Sentences with phrase «instead of parking your car»

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Instead of yelling at the guy who cut you off or getting stuck in a blocked - in parking spot, General Motors China says it has a solution: It's called DiDi Plate, and it lets Android users text any car owner by scanning their license plate with their phone's camera and sending it to a cloud ID service.

Click (buy online) and pick (drive to the store to get it) has become amazingly popular — especially with moms who'd rather throw the kids in the car and make three quick pickups at her favorite stores, without parking, instead of sitting at home and hoping for the delivery guy to show.

So, instead of visits to the zoo or park this weekend, we have been from car sales cosmos to showroom underworlds.

Then they put their hands on the gas cover, which means they're standing safely right next to the car instead of running off into the parking lot the moment they're out of their car seats.

Instead of taking the family car, she and her son took the «L» to Grant Park for the Chicago Park District's Earth Day cleanup.

Instead of reading a story, tell your child a story, anytime, anywhere — in the car doing errands, while taking a walk to the park, etc..

«The Chairman of the Finance committee of Parliament, siding with our tax - and - waste government instead of We the People, has told Ghanaians who think the tax - heavy price of petrol is unbearable to park their cars and walk or get on our non-existent London public transportation,» he adds

Instead Oxfordshire county council is building a memorial garden «with a great deal of car parking», Mr Robathan said.

And cars that drive themselves also park themselves, leaving human beings to enjoy their cities the way they were meant to be: with parks instead of parking lots.

Instead of paying for work to improve woodland habitats, the grant will be spent on car parks, signs and picnic areas — to improve public access to woodlands

This means that you should take the stairs instead of the elevator or the escalator, walk to your destination if it's near instead of driving, stand instead of sitting whenever possible and park as farther away as you humanly can when you're out with your car.

Park your car as far away from the store as you can so you have to walk; use the stairs instead of the elevators or escalators.

Parking your car further from your office, store, train station, etc., taking the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator, walking at a brisk pace rather than a stroll are some of these.

Adding more activity into your day by taking the stairs instead of the elevator, parking your car further from the door, or taking short walks at lunch or breaks can make a difference in your health and help you to produce less insulin.

- At work, park your car as far as you can from the entrance and take the stairs instead of the elevator.

It's about things like biking to the grocery store and parking your car in the back of the lot and walking instead of taking a cab and catching up with friends on a hiking trail instead of a bar stool.»

For example, parking your car further away at stores, getting off the bus or subway a few stops earlier, dancing more at home or out, walking down the hallway to talk to a co-worker instead of emailing them are all forms of physical activity.

Many astute Dream Cruisers have long parked their cars Saturday in favor of biking up and down Woodward, including my Motor Trend colleague Frank Markus, but the fact that more and more observers are biking instead of driving might start to mitigate the problem of regular traffic — new SUVs and minivans — clogging up the classic cruisers to the detriment of their cars» radiators.

Other tech gadgetry on the car includes the head - up display (also $ 1,700), the 3D surround view ($ 700, also adds parking assistant plus), Apple CarPlay that works over Bluetooth instead of via the USB cable ($ 300), a Wi - Fi hotspot (part of the $ 1,200 Executive Package, which also adds wireless charging, ceramic controls, and soft - close doors), and gesture control ($ 190), the last of which seems like a gimmick.

Next time you have this problem, instead of letting the car roll, I would move the shifter into and out of park once or many times to try to remove enough oxidation to see if you can get it to crank.

Another disadvantage to using the key fob instead of an old fashioned key is the convoluted process of hitting the start / stop button twice to shut down the engine and all the electronics inside the car each time you park.

Production won't start until 2018, but the car on display showed off a number of high - tech features, including facial recognition instead of a key, cameras instead of mirrors and driverless valet parking.

Having the car for 2 months and couple National Park road - trips and camping trips, I wish I would take AWD instead of FWD.

Instead of the fly - off manual handbrake sited outboard of the driver's seat (as has been common to Astons for decades), you now get an automatic parking brake — which does rob the car of a little sense of occasion.

The historic car will not be for sale but will instead be donated to the Bavarian Forest Naitonal Park, the oldest park reserve in all of Germany since it was opened in 1970 - two years before the 5 - Series went into productPark, the oldest park reserve in all of Germany since it was opened in 1970 - two years before the 5 - Series went into productpark reserve in all of Germany since it was opened in 1970 - two years before the 5 - Series went into production.

The new car features an electric parking brake, activated with a switch instead of a handle, and the automatic transmission is controlled by a rotary dial.

Instead of having to cram my one and four year olds into their car seats, my four - year - old can now climb into the vehicle himself and even have room to walk around (while parked, of course)!

That feedback manifests itself in a number of ways including Lane Departure Warnings, Traffic Sign Recognition, Automatic High Beam Assist, Flank guard (helps with parking), Adaptive Cruise (which now brings the car to a stop instead of giving up when you slow down as it used to), Blind Spot Monitor, Closing Vehicle Sensing (which tells you when another car is bearing down on you quickly) and Reverse Traffic Detection.

Watch out for common phrases and cultural differences — parking lot instead of car park, elevator instead of lift and don't get me started on vests and pants!

However, instead of taking her to a movie, he parks the car in a remote section of Lower Manhattan and, after a few cryptic proclamations, stabs her in the neck.Lucas Ford — a breathtaking angel with remarkable powers, swoops down and saves her.

If you live in a city and often have to park your car on a street (instead of in a garage), then it makes sense that your car maybe more exposed to the risk of theft, for example.

Leave your dog at home instead of in a parked car when temperatures exceed 80 degrees.

If you are parking for over 4 hours, instead of using the Short Stay car park which tends to be expensive, you can save money by booking your airport parking in advance with Holiday Extras.

Instead of rolling vineyards spread before us, we saw a potholed parking lot inhabited by a few old cars and a mangy dog.

Instead of taking the Milford Walkway, you can choose to take the shuttle bus that leaves from the visitor centre near the car park.

Instead of spending time moving or parking your car, you can kick back and relax!

This is why we decided to write a guide to walk the Zhangjiajie Natural park to help any other hiker who wants to get lost in nature and walk the immense park instead of relying on the elevator and the cable car.

As for the parking, I unfortunately have a long driveway instead of a wide one, so one lot of guests have to park in the driveway and the other under the balcony, That leaves me to park in the driveway too so that all our cars can be safe.

Eventually, it is within our technical ability to create factories that clean the air as they work, cars that give off drinkable water, industry that creates parks instead of dumps, or even monitoring systems that allow nature to thrive in our cities, neighborhoods, lawns and homes.

So, you could plan your route and your parking space with direct access into the centre of town by the nearest tube or bus stop, instead of driving to a car park or congested street that is further than necessary because there are no other options.

TreeHugger promotes cycling as perhaps the best way to get around a city, but how many serious door prizes and deaths is it going to take before they make the city safe for cyclists, instead of forcing us into a two foot wide space between streetcar tracks and parked cars filled with people who don't know how to use a mirror?

When it comes to exercise we have all heard the tips about taking the stairs instead of the escalator or parking the car farther away.

You can also save money on car insurance by parking your car in the garage every night instead of out on the street and driving less per year.

If you live in a city and often have to park your car on a street (instead of in a garage), then it makes sense that your car maybe more exposed to the risk of theft, for example.

In an attempt to cut corners, you might skimp on buying extra interview suits or take the train into the job interview instead of driving your car and paying for private parking.

But when you get close to your destination, park your car a few blocks away instead of right in front.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.