Sentences with phrase «as drivers on the road»

In this course, you will learn your responsibilities as a driver on the road, safety driving techniques, Florida laws, rules and regulations, as well as become more aware of the risks drugs and alcohol have on your ability to drive.

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The limits on the system include factors such as Tesla (tsla) being unable to ensure driver attention even when the car is traveling at high speeds, ensuring Autopilot is used only on certain roads and monitoring driver engagement, NTSB said.

For example, ride - hailing apps such as Uber manipulate drivers, who are independent contractors and don't have scheduled shifts, to stay on the road longer.

And during the years after that, we'll see both self - driving cars and cars with human drivers on the road, as the former gradually replaces the latter.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

As is required for Uber's autonomous test vehicles operating on public roads, the AV had a safety driver at the wheel.

SAN FRANCISCO — Walt Martin spent a decade as a long - haul truck driver, logging as many as 200,000 miles a year on the road.

As incentive to get drivers on the road during the storm, Uber imposed a surcharge on top of the basic fare of $ 144.76.

The brutalities of the Chinese regime have also had a toxic effect on China's public moral culture, as was demonstrated last year in a widely - viewed YouTube video: a truck driver in a Chinese city ran over a small child who was crawling across the street, stopped» and then ran over the child again, as if the toddler were so much road - kill.

We have learned to react to sudden and dramatic changes such as the highjacking of aircraft or drunken drivers on the road.

The state's attorney blew snot when he saw me grimace from the blow, after which I proceeded to tell the judge about the beautiful game of golf and how it had been a long and winding road for me since that first purely struck two - wood in 1973, but that I'd finally discovered the proper way to grip a club, and would His Honor really mind if the sheriff would be so kind as to fetch my driver out on the county road and bring it to the courthouse so my new grip could be photographed from all angles for my peace of mind.

Mike Conway, who will compete with Ed Carpenter Racing on road / street courses next season, tested the No. 20 Fuzzy's Vodka entry for the team, with team owner / driver Ed Carpenter in attendance as well.

I'm a licensed race car driver and instructor, and I sure as hell wouldn't attempt that on a public road.

The climb is uneventful except for the moment a lunatic French snowplow driver roars down the hill on the wrong side of the road, merrily blasting snow onto the other side as he rounds a switchback.

GT Le Mans is basically the same as the GTE - Pro class of the WEC, with GT racers based on road - going models like the Chevrolet Corvette and Porsche 911, generally driven by professional drivers.

In a sport dominated for adecade by the German driver Michael Schumacher and his Ferrari team, Montoyawas viewed as an aggressive, risk - taking driver with a rare instinct forpassing on the demanding winding road courses through cities and countryside.His name and mischievous smile were known from Canada to Monaco to Bahrain andChina.

On reaching a section of the road between Nyamebekyere and Nsuta, there was a heap of sand in the lane of the Jeep which was being used for the road maintenance, and the driver in trying to avoid running into the sand, swerved onto the opposite lane and grazed the nearside portion of the bus and plunged into the railings at the edge of the road, killing the three other occupants identified as Francisca Nkansah Kuri aged 27 years, Priscilla Opoku Kwarteng [Ebony], and Lance Corporal Vondee Francis Atsu, aged 29 years.

I'll focus mainly on this, since it eliminates many other variables such as road quality, driver license system, car type / age / quality, driver culture, etc..

Tension arose in Ado Ekiti on Tuesday as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers protested against the arraignment of a driver, Ahmed Kolo, before a Magistrate's Court in Ado Ekiti.

Prompted in part by an accident this past November, NYC taxi regulators are combing through data they collect from cabs and car services as they prepare to propose tighter rules governing how long drivers can be on the road.

I felt that it might have the unintended consequence of increasing DWI accidents, as the most intoxicated drivers would be on the road at an earlier hour when there were more other cars for them to hit.

The bill would allow for charges to be imposed on a driver involved in an accident where a pedestrian, cyclist or other road user suffers injury or death as a result of unsafe driving.

But still, foreign drivers — who number one in eight of all those on the roads — have a huge advantage over British drivers as they pay no road tax or other charges.

She added: «Many of the benefits of using fully trained police officers on the roads can not be counted as easily as speeding drivers caught on cameras, but we hope that finally politicians will recognise and address the damage that is being caused by cutting police officers out of the equation.»

