The only things I found a bit off - putting
about this test car were the blue interior (which clashes a bit with the black buttons on the center stack) and the clutch (which seemed too heavy and long upon first impression but became perfectly familiar after a few gearchanges).
The IROC - Z profile, with its cowcatcher nose and flipped - up tail is a familiar one, and there wasn't anything
about the test car, other than some understated badging, that tipped bystanders to its true nature.
What I appreciated most
about my test car were the comfortable seats and the car's confident driving dynamics.
Of course, we've heard the loudest criticisms
about the test car's custom Ipanema Brown shade (matched to a Cognac brown cabin), but these elements, together with the special alloy rim finish, are intended to showcase the possibilities available to an owner who intends to fully individualise his car.
The chosen few were invited to an introductory event at the Toronto Smart showroom; It was a fascinating evening, where we learned that it is not just
about testing the cars, but about the infrastructure, about how the utility will cope, what it will do to their grid.
We don't know if Faraday Future is being honest
about this test car representing production car spec, and we can't even say that Faraday Future has a production car spec.
Not exact matches
But chances are it didn't give a fig
about the little lab at West Virginia University
testing diesel
cars on American roads.
It's only been
about two weeks since Apple received a permit to
test self - driving
cars.
VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating algorithm in each
car that takes in reams of data —
about atmospheric pressure, how the
car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being
tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.
Fisher admitted, though, that in complaining
about the instrument panel he was getting picky
about a
car Consumer Reports owns and will likely continue to
test, as Tesla improves the Model S with over-the-air software updates in the future.
Between September 1, 2015 and March 22, 2016: Levandowski accessed 347 files on his personal devices that included proprietary information
about his work on Google's self - driving
car project that included «confidential presentations regarding the self - driving
car and its marketing and business plans; videos of features and
test drives of the self - driving
car; pictures of the self - driving
car and multiple components; notes pertaining to plans for the self - driving
car; diagrams of vehicle components marked confidential; system files; software files; and code regarding the self - driving
car.»
The site in Concord, California,
about 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, hopes to lure other carmakers to
test autonomous
cars there.
(But while you puzzle on that one, people are still trying to understand what Trump was on
about in comments from the same speech to donors where he described unfair Japanese trading «
tests» that involved dropping bowling balls on the hoods of
cars.
The revelation that Europe's largest
car maker cheated on emissions
tests can tell us a lot
about an...
In the video, the team at Faraday Future can be seen providing Dahm with tidbits
about the projects taking place behind the scenes, and later an extended
test drive of the 1,000 horsepower, dual - motor electric
car.
Nvidia, which supplies chips for Uber's self - driving
cars, said it's temporarily suspending all of its self - driving
tests on public roads to learn more
about last week's crash in Arizona, a company spokesperson told Recode.
A headline on Thursday with an article
about Uber's
testing of a self - driving
car service in San Francisco misidentified the government body that told the company in a letter that such a service was illegal because the proper permits were not obtained.
And I worried
about the ominous things that happened during the two weeks before my retirement date: a driver ran into my
car and totaled it; our dishwasher, garbage disposal and computer broke down; a manuscript I had submitted for publication was rejected; and my doctor, his face drawn in a frown, told me I had to come in for
tests.
On Saturday, after
testing a Formula E
car before the Mexico City E-Prix, I spoke to several journalists
about the experience.
«Our
car showed a lot of potential in winter
testing and, although we know we still have a lot to work on, we've already learned a lot
about the package and how all the new elements to this year's
car work together.
What is there to get excited
about in terms of coming back to drive an underpowered and unreliable
car, having had no
testing, and probably from the back of the grid?
Fernando certainly knows a thing or two
about racing uncompetitive
cars and after
testing at Daytona, he's realising that he could be
about to spend 24 hours racing another one.
He was reunited with the
car, having completed his first private F1
test in it a few weeks ago (if you didn't know
about that already, what have you been doing the last month or so?)
He's been
testing the
car and talks
about his thoughts on the upcoming season in this video.
Force India have been keeping very quiet
about their 2018 launch but, following the announcement of their driver line - ups for the eight days of
testing, they have since confirmed they will join Toro Rosso in revealing their
car in the pit lane on Monday.
This morning we did a few aero
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The mayor says he just found out driverless
cars will be
tested in the city by reading the press release
about it.
Self - driving
cars are already being
tested on the road, but tricky questions
about their ethics remain.
So far, Volvo's
tests have been limited to three
cars driving
about 16 feet apart at 35 miles per hour, but five -
car tests are scheduled for this fall.
About a dozen
test drivers fill up their fuel cell
cars each week at the Shell hydrogen - refueling station in White Plains, N.Y..
There was something decidedly eerie, though,
about all these impressive
tests: the
car's almost total silence as onlookers watched it winding out and tearing up the track.
THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: At the end of 2011 there were several news stories
about how a battery in the Chevy Volt, GM's first mainstream electric vehicle since the EV1, caught fire several weeks after the
car was subject to crash
testing.
It is almost as if the man who made a tv show
about nothing but incessant talking wanted to make a bee movie with the same premise, but
test screenings left the audience so despairing that scenes featuring Barry trying to stay alive within the machinery of a
car or negotiating the impossibly complicated honey factory equipment had to be inserted to keep the children docile.
When asked
about VR mode for a driving game and things like motion sickness, the developers swore up and down that they've had successful play
tests, including an anecdote
about a guy reeling from a previous VR demo finding comfort and even recovery sitting down with Project
Cars 2.
That goal, which doubles as Diaz's own insistently self - deprecating joke
about her flat chest, drives Elizabeth to do all sorts of disreputable things, like steal proceeds from a school
car wash (where she reels in customers via a skimpy Daisy Dukes outfit) and compete for a salary bonus by drugging a state official (Thomas Lennon) and filching a
test so that her class will perform better than all others, and especially that of ultra-cheery rival Amy (Lucy Punch).
Anyone with even a passing interest in science fiction, or in the latest advances out of Silicon Valley, surely gets a kick thinking
about Google's self - driving
cars, now under development and ready for road
testing.
Another would read
about driverless
cars, another
about drones, and another
about robotic graders used for essays on
tests.
As road
test editor Marc Noordeloos aptly pointed out, «This
car reminds me of that old line
about 911s: They always do exactly what you ask of them, even if it's the wrong thing.»
The small, dash - mounted display screen with a rotary knob on the center console is a nice feature (even though we complained
about the software logic), and the system has the ability to adapt to the evolution of apps, much like the connectivity systems in a few the other
cars in this
test.
The track -
test car was covered with camouflage to hide a mid-cycle refresh for the Gen V Camaro,
about to enter its fourth year.
The
car was great but I wanted to be sure
about my choice and Suditi generously encouraged me to
test drive every model I wanted to consider.
PRICE AS
TESTED: $ 22,870 Akio Toyoda, the CEO of Toyota Motor Company, has talked a lot
about making mainstream
cars more exciting and youthful.