Sentences with phrase «allow car companies»

This new policy would allow car companies to test these vehicles without a back up driver as well as steering wheels.

«Smoking and car use have comparable health costs, yet while we have the strictest tobacco promotion laws in the world, we allow car companies to promote themselves unbridled.»

And automaker heavyweights like Bill Ford believe a gas tax would actually stabilize prices, and prevent the fickle drops and spikes gas prices are prone to now — allowing car companies to better predict future price patterns, and make more fuel efficient vehicles accordingly.

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The company's peer - to - peer car sharing platform allows car owners to defray the cost of their vehicles by renting them by the hour or daily to folks who don't want or need wheels 24/7.

On Tuesday, the company announced it is working on an open platform that allows any business to use its autonomous cars for transporting goods.

«There are two ways to connect a car: There's the original telemetry readings, but the new phase, now that we have 4G is infotainment devices, and the vehicle as a hotspot,» says Larry Zibrik, vice-president of Market Development at Sierra Wireless, a Vancouver - based company that's become a global leader in the modules that allow machines to communicate over cellular networks.

GM helps shape self - driving car regulations When Illinois state Rep. Michael Zalewski introduced legislation allowing car makers to run self - driving taxi services, he had help from Mary Barra's company.

Another example is Austin, Texas - based software company Chaotic Moon, which has plans to use Oculus Rift to allow consumers to view and test - drive cars.

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

«Let's be honest, the massive shift toward SUVs and trucks allowed all the car companies to make more money selling fewer cars last year.»

When Chase first started Zipcar, the popular service which allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day, she says she was criticized for not making the company non-profit.

Her newest transportation - alternative company, Buzzcar, allows users to rent out their own cars by the hour.

«Platforms for participation» is a phrase Chase uses to describe Zipcar, the car - rental company she founded over a decade ago now that allows consumers to rent cars by the hour or the day.

Additionally, tech companies will likely opt to team up with automakers to release self - driving cars, allowing them to integrate their technology in more trusted brands.

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.

The move comes a week after the California Public Utilities Commission issued a proposal that would change industry rules, allowing self - driving car companies to begin using driverless cars to transport passengers.

Another Twitter user, @dtweiseth, then joined the conversation to beg Musk for a «refurb» assembly line, allowing owners of older cars to be able to more easily enjoy the company's newer technology rollouts without having to buy a new car.

He's also an entrepreneur, having founded a company called Do Your Park that aims to call out bad parking jobs by allowing customers to slap a small «you suck at parking» citation on the cars of bad parkers.

Ford and Chinese company Baidu recently invested $ 150 million in Velodyne, a manufacturer of a LiDAR system that allows self - driving cars to «see» the world around them.

Companies can select the model and price range of the car, but allow the employee who will be driving it pick the color, for instance.

Providing this service allows our Chairman and our CEO while in transit to work safely and have confidential telephone conversations undisturbed, and thus provides a benefit to the Company that more than offsets the relatively modest incremental cost for their non-business use of a car and driver over the past year.

Chan gave the example of fleet management, allowing companies to see how long their drivers are on the road, and the condition of the car.

The Company offers a website and develops application that allows users to request a car for hire from any mobile device text message.

But even if nothing is stolen from a person's car, allowing a company to know the whereabouts of a vehicle can have significant privacy implications.

HARTFORD — Old and new collided at the General Assembly's transportation committee Wednesday as traditional automakers and Tesla Motors, for a second year, debated a proposal that would allow electric car companies to sell directly to consumers, instead...

Chinese consumers can already buy vehicles online with their smartphones, but the company said its new vending machine model will allow them to browse and purchase their new rides in only five minutes, making «buying cars as easy as buying a can of Coke.»

Not only has Amazon built Alexa into other products, like the all new Echo Plus, Echo Spot, and the Fire HD 10 tablet, but the company has also allowed third - party hardware makers to build Alexa into their own devices, even letting Ford build the assistant into its new cars.

(The Senate bill also limits companies to making autonomous - only cars so long as they sell less than a certain number of units in a given year, capping the number at 15,000 vehicles in the first year, 80,000 in three years, and allowing an unlimited number of cars in the fourth year.)

