Sentences with phrase «as the driver took»

The hum of 16 open - wheeled Formula Rookie vehicles start to fill the air as drivers take to the starting grid for the second and final race of the championship; the first race weekend of 2015.
The differential was unlocked as soon as the driver took his or her foot off the gas, thus the ABS was always functional when it was needed.
Therefore we will advise you on driving on the sand first of all inform you about the tides and also the inland roads and finally the speed signs on the Island another perfect holiday if you as a driver take note of the sign posted direction signs on the inland road since you can also while you are driving miss them and therefore ended somewhere else.
You could feel the kart sling about with a light racer clinging to the back as the driver took on a sharp curve, while heavy racers made it difficult to cut the angle just right.
The auto crash rates have been steadily declining in the state as drivers take more care while on the road and enforcement programs have stepped up.
Texting while driving has drawn a great deal of attention over the last few years, as drivers take their eyes from the road and look to their tiny screens and keyboards to communicate with friends, family, and business contacts.
However, some points can be eliminated as the driver takes a driving school course as ordered by the court.

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Fear of losing what you've earned can squelch the drivers of your dream such as risk - taking, innovation and ambition.
As older citizens relinquish their driver's licenses, there's opportunity for driving seniors to places they can no longer take themselves.
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Every day the hardware guys are losing more and more of their share of the actual value in each vehicle as the software and the sensors take over the driver's experience.
Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).
(As independent contractors, currently drivers take on all the risks and costs associated with maintaining, fueling, and insuring their cars).
But original content is the main driver, Netflix explained in its earnings letter to shareholders last week, as it tried to allay fears about it taking on too much debt.
Peggy Young started working for UPS in 1999; in 2002, she took on a part - time role as a truck driver, picking up air shipments.
On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.
As a result, Krafcik says Waymo's test drivers now take control of the vehicle and disengage the autonomous - drive system approximately once every five thousand miles driven.
Some of those issues are driven by a trend for drivers to take maximum - and unhelpful - advantage of the inducements offered by Uber as it attempts to gain a foothold.
There was the customer heading to Midtown Manhattan whose driver took an «inefficient route,» as Uber reportedly deemed it.
At least a handful of times, Uber drivers have been accused of taking riders on «rides of hell,» some of which could be classified as outright abductions.
If you've had your fingerprints taken as part of a background check to, say, get a driver's license or a job, or to buy a gun, the results likely live in the FBI's Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS).
It leads to a more collaborative and less hierarchical society, since a CEO in civilian life may end up taking orders from a taxi driver in the service, as well as future business partnerships.
When he was appointed three years ago, Poloz assumed non-energy exports and business investment would take over from household spending and housing as drivers of economic growth.
It is misguided, he says, to assess an airport's value solely by its operational profitability; its role as an economic driver also needs to be taken into account.
Some studies claim that for every 10 % increase in capacity, there is a 9 % increase in vehicle miles travelled four years after expansion, as drivers who previously parked their cars take to the roads.
Earlier Tuesday, the company emailed its drivers, who work as contractors, to let them know they would soon be allowed to take tips, which drivers had not been able to accept previously.
Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.
Shawn Carolan, Managing Director of Menlo Ventures and an early investor in Uber, took to Twitter to sing Kalanick's praises, saying he «has done a lot of good and created millions of opportunities for drivers with his talent and tireless devotion to Uber's mission: «make transportation as reliable as running water.»»
But she quickly took issue with Uber's policy of classifying drivers as independent contractors.
Krafcik's optimism comes as automakers like Tesla market features like Autopilot, which allows drivers to take their hands off the wheel for short periods of time.
As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireAs the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy requireas one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?
The geopolitical risk premium has taken center stage as one of the key drivers of oil prices in recent months, often trumping fundamentals to send...
Since Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella took the helm in 2014, Microsoft's cloud business — which includes products such as Office 365, Dynamic 365 and Azure computing platform — has emerged as a major growth driver.
Political affiliation emerges as another key driver of opinion, with past Conservative Party of Canada voters overwhelmingly taking Alberta's side.
As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.
For example, the driver took control 27 times as a precautionary measure when there was heavy pedestrian traffic.
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.
It should not put lives at risk, damage its reputation, or risk the success of its systems — or driver assist technology as a whole — by failing to take steps that would better protect consumers» safety.
As of March 2017, the company's safety drivers had to take over the autonomous system once every.8 miles.
The ATA also reported that transportation companies are taking steps to attract drivers, such as pay increases and signing bonuses.
As of earlier this year, the company's cars had to be taken over by a human driver once every.8 miles, according to documents Recode first obtained.
We took a 31 year - old married man as a sample driver and analyzed his insurance rates across the city.
We expect earnings growth to take over from multiple expansion as a driver of returns, and the decline in risk premia to largely be offset by a rise in underlying government bond yields.
Contrary to demonstrating the outright dangers of texting while driving, it told young drivers in the video who were taking their driving test to text as they drive in order to pass the test.
No, but rather it may have taken an engineer quite a while to blend all these as «one» for the comfort of the driver.
I have noticed in Israel, for example, that there is no such thing as queuing up at a bus stop or a ticket office — one often feels fortunate that bus drivers bother taking the same route each time or that tickets are printed at all.
The morning I was scheduled to take the driver's test, my pal Butch, who drives an Audi TT, offered to accompany me, as a «licensed driver», to the Ohio State Motor Vehicle Bureau.
Edwin Graning, who was hired as a driver on April 1, 2009, was «concerned that he might be transporting a client to undergo an abortion» when he was assigned to take two women to Planned Parenthood, according to his lawsuit, filed this week in U.S. District Court in Austin.
As I pray I sometimes visualise taking my hands off the steering wheel and allowing God to sit in the driver's seat.
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