Sentences with phrase «at its vehicle research»

Crash tests and other evaluations conducted at the Vehicle Research Center in Ruckersville, Va., encourage auto manufacturers to make safer vehicles.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently launched such work at its Vehicle Research Center.

In the Jetta test, engineers at the Vehicle Research Center witnessed a first for IIHS crash testing when the driver airbag module detached from the steering column.

The Institute's new sled, which will be installed at the Vehicle Research Center, is similar to this one designed by DSD of Linz, Austria.

Policymakers, industry leaders, researchers and safety advocates gathered at the Vehicle Research Center to discuss ways to reduce deadly underride in crashes with large trucks.

«Inside IIHS: The crash propulsion system» takes viewers underneath the crash hall at the Vehicle Research Center for a peek at the machinery that can propel a vehicle down a runway and into another vehicle or a barrier.

A new crash test sled at the Vehicle Research Center will allow for dynamic testing of head restraints and seats, as well as other testing that doesn't require a whole vehicle.

Not exact matches

The equipment transmits speed and position data from the vehicle to other participating vehicles as well as infrastructure such as traffic signals and research equipment located at intersections or along roadways.

The Japanese car maker will be showing off its «active safety research vehicle, Intelligent Transport Systems and 2013 Lexus LS — equipped with the world's most advanced pre-collision safety system» — at the Consumer Electronics Show this week.

Tal Inbar, the head of the space research center at the Fisher Institute for Air and Space Strategic Studies, observed on Twitter that the reentry vehicle, or the tip of the missile that must return down to earth, was «HUGE.»

At the same time, Musk's Tesla continues to push deeper into the world of AI research itself as it develops machine learning technology for autonomous vehicles.

Blackstone - controlled investment vehicle LocusPoint Networks LLC bought at least 16 stations from San Francisco to Miami, spending $ 66 million since 2012, according to FCC filings and data from research firm SNL Kagan.

All good things about passive ETFs — liquidity, transparency, tax efficiency, low cost — are even greater with an active manager in the ETF vehicle,» says Scott Burns, director of ETF research at Morningstar, in Chicago.

However, despite the downbeat production numbers, Wall St. firm Oppenheimer & Co. documented in a research note sent to investors that Model 3 - specific machinery at Tesla's factory was already operational and vehicles were making their way through the production line.

«There is still skepticism in the market regarding the safety and reliability of electric vehicles, especially ones produced by a new Chinese automobile manufacturer that was previously unknown outside the country,» Marco Mak, head of research at Hong Kong's Tai Fook Securities, said in a research note

As lead research engineer at Cohda Wireless (2004 - 2011), Dr Haley was a principal inventor of the technology that enables Cohda's world leading wireless equipment for vehicle - to - vehicle safety.

«Those three vehicles — the Camry, the Accord and the Altima — have been at the top of the midsize segment for a while,» said Tom Libby, automotive analyst at market - research firm IHS Markit.

Sid Rajeev, Vice President, Head of Research at Fundamental Research Corp., notes, «The Commodities Research Unit («CRU») Group estimates electric car and plug - in hybrid vehicle sales could reach approximately 14.2 million by 2025, up from 0.77 million last year, reflecting a compound average growth rate of 38 per cent per year from 2016 to 2025.»

Otto was the brainchild of a handful of former Google employees who pioneered autonomous vehicle research at the search giant.

Analyst Jamie Albertine at Consumer Edge Research said there was a trade - off between accelerating growth and vehicle quality, and it was better not to rush Model 3 production and risk a recall.

Regenerating organs for patient transplants, research and policy questions for «smart» vehicles, advances in the fight against cancer, and voter participation in elections will be discussed in Austin, Texas at the 2018 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, the...

But the technology has a wide application and there is every possibility that it could be adapted for rail vehicles — especially as Dr Wang has taken up a full - time research post at the University of Huddersfield's Institute of Railway Researcresearch post at the University of Huddersfield's Institute of Railway ResearchResearch (IRR).

Hence, the designers want to make sure that the car body on the screen looks exactly as the real vehicle will appear later,» explains Philipp Slusallek, professor of computer graphics at Saarland University, Scientific Director at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and Director of Research at the Intel Visual Computing Institute at Saarland University.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

Researchers at the University of Michigan Injury Center and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute studied the impact of installing these alcohol ignition interlock devices in all newly purchased vehicles over a 15 - year period; their estimates of injury prevention and cost savings are significant.