By contrast, in Chicago a new design allowed the grain to be bulk loaded into cars because the company owned tracks all the way to the docks, where the grain was bulk loaded onto grain boats.

For one it's stupid costly to rent car seats, in my experience rental places want upwards of $ 15 / day or more to rent a single car seat (I have been quoted $ 25 a day) after a few days you can exceed the cost of simply purchasing new... Meaning you could have purchased a brand new in the box car seat and checked that at the luggage counter complete with all it's factory packing that should allow it to arrive undamaged and you now have a backup or travel car seat complete with packaging... Second you have no idea about the condition of that rented car seat, as you imply, unseen damage is well unseen regardless of claims of «inspection» by the rental company, there is no way they can't tell if it's damaged if the damage is unseen, they are only doing visual checks nothing more... In the end there is nothing to assure you that your «rented» car seat will be in any better condition then one you brought with you or that it wasn't in an unreported «accident» from the previous renters or mishandled by the previous renters... If safety is you end goal, renting a car seat at your destination is not inline with that goal...

I work for airline and our company allows only car seats foward facing with 5 point buckle closing.

Had the Affordable Car Act required a 510 (k) device which supports double pumping, this would have closed the door to allowing insurance companies to offer a 510 (k) exempt product like a hand pump, which has no effectiveness standard at all.

«I don't think these companies should be allowed to take away people's cars at all.

In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications from companies interested in testing the vehicles on public roads.

The Government plans to adapt road regulations, which requires changes to the Highway Code, to allow companies to start running trials of cars that do not need a human driver.

The Greenport Village Board voted Thursday to send a letter to County Legislator Al Krupski (D - Cutchogue) asking that the legislature allow a «landing fee» for cars entering Greenport from the North Ferry the next time the ferry company goes before the legislature to seek a fare increase.

Astorino asked the ride - hailing companies to integrate the Thumbs Up program into their apps, allowing users to see beforehand whether their driver has been fingerprinted before ordering the car.

Peer - to - peer car - sharing service Getaround is stepping up advocacy for legislation that would allow it and companies like it to purchase group insurance policies, thereby allowing such companies to operate in New York.

State law allowing companies to tests self - driving cars in New York was due to expire on April 1.

General Motors stepped up campaign contributions to Cuomo and members of the state Legislature this year, as Albany was considering allowing self - driving cars to begin operating in New York — something the company has lobbied on since January 2016.

Rather, Uber executives are left crossing their fingers that the state Legislature will pass a significantly less ambitious bill, one that would allow insurance companies to provide coverage for car - hail apps.

«I'm not going to allow anyone to attempt to save face at the expense of this Council,» an angry - looking Mark - Viverito told reporters at a press conference inside City Hall, one day after she had negotiated a compromise to table a controversial cap on car - hail companies.

But in the absence of federal law regulating the use of autonomous vehicles and driver - assist technology, the U.S. government could simply stand back and allow companies to put more self - driving cars on public roads to collect the necessary safety data, says Alain Kornhauser, a transportation engineer and adviser for Princeton University's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.

«Sold out» is a misnomer; as AFI FEST is officially «presented by Audi», the sponsorship of the car company has allowed the festival to organise free screenings for a few years now.

The ability to increase and decrease production at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant allows the company to continue to meet our customers» desire to keep these special cars exclusive.

Second, SUVs are often not allowed as company cars in many European countries.

Though the mobile wind tunnels have fewer sensors and less data - gathering capability than a traditional one, Ford says it still allows the company to use sensitive audio equipment to check cabin insulation close to where a car is built.

The impending return of TVR to the sports car fold has caused quite a stir in the last few weeks — so much so that the company has decided to allow interested parties to put deposits down for its first car.

Its weight hampered handling — we measured the car at 1283 kg that issue, compared to 914 kg for the Elise SC, but buyers have since discovered other advantages to the Roadster experience: not only are running costs low, but Tesla's policy of continual improvements mean that even now, the company is rolling out an upgrade that allows the car's range to increase from 245 miles to an impressive 340.

By selling more of its cars to traditional customers, Swearingen hopes Mitsubishi can keep values of used models higher, allowing the company to offer lower lease rates and thus grow sales.