Sentences with phrase «r street car»

Aerodynamics are also based on those found in the GT R street car, but optimized for track usage.

Production - car - based customer racing is a giant part of the game in sports - car competition, with Audi Sport — it's responsible for the RS street cars and customer racing programs — so far delivering more than 200 R8 GT3 - spec cars worldwide (60 in the U.S.).

The 2018 RS 5 is one of the first standard bearers of the new - look Audi Sport division, which has reorganized the brand's RS street car and customer race car efforts under one flag.

The result is a street car and a race car that seem less like distant cousins than fraternal twins.

Porsche says this look is very similar to its 911 GT2 RS street car.

Suspension was upgraded with a select combination of products assembled by BMR Suspension, that according to Ben, is a street car package designed to eliminate wheel hop without adding a lot of noise vibration and harshness (NVH).

«You start challenging the car and it gives you everything you ask of it; you tend to forget it's a street car.

Not exact matches

We've set up decoys for some of our high - profile clients when the paparazzi are out on the street — we'd have a car go in one direction, and they'd go out the back.

Car - carrying trains, known as «auto racks,» being assembled in Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard in Kansas City, Kansas.

We made calculations that if between 15 and 20 per cent of all cyclists today were to shift to cars, in several streets traffic would completely stand still.»

Some of the people you'll hear spreading anti-Semitic views are blatant apologists for extremism, justifying a car barreling into an Israeli bus stop or a random knife attack on the street as a legitimate expression of frustration at the lack of a Palestinian state, Jewish victims be damned.

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

«All I want is a car that will run on the current streets,» he explained.

has a trust a problem on Wall Street, but there's no denying Tesla makes great cars, says Oppenheimer's Colin Rusch.

Shop along the Laugavegur, the main shopping street, which is closed to cars (just don't try to pronounce it).

Toyota, the world's largest automaker, is sending 5,000 connected cars that can wirelessly communicate with other vehicles and infrastructure onto the streets of Ann Arbor, Mich., in a real - world experiment designed to move autonomous driving closer to reality.

Drive.ai, for instance, a startup that came out of Stanford's A.I. Lab, is developing a system for autonomous cars to communicate with pedestrians crossing the street.

On most city streets, the equivalent of two car widths are taken up for parking.

Before they parachuted their cars out of airplanes and did jobs for the military across the globe, the characters of the «Fast and Furious» franchise were just street racers looking for a rush.

As you wander around, perhaps stopping to stare at the impossibly steep Lombard Street or to ride a trolley car, be aware — as Rudyard Kipling said, «San Francisco has only one drawback.

Just four states — California, Nevada, Florida and Michigan — and Washington, D.C., have formally opened public streets to testing of self - driving cars, though testing is probably legal nearly everywhere (because it is not expressly banned).

They drove through a neighborhood near Coffey Park where entire streets are wrecked, with only burned - out cars and charred remains of once - standing houses lining the streets.

LOS ANGELES, CA - JANUARY 31: Vice squad officers of the Los Angeles Police Department guide a hand - cuffed woman to a patrol car January 31, 2013 before she's brought to South Central's 77th Street Division station on a charge of prostitution in Los Angeles, California.

After all, while pipelines may fuel many of the cars on the road today, the future is a one - way street — and there's no question which direction it's headed.

It was a huge year for robot cars, with both Nevada and California making them street legal.

The ritual mandates the absence of work, entertainment and travel, which makes for a 24 - hour period during which no flights are allowed in or out, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

On Day of Silence no flights are allowed in or out of the island, electricity use is limited and cars are prohibited on the streets.

Within two hours the street was an island and no one was able to get their cars out.

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.

Especially if you have a day job, it's probably unrealistic to find the time to pour over financial statements and speculate on earnings reports in hopes of competing with Wall Street analysts who use satellite images to count the number of cars in the parking lots of major retailers.

«Frankly, this car, although it passed all the regulatory requirements for a street - legal car, was completely unsafe,» said Musk.

Uber Technologies can legally put its self - driving cars back on California streets after securing the necessary permit from state regulators, the company said on Wednesday, although passengers will not immediately be allowed in the backseat.

In New York, the size of Wall Street's bonus pool is a particular fascination for many given how it ripples through the local economy, from spending on real estate and travel to, restaurants, entertainment, luxury cars, jewelry and fashion.

Frank DiMatteo, author of The President Street Boys: Growing Up Mafia, was a close associate of the Gallo crime family and also drove getaway cars for the Mafia.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

I was walking down the street the other day and as I crossed a driveway a car came speeding out, the driver didn't slow down at all, missing me by a few inches.

How do you think this sort of thing is going to fit in with robot cars, which are now street legal in several U.S. states?

Wall Street analysts, most of whom know the traditional auto industry quite well and are experts on how cars have been manufactured since the 1980s, will dutifully ask Musk various technical questions about factory operations and engineering challenges and robots and stuff.

Passengers looking to catch an Uber may see more cars chugging along the streets of their smartphone screens than are actually in their area, according to Motherboard.

Currently, the tech titan currently has 53 self - driving cars on the streets of Mountain View, Calif., and Austin, Texas, according to the most recent report from Google on it's self - driving car project.

The cars will be hitting the streets of Pittsburgh in August, where those hailing an Uber may get a chance to ride in one with human supervision in the driver seat.

The company is also subjecting cars to potentially dangerous situations, which would be unwise to do on city streets.

When you look across the street to the other side, many cars are zooming past your line of vision.

When top - earners on Wall Street are busy shopping for exotic sports cars and second homes while unemployment and food stamp benefits are allowed to expire for the bottom tier, resentments are bound to fester no matter how hard the pitch for trickle - down economics.

The controversy surrounds the production of Tesla's Model 3, which is the electric car maker's maiden vehicle designed for the mainstream, and the company's cash burn, the latter of which took Wall Street by surprise.

Once you cover your traffic lights in sensors, it's easier to turn them into air - quality monitors, too; as long as you're redesigning streets around driverless cars, you can also think about what the delivery robots need.

That said, the screen showing what's ahead on the street, pedestrians crossing the road or other cars turning in front of us was easy to understand.

In the latest episode of Uber's brush with the California DMV, the company announced that it is shipping to Arizona the 16 self - driving cars it pulled off the streets of San Francisco.

Ford, the U.S. automaker, is preparing to deploy self - driving cars on the streets of South Beach and greater Miami.

Faster speeds and lower latency will also be critical for autonomous cars, which must make near - instant decisions should a kick dart out onto the street.