Sentences with phrase «as a highway car»

Yet it was so smooth as a highway car that it contributed to the acquisition of the only speeding ticket I've had since AUTOMOBILE began.

The Terrain is fine as a highway car (upscale cockpit, good sound insulation).

Not exact matches

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 rangeAs 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 rangeas 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 rangeas 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).

For example, billboards placed along a highway can only be viewed for a short time as people drive by in their cars.

Bhavesh Patel, 39, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a witness saw him sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the driver's seat empty, as it drove along the famous M1 highway on May 21 of last year.

Autopilot is at least as safe as human drivers on the highway, in a car that doesn't use gasoline and performs like a sports car, the magazine said.

One of the direct consequences of the crash is that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) started to investigate 25,000 cars from the same line as with Brown's 2015 Model S.

As of September 2015, there are over 30 models of highway legal all - electric passenger cars and utility vans available for retail sales, mainly in the United States, China, Japan, Western European countries.

Not long ago, technology and automobile companies were talking as though the time was just around the corner when human drivers would be sharing the road with cars and trucks barreling along the highways under machine...

God did too, for in that span of an hour and a half, 15 - 20 people got saved, born again in their cars as we drove down the highway.

As a middle - class white volunteer at work on black voter registration in the Deep South, I rode along a highway one day in a car with three young black men.

As you may have read in a recent piece I wrote about Baynuls, I drank a bunch of Grenache that I did not realize was 16 % ABV and almost peed my pants on the highway in France while behaving «like a rabid cat someone let out of a cage in the car,» according to eye witnesses.

Died Former righthanded reliever Aurelio Lopez, 44, known in the U.S. as Senor Smoke; when he was thrown from his car and it rolled over him on a highway 300 miles north of Mexico City.

The Mexicans, who are caricatured as somnolent, are anything but when they get behind the wheel of a car, and the pros who had to play the holes bordering the highways did so with knees shaking.

Last year the Yates Center News frequently printed stories about its teams on Page One with thick black headlines that were two or three times bigger than other front - page headlines such as GOVERNOR TO BE IN COUNTY or SHERIFF»S CAR GOES OUT OF CONTROL or HORSE KILLED ON HIGHWAY.

Or maybe its because Britax performs twice as many safety tests on their car seats than is required by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

As recommended by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, if you must place a child in a car seat in the front seat and your car has this cut - off switch, disable the air bag for the duration of the ride.

I recommend that all parents get their car seat checked by a certified car seat technician, highway patrol, or a fire dept. Call to schedule an appointment, or as mentioned in the last post, go to the NHTSA website or call your local police or fire department.

For those car seats that can serve as car seat, recliner, and booster, you can check out at the Insurance for Highway Safety (IIHS)

As for the highway overpass, if the projected young professional residents of the warehouse looked past the stream of cars flowing by their windows, they'd have a glorious view of the Hudson River.

There were at least two car - related incidents, including a 15 - year - old Pennsylvania girl being hit by a car as she walked across a highway Tuesday evening while playing the game.

That's what made this country great,» Lazio said, his voice sounding hoarse as he tried to be heard over honking cars and trucks on Sunrise Highway in front of him, and passing LIRR trains a block behind him.

A short walk from the headquarters, on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Gugliero watched as cars sped through the sensors, noting how small a footprint the scaffolding for the system needs — making it a feasible option for tighter roadways like the West Side Highway and the F.D.R. Drive.

Tech - savvy drivers in the US with, say, a recent - model Toyota, can buy hardware from Comma.ai's website — a dashboard camera, an interface to the car's electronic systems — and combine it with the firm's open - source software, openpilot, to create a car that can automatically control acceleration, braking and power - steering systems in specific circumstances, such as driving on a highway.

As part of its Safe Road Trains for the Environment project, known as SARTRE, automakers are designing vehicle systems that would let cars safely tailgate on designated highways in a trainlike procession led by a professional driveAs part of its Safe Road Trains for the Environment project, known as SARTRE, automakers are designing vehicle systems that would let cars safely tailgate on designated highways in a trainlike procession led by a professional driveas SARTRE, automakers are designing vehicle systems that would let cars safely tailgate on designated highways in a trainlike procession led by a professional driver.

The situation is similar to cars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway specars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speCars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speeds.

Exhaust from cars and trucks on nearby highways blankets the area, as well.