Licences are no guarantee of good performance, as drivers see every day from some of the idiots on the road.

He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.

A 2 a.m. closing time puts more lives at risk as there are more drivers on the road at that time.

As a result, driver safety is reduced, traffic congestion on local roads is increased, and unneeded stress is placed on our local infrastructure.

Two police sergeants were on Monday killed by a driver, Olumiyiwa Emmanuel, as he tried to escape arrest by the officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), along Osogbo - Ilesha rRoad Safety Corps (FRSC), along Osogbo - Ilesha roadroad.

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.

Other intact layers might allow a driver to escape harm, such as scant traffic on the road.

With researchers in the car, the drivers were tested for the extent of their distraction, even as they kept their eyes on the road and hands on the wheel after hitting a voice - command system button.

«Sometimes I hear [the] industry talk about autonomous vehicles as though they're about to put the safest driver on the road,» says Nidhi Kalra, senior information scientist at the nonprofit RAND Corp. «The reality is it's more like putting a teenage driver on the road.»

He compares it to an old joke about a communist bureaucracy: The leaders wanted drivers to switch from the left side of the road to the right, «but because this was a very complicated and delicate matter, they would begin on Monday with only party members switching sides, and everyone else would drive as before.

Their review points to extensive new driver training as a way to help compensate for the unique problems teenage drivers face when it comes to focusing on the road.

The researchers measured blame by looking at more than 50 driver factors coded in the FARS database, including such «unambiguous» factors as driving through a red light or driving on the wrong side of the road.

James Howard Kunstler is the author of many books including (non-fiction) The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, Home A driver caught this shocking footage as two cars and a van are sent flying across a road.

Built as a road movie in its first hour of footage, the film accompanies a truck driver on his way from Kosovo to Belgrade... It's in the whole of this journey where the film seems more robust... [Full review in Spanish]

Following a few misadventurous days in Davis» life, as he loses a friend's cat, sleeps on various sofas, goes on a brief road trip and plays a few gigs, there is no real way of explaining in words the alchemy that takes place that transforms that bare - bones logline into such an engaging film, though Oscar Isaac «s wonderfully soulful, star - making turn has to take a good portion of the credit, with the supporting cast of Justin Timberlake, Carey Mulligan, Adam Driver and Coens regular John Goodman also contributing to the rich tapestry of the film.

We follow him (and a cat or two) over the course of a week, as he wanders through the city and then goes on a road trip with businessman Roland Turner (John Goodman) and his driver («TRON: Legacy» «s Garrett Hedlund) to Chicago, where he hopes to finally get his big break.

John Goodman adds some color (as per usual) as Roland Turner, a jazz musician Llewyn meets on the road who might be more obnoxious than he is; Garrett Hedlund makes a brief appearance as Turner's driver, cigarette un-sharing, beat - poet Johnny Five; and F. Murray Abraham plays up the big whig (or as big as they get at this point) Bud Grossman, a potential label representative Llewyn has been eyeing in Chicago, his possible ticket for getting out of all of this mess.

Based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road follows a college professor (Joaquin Phoenix's Ethan) as he attempts to cope with the death of his young son at the hands of a hit - and - run driver (Mark Ruffalo's Dwight).

The entire picture comes across with just a shred of melodrama, as when Richard is chased by an unknown driver on a back road, though nothing is made of this.

With more than double the track content of 2009's hit, players will enjoy a career as an elite professional driver, competing in off - road racing events on the intense, weather - beaten rally stages of Europe, Africa and the US and pushing car control to the limit in all - new, Gymkhana inspired showpiece challenges.

More than 1,000 children a month are being injured on local roads around our schools despite the Keep - clear road markings that were designed to provide drivers with greater visibility of possible dangers as well as giving pedestrians a better view of the road in both directions.

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

JLR has been developing its «Jaguar Virtual Windscreen» concept that is said to «aid road and track driving,» as well as «Smart Assist» technology that learns driver characteristics to then provide maximum assistance on the road.

At 63.6 million, drivers between the ages of 20 - 34 — generally known as «millennials» — account for nearly one in three drivers on U.S. roads.

We didn't bring up the obvious: that Super Cruise also will make it safe for drivers to make calls and text on their smartphones, so long as their eyes are pointed toward the road.