Sentences with phrase «average miles driven»

Senior drivers are often eligible for retirement discounts, reflecting the lower average miles driven by this age group.

Now, of course you have to make a lot of assumptions abut how many cars there are, average emission standards, average miles driven and so forth.

Logistics and shipping efficiency have been a focus for us at Healthy Pet, where our bi-coastal supply system effectively reduces, by 20 percent, the average miles driven to our customers while also shortening lead times.

Please, don't be tempted to tell lie about the average mile you drive to your insurer.

Drive less: Have you ever wondered why some car insurance companies will ask about the average miles you drive per annum?

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Recode obtained documents that show Uber's self - driving cars require the human standby driver to take control an average 10 times for every 8 miles of driving.

According to company surveys, the average Zipcar member drove 5,295 miles per year before joining the service and now drives just 369 miles annually.

The analysis assumed each car drove 15,000 miles — roughly the national average — at a rate of 30 kilowatt hours of electricity per 100 miles, based on the median mileage rate for Tesla Model 3 and Model S vehicles, according to figures reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

I drive perhaps 3 - 5 miles a day regullarily, and count, on average, more than 25 violations each day, mostly failure to yield or failure to signal.

For example: During the week ending March 8, the 43 active cars on the road only drove an average of close to 0.8 miles before the safety driver had to take over for one reason or another.

At the end of January, drivers only needed to take over after an average of 125 miles driven, but that dropped to about once per 50 miles the first week of February.

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

Ennie Argence of New Orleans, driving the hydroplane Gun Shy in the championships of the National Inboard Hydroplane meet at Cape Coral, Fla., established a five - mile competitive speed record in the 266 - cubic - inch class, averaged 80.501 mph.

MOTOR SPORTS — WALT HANSGEN, West - field, N.J. throttle jockey, roared Briggs Cunningham's new Lister Jaguar up to 120 mph on straightaway, drove front - running race to win 80 - mile President's Cup feature with 75 - mph average at Upper Marlboro, Md..

Nicholas, driving a British - built B.S.A., averaged 69.76 mph, led all the way over the two - mile course.

BOATING — TOM D'EATH, driving Miss Budweiser, won the Gold Cup, unlimited hydroplane racing's oldest and most prestigious trophy, by completing six laps of the 2 1/2 - mile Mission Bay course off San Diego at an average speed of 124.593 mph.

MOTOR SPORTS — STIRLING MOSS, driving a Lotus, averaged 72.3 mph over a flooded 100 - mile course to win the New Zealand Grand Prix, in Auckland.

MOTOR SPORTS — CALE YARBOROUGH drove a Pontiac to victory in the $ 1 million Daytona 500, averaging 155.979 mph around the 2.5 - mile oval.

MOTOR SPORTS — GEOFF BODINE, driving a Chevrolet Monte Carlo, averaged 80.908 mph around Nashville International Raceway's.596 - mile banked oval to win a $ 206,000, 250 - mile Grand National stock car race.

MOTOR SPORTS — DALE EARNHARDT, driving a Chevrolet Lumina, beat Ernie Irvan, also in a Chevrolet Lumina, by 4.08 seconds, to win a NASCAR event in Darlington, S.C. Earnhardt averaged 123.141 mph over the 367 laps of the 1.366 - mile oval and earned $ 205,350.

That means that there are 38 BILLION miles of drunk driving each year, or 126 miles PER PERSON (on average).

This is equivalent to nearly 7000 million miles driven by an average passenger vehicle or 1.03 million tons of waste sent to landfill sites.

7 The motor vehicle fatality rate in the United States — the average number of deaths per passenger - mile of driving — has dropped by roughly 80 percent in the past half century.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

On average, each of the 25.5 billion miles Americans drove while under the influence in 2010 cost the economy 12 jobs and reduced national economic output by $ 0.80 and GDP by $ 0.40.

«Using the average U.S. electricity rate of nine cents per kilowatt - hour (kWh), 30 miles of electric driving will cost 81 cents,» the group maintains.

Some 59 miles of driving on the highway and twisting mountain lanes uses up 22 kilowatt - hours with an average energy of 377 watt - hours per mile, during a recent test drive.

The average American can drive 8600 miles on the gas we're saving per truck.

We estimate that the average difference between a school within two miles and a school within two to five miles is roughly six additional driving minutes for families in both rural and urban areas.

For our sample of rural Census blocks, a great - circle mile is, on average, equivalent to a 4 - minute drive to the nearest school.

Fuel economy isn't bad, either; according to the trip computer, I averaged 24 mpg over a 385 - mile trip (more than one tankful), in a mixture of freeway and two - lane driving.

I drove 90.5 miles, which included 44.1 EV - only miles, for an indicated average of 39.4 mpg; I plugged in twice, charging from zero to 100 percent.

I drove the A8 347 miles in mixed conditions and returned 29.8 mpg, with speeds averaging 30 mph.

As a courier driving my own car making small deliveries, I average over 70,000 per year and my last 2 cars I drove over 400,000 miles.

We averaged an indicated 2.2 L / 100 km over about 30 miles of mixed driving, equivalent to an astonishing 107 mpg, but only because the majority of those miles were covered in E-Power mode with the engine switched off.

I drove our test Honda CR - Z 154 miles over a weekend and averaged 35 mpg according to the readout on the dash.

Based on driving 15,000 miles per year, depending on vehicle type, owning and operating a vehicle can cost an average of 60.8 cents per mile or $ 9,722 per year.

Juechter says that on the street in Eco mode, his best twenty - five - mile drive averaged 37.2 mpg.

he currently drives a 2000 BMW 3 Series with over 200,000 miles, which still gets on average 25 MPG and is an extremely comfortable drive.

Over some 600 journalist - driven miles, the trip computer reported an average of 24 mpg, which is quite impressive.

The trip computer says that, over about 600 miles of driving done by all the editors since the car arrived in our fleet, we averaged 39 mpg.

I've been driving the car in - town 10 miles round - trip to and from work for about half of the summer, otherwise we were only driving it occasionally (maybe once a month on average).

I do a lot of highway driving and am averaging about 475 - 500 miles per tank.

That may explain why this test car averaged just under 30 mpg over 210 miles of mostly in - town driving.

A total of 38 miles were driven at an average of 63 mph (not including accelerating to speed or coasting to exit the freeway).

Ten 2 - person teams drive the three vehicles for 300 miles (483 km) through Maryland and Virginia and score an overall average of between 27.7 mpg (8.5 L / 100 km) and 35.4 mpg (6.6 L / 100 km).

As Subaru will proudly tell you, the STI - prepped Legacy Turbo also broke an FIA World Speed Endurance Record in January of that year, averaging 138 mph as it drove 62,000 miles over 20 days.

As far as gas mileage, I am averaging 26.4 with 75 % of my first 7,000 miles being highway driving.