Sentences with phrase «are testing this vehicle»

Waymo has been testing vehicles in Texas, Arizona, Washington State, Nevada, California and launched winter testing on public roads in Michigan.

However, Google has yet to test its vehicles in snowy climates like Michigan — where automakers like Ford, BMW and Nissan are testing their vehicles at the University of Michigan — making the state a promising candidate.

Though NHTSA has been testing vehicle safety since 1978, the Overall Vehicle Score was just added to the mix in 2011.

If you are testing a vehicle, there is no substitute for a thousand miles on the road.

The luxury model is the GLE, which was the test vehicle.

The Nexon compact SUV was first showcased at the last Auto Expo and now the automaker is testing the vehicle near their factory premises.

In the prototype models, one of which was our test vehicle, these are sets of fiberglass add - ons that give this small truck a racy customized appearance.

A part of Fiat - Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), had been testing their vehicles in India for a long time now and had been delaying their arrival into the Indian car market.

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That's especially true for 2010, when the Sport received its first styling update, plus a new engine — a 5.0 - liter V - 8 with 375 horsepower, or a supercharged version of that engine with 510 horsepower, which is the test vehicle.

This particular car is a test vehicle from the factory fleet and as a result, is showing a bit of wear from its road miles.

For example sometimes prototypes were included (e.g. 18 Rolls - Royce Phantom IV, although 1 was a test vehicle and but 17 were delivered to customers) and sometimes prototypes which were «reduced to produce» do not appear in the production figure.

The cars were the test vehicles we featured throughout the year.

The fact that they are testing this vehicle in cold weather climates possibly indicates that they are also testing an all wheel drive system.

You can get a rear - wheel - drive FJ Cruiser, but most are four - wheel - drive, as was the test vehicle: It's a part - time four - wheel - drive, engaged by a dial on the dashboard.

The American Council for an Energy - Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has been testing vehicles for fuel consumption for over 10 years and keeps detailed test records for model years 2000 to present.

It is apparently the 3rd Tesla to crash: The first time «was when a technician was testing the vehicle and ran into the back of a truck.

The company has been testing its vehicles in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, and most recently, Arizona.

Not exact matches

Uber is also testing self - driving vehicles.

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

Zimmer points out that Lyft, in partnership with General Motors, is already testing self - driving vehicles in Phoenix and San Francisco.

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

It also said every vehicle is subjected to rigorous quality control involving more than 500 inspections and tests.

It is not yet clear whether Uber's system was at fault or not in the latest crash, but Uber has now halted all testing of its autonomous vehicles, with no clear timeline for reactivation.

Ford f, Tesla tsla, Uber, Baidu, and Google parent Alphabet are all testing prototypes of self - piloting vehicles on public roads today.

The business has also been experimenting furiously, deploying novel merchandising techniques, such as vehicle test - drive simulators and wayfinding apps, in selected stores.

With 45 cars on the road, Apple is now testing more vehicles than its top rivals.

Forty - two companies, including market leaders like Uber, Waymo, Tesla, and GM, are currently permitted to test vehicles with self - driving features in the state.

Northern Californian neighborhoods are getting ready to welcome autonomous vehicle test drives to their public roads.

Crusan says physics - based simulations are helping NASA planners on the Journey to Mars mission, providing virtual environments to test vehicle and system performance in simulated deep space environments.

«We have a long history of testing new technology — including alternative - fuel trucks — and we are excited to be among the first to pilot this new heavy - duty electric vehicle,» a Walmart spokesperson told Fortune in an email.

«The current limitation of connected vehicle testing outside of a closed circuit test tracks is the lack connected vehicles,» Toyota said in a statement.

Expect to lay out at least a few hundred dollars, depending on how much work needs to be done, says Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing at auto website Edmunds.com.

It's not clear whether those vehicles will be available for sale soon, or simply as test vehicles as the companies perfect the technology.

Since then however, virtually all of the world's major automakers have ramped up self - driving car efforts and are currently testing prototype vehicles with various levels of autonomous capabilities.

This typically indicates an automaker is building the cars on production equipment to test the manufacturing process and the new vehicle.

Autonomous vehicles — like the self - driving cars that are already being road tested — could kill or at least dramatically alter between 2.2 and 3.1 million full - time and part - time U.S. jobs, the CEA has estimated.

The Pegasus platform builds on top of Nvidia's existing Drive PX computing systems that are already used in many self - driving vehicle tests around the world.

NASA has a long history of launching them, and Virgin Galactic — Richard Branson's aerospace company — is now building and testing a suborbital vehicle called SpaceShipTwo.

Waymo is also testing vehicles in Texas, California, and Washington state.

However, Aurora is working on a custom vehicle with Volkswagen that is not quite ready yet, Anderson said, adding those vehicles will also be on the road testing.

The autonomous space craft, blandly called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is intended to «demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space - test platform.&raTest Vehicle, is intended to «demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space - test platform.&ratest platform.»

Aurora is the 37th company to receive an autonomous vehicle testing permit in California, one of several states that have become hotbeds for the development and testing of self - driving cars.

The company plans to start testing early versions of the vehicle, which will be equipped with manual controls, just in case.

At least in early test flights, he continued: There is a «real good chance that that vehicle does not make it to orbit.

We are also testing an all - electric vehicle, so that might be a possibility down the road.

Apple (aapl) said California should revise how companies report self - driving system «disengagements» and said the state should change a proposal «that may restrict both the design and equipment that can be used in test vehicles to further develop autonomous technologies.»

«We're pretty close to sending crew up to the Space Station - that's currently scheduled for the end of next year,» he said, referencing the upcoming Dragon 2 vehicle that SpaceX is testing.

The company has since compiled with California Motor Vehicle Division regulations and was also testing in San Francisco until its decision to pause operations Monday.

It's interesting to note that, so far, the major companies testing self - driving cars have all seen their vehicles involved in accidents.