Just as knowing every detail about all cars on the highway will never predict traffic, tracking every neural twitch will never reveal a specific mental state.

Among the reasons public transportation has not taken off in the U.S. as it has elsewhere are Americans» love affair with cars and a well - developed highway infrastructure

While they still can't store as much total energy as a fuel cell or a battery, ultracapacitors — also known as electrochemical capacitors — can supply the burst of energy needed to accelerate up a hill or around another car on the highway.

Those concerns are reflected by a Washington state legislator who is quoted as saying, «electric cars will be driving on the highway right along with all the other cars... we believe they should be paying their fair share.»

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) determined as far back as 2003 that cell phone use — both phone calls and text messaging — while driving causes hundreds of thousands of car accidents and hundreds of crash - related deaths.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

In place of cars, these highways are filled with chemical messengers such as dopamine, GABA (gamma - aminobutyric acid) and the feel good hormone serotonin, among others.

;) In typical urban areas, at least half of the ozone pollutants come from cars, buses, trucks, and off - highway mobile sources such as construction vehicles and boat..

«Hough stars as a young bride - to - be who is trapped in her overturned car off a deserted highway after deliberately crashes it in an attempt to escape a charming, predatory hitchhiker (Sears).

This is a suggestive emptiness: a car racing down an empty rural highway, creating suspense; a sky that hangs ominously over a gas station, and then begins to fill with the fiery ribbons of a spy satellite breaking up in the atmosphere; people standing in empty fields and clearings in anticipation of the supernatural; the spotless white space of the test room of a secure government facility; the camera pivoting around NSA analyst Sevier (Adam Driver) as the massive hangars of an Army base flicker on one after another, readying for pursuit.

It's a comedy hardboiled noir, a plastic Black Dahlia with something of PT Anderson's Boogie Nights, Altman's version of Long Goodbye and even some weird touches of Lynch as characters get up from car wrecks to stagger around the highway for a bit.

While driving along a Louisiana highway late one night, she's run off the road, crashing spectacularly as her car rolls down a hill, knocking her out as she comes to a stop.

Social dramas or «message films» expressed powerful lessons, such as the harsh conditions of Southern prison systems in Hell's Highway (1932) and I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932), the plight of wandering groups of young boys on freight cars during the Depression in William Wellman's Wild Boys of the Road (1933), or the lawlessness of mob rule in Fritz Lang's Fury (1936), or the resourcefulness of lifer prisoner and bird expert Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster) in John Frankenheimer's Birdman of Alcatraz (1961), or the tale of a framed, unjustly imprisoned journalist (James Cagney) in Each Dawn I Die (1939).

The film does seem to peak a little too early, as its strong set - up gives way to decent but unextraordinary set pieces, like a county highway car chase.

The two former Presidents discover the plot and are soon dodging bombs, ducking bullets, jumping from trains and playing bump -»em cars on public highways as they try to make their way from Washington to Ohio.

The title Il Soprasso is an Italian term for passing cars on the road, a defining action in the film as speed demon Bruno constantly overtakes cars on the highway like it was a road race.

«We like to say we need to change the tires as the car is driving down the highway.»

I'd seriously hesitate to challenge the M760i on a racetrack as here, along the snake - like Californian highways, it feels like it would be difficult for a host of modern, more purpose - built sports cars to out - run or out - maneuver the supposedly luxury - oriented sedan.

He was a joy to work with as he was understanding and flexible of our circumstances following what... had been a dreadful experience of a day once our former car broke down on the side of the highway.

The drive across the Painted Desert was quite surreal with its petrified logs, as was the equally petrified old car we saw as we crossed a section of historic U.S. Route 66, once the main highway to Los Angeles from Chicago.

Super Cruise will let Cadillac CT6 drivers pilot their new cars hands - off so long as conditions are right and the system can find the middle of the car's lane, on about 160,000 miles of limited - access highway in the U.S. and Canada, mapped by GM and its high - definition mapping partner, Geo Digital.

As a segment, sporty front - drive cars tend to bear some of these characteristics, but competitors from the Forte Koup to the Volkswagen Golf do a better job damping out the worst disruptions and settling in on the highway.

As we entered the Navajo reservation south of Mexican Hat, Utah, on U.S. Highway 191 while traveling to Canyon De Chelly National Monument, the car's trip meter clicked over 1000 miles.