Starting out as a volunteer in a lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla — «I was the broom guy,» Goldin recalls — he became involved in a project to design a wave - powered research vehicle.

Wireless power transfer technology may find use in a wide range of applications beyond powering electric vehicles, said Xiaofang Yu, an electrical engineer and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who led the research.

«Software can come in many different forms; it can simulate data, it can incorporate your algorithms, or it can be used for statistical analysis of your results — it's really a geomatics tool that can be used from end to end,» says Cannon, a professor of geomatics engineering at Calgary and an expert in the research and development of satellite navigation tools used by land, marine, and airborne vehicles.

By using the research ship and robotic vehicles together, the NOC team were able to create a series of detailed maps of the site at different scales from tens of kilometres down to a few millimetres.

The material at the heart of the lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles, laptop computers and smartphones has been shown to impair a key soil bacterium, according to new research published online in the journal Chemistry of Materials.

«Whether it's an advanced drive vehicle of any sort — a hybrid, a plug - in hybrid or an electric vehicle (EV)-- the manufacturers are taking it seriously, and they understand it as a growing market,» said Jeremy Acevedo, analyst at the automotive research website Edmunds.com.

It was also at NCI that I experienced first hand how biomedical research can have an impact on the political and economic well being of a country: I worked with Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in using the framework of cancer research as a vehicle to close a political divide.

However safety gets defined and established, self - driving and driverless vehicles will need ways to overcome the skepticism of humans — drivers, passengers, cyclists and pedestrians — by being more transparent, says Brian Lathrop, senior manager of the Electronics Research Lab at Volkswagen Group of America.

The APL, the research and development arm of the Baltimore - based Johns Hopkins University, is proposing to send a probe to Titan under NASA's Discovery Program, which caps budgets at $ 425 million, excluding launch vehicle.

New research presented today at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) found that most child pedestrian injuries involving a motor vehicle occurred while children were unsupervised, near schools and bus stops, and in the spring months during the afternoon and evening hours.

This research was partly based on seafloor sampling at hydrothermal vent sites using the NOC maintained robotic vehicle Isis, which was launched over the side of the RRS James Cook.

The team, at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, is looking at the idea initially as a potential unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).

Steffen Møller - Holst at SINTEF Energy Research believes that battery - powered vehicles will play a very important role in the emission - free transport of the future, but that this will happen in combination with hybrids, rechargeable hybrids and hydrogen - powered vehicles.

The cores from one of the sites will be analyzed at Venice and Grenoble; those from the remaining two will be transported by a research ship equipped with advanced freezing systems — and then by tracked vehicles to the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica research ship equipped with advanced freezing systems — and then by tracked vehicles to the Concordia Research Station in Antarctica Research Station in Antarctica in 2020.

Until their vehicle program was eliminated in 2005, the folks at Langley Research Center planned to roll out three prototypes in sequence: a small prop plane that would tuck its wings in on the highway (it shouldn't cost any more than a Mercedes - Benz); a two - seater with rear - propeller drive; and, for tight parking spots, one capable of vertical takeoff.

«The idea of automated car - sharing vehicle or a ride - sharing service, when you increase the occupancy of a vehicle, the emissions and fuel use overall are going to be split over those individuals, hence they are going to be lower,» said Susan Shaheen, the co-director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on car - research focuses on car - sharing.

For the first time, scientists from the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) will deploy a small fleet of long - range autonomous underwater vehicles (LRAUVs) that have the ability to collect and archive seawater samples automatically.

And the Vehicle Research Institute at Western Washington University is employing a modest $ 250,000 grant to implement its pro-vocative design for a solar - powered electric car incorporating a small gasoline or natural - gas burning engine to extend its range.

Roy has been working with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Wright - Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, since 2001 to study how plasma could be used to control the flow of air — pushing air in different directions — and thereby the vehicle's movements.

So, a group of researchers from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, and the Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing set out to find out what motivates or influences consumer to purchase electric vehicles within seven cities in China.

«These awards communicate a vision that plug - in vehicles are really a critical part of our energy future,» says Marc Duvall, director of electric transportation at the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.

Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, can collect detailed information in real time at relatively low cost for ecological research.

New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to new research

New York City children exposed in the womb to high levels of pollutants in vehicle exhaust had a five times higher risk of attention problems at age 9, according to research by Columbia University scientists published Wednesday.

Another possible research direction is to look at a multivehicle situation where one vehicle can scout ahead and relay information to one or more others — they could possibly have a low shared energy cost by intelligently assigning goals and sharing information.»