 100 largely autonomous cars among ordinary drivers in Sweden, though the AVs will be restricted to certain roads and speeds.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the car rental service has a fleet of 2,000 vehicles, 10 percent of them hybrids, available to drivers from Toronto to Minneapolis to Boston and Washington, D.C..

There's also an existing fleet of more than 2 billion cars today.

Waymo's self - driving fleet isn't just larger than Uber's (as of March 8, Uber had 43 cars).

He had a taste for flashy cars — his fleet included a Porsche, a Hummer, and a Mustang convertible — and thrill - seeking hobbies like IndyCar racing and hunting with an AK - 47.

Now Google wants to take the next step by designing and building a fleet of 100 driver-less cars — albeit without steering wheels, gas peddles, brakes and mirrors.

Of course, Uber is also outfitting its own fleet of self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purpose.

There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

The Railway Association of Canada did not agree to an interview Wednesday but responded with a cautiously worded statement saying «a three - year phase - out for legacy tank cars marks an important step toward a fleet of cars that will enhance safety.»

While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously tested a fleet of self - driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more than 700,000 miles of robotic driving.

And Toyota has designed the i - ROAD, a small, electric concept car eventually meant to be deployed in urban fleets and shared, similar to the bike shares popping up in many cities.

The turnover in the U.S. car fleet is about 10 years, so if everyone bought an electric car the next time they bought a car, you'd have 95 percent electric cars in 10 years.

And city streets — which are being overcrowded by the influx of ride - hailing vehicles, according to some reports — could become less congested as a ride - sharing fleet moves commuters around en masse, rather than individuals relying on their own cars to get to work.

And transit agencies around the world have been tying their GPS - tracked fleets into Internet systems that can tell riders when the next car is arriving.

Waymo and Uber are part of a crowded and hotly competitive field of automakers and technology companies aiming to build fleets of self - driving cars that could transform urban transportation systems.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

In a world of driverless cars, U.S. auto sales would plummet, vehicle ownership falls 50 % and opportunities in fleet management, tech and mapping arise.

That's partially due to one less selling day in the month and lower demand from fleet customers, like rental car companies.

Eliminating that outlay would likely make up for the new expense of buying, maintaining, and storing a fleet of driverless cars.

Ford is also trying to strike a balance between evolution, with its vehicle lineup's semiautonomous features, and revolution, with its test fleet of driverless cars.

Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis.

The company needs time to build up its fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the vehicles smog tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.

Additionally, Tesla's ride - hailing fleet would consist of cars that have already been bought and paid for, while Uber has to build up its self - driving fleet entirely from scratch.

While apps Uber and Lyft allow almost anyone with a car to provide ride services, Blacklane has a fleet of cars and limousines helmed by professional drivers.

All it has to do to be competitive in the self - driving world is acquire a fleet of cars, or partner with someone willing to handle that side of things.

«You will also be able to add your car to the Tesla shared fleet just by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app and have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and at times potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost...

Fleet ownership is endorsed by Uber but fleet driver compensation appears to be left to the discretion of the car's owner.

In exchange for the fee, members can reserve and drive any of the company's 30 - plus fleet of new and vintage cars.

Ford will roll out a fleet of self - driving cars as part of a ride - sharing or - hailing service by 2021.

Although apparently you no longer see rental car fleets with licenses with something like «AV» or «HZ» in the registration number, rental cars usually carry less obvious identifiers.

«You will also be able to add your car to the Tesla shared fleet just by tapping a button on the Tesla phone app and have it generate income for you while you're at work or on vacation, significantly offsetting and, at times, potentially exceeding the monthly loan or lease cost,» he said.

Whenever one of its autonomous vehicles encounters a difficult driving situation, like bicyclists driving down the wrong side of the road or a child running into the street to retrieve a ball, Google can use the episode to train its entire fleet of self driving cars.

The fleet of self - driving cars — which Uber partnered with Volvo to make — will consist of about a dozen vehicles.

While the company's primary mission is to deploy a self - driving taxi fleet service, it also works with major automakers and suppliers to help these companies develop and build autonomous features for their cars.

Uber is sending a fleet of semi-autonomous cars to pick up passengers in downtown Pittsburgh this month, according to a Bloomberg report.

Google already has a fleet of 48 robot cars that have clocked in more than 2 million miles on private tracks, highways and roads across the U.S.

The automaker will roll out a fleet of self - driving cars that riders will be able to unlock, start and customize at a tap of a button.

At the time of this video, Travis notes that more than 600 black cars were active on Uber and the company was still growing at 20 % month over month (at the time, UberX had just launched, so Uber's fleet was all black cars).