Sentences with phrase «by drivers in cars»

The insurance company assesses a risk factor to your car based upon claims made by drivers in cars matching your car's characteristics.

Not exact matches

Founded in 2007 by Zimmer and co-founder Logan Green, Lyft's business model is fairly straighforward, even if it operates in a legal gray area: The company recruits and (background - checks) city car owners to become become part - time taxi drivers, who set the hours they wish to work.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

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).

San Francisco - based Breeze, founded this year, offers customers week - by - week access to vehicles they can use to support jobs as drivers for Uber, Lyft and other sharing - economy platforms; co-founder Jeffrey Pang describes the service as an «equalizer» for those who want to get in on the action but don't have cars of their own.

Drivers can charge their car at night just by plugging it in when they get home.

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

But by 2019 or 2020, «we'll have removed drivers from the car,» Glen DeVos, Delphi's vice president of engineering said in an interview.

Like a heavyweight boxer whose momentum had turned, Kalanick has taken punch after punch this year, from the outrage in January over his association with Donald Trump, to the widely - viewed video of his berating an Uber driver, to the explosive blog post by an ex-employee alleging systemic sexual discrimination at Uber, to Google's (googl) charges of theft of its self - driving car technology.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

If a self - driving car is available when one of these customers hails an UberX, they will be greeted by a car with close to two dozen cameras and sensors, along with one engineer and one «safety driver» in the front seats.

Official taxis in Beijing from inside a car driven by an Uber driver.

In May last year, The Economic Times reported that State Bank of India had suspended car loans for Uber and Ola taxis, following loan defaults of about Rs 120 crore due to non-payment of dues by drivers.

License plates issued for company cars include letter codes — understood by everyone in Wolfsburg — that signify whether the driver is a high - ranking Volkswagen manager or even a manager's spouse.

The crash involving a Tesla Model S car in China may have been caused by its automated driver - assist system.

The mood has not been helped by Kalanick, who told me onstage in an interview I did in May that driverless cars would someday negate the need for drivers at all (he later tweeted that it would take until 2035, so chillax, but the damage was done).

During the call, Musk also gave details on Tesla's upcoming ride - hailing network, which he says would allow drivers to own their cars completely, but be able to specify when its not in use to be rented out by other drivers.

As Autopilot technology continues to be developed, more advanced functionality will be made available to Tesla owners over time nearing full self - driving capabilities; however, until truly driverless cars are developed and approved by regulators, the driver is responsible for and must remain in control of their car at all times.

I did a stint as a driver with Uber here in Seattle and almost turned it into a full time business by hiring other cars / drivers.

In the second experiment, the Tesla S 75D system's screen was completely taken over by the hackers such that the driver was not able to control the car on his own.

He is a former singer / songwriter who was abandoned at birth who had his music career tragically ended by a reckless driver in a car accident.

But for Uber, such cars are not a side bet but a way to be more fully in control of its business by eliminating the need for drivers who expect to be paid.

«Was harassed and scammed by an Uber driver for two hours in the car,» reviewer «Jorwl» wrote on Feb. 20.

His legacy as one of the world's greatest race car drivers in history lives on in a film directed by Asif Kapadia.

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

The process was going to rob me of the little strength I have as a person living with debilitating pain in 15 areas of my body, since 1985 when my car was hit head on by a truck driven by a drunk driver.

Loose or ill - fitting straps could cause a driver to move around in the car under the huge G - forces generated by the car, and any distractions are obviously going to have a negative impact on performance.

There are a number of reasons for this - as well as the obvious loss of downforce, by following in the wake of another car the dirty air generated causes the follower to slide around and overheat their tyres, which makes the idea of a driver dropping a couple of seconds behind a rival a more effective strategy.

In a strange coincidence, it was the second year in a row that a British driver in car number 22 had won the title by finishing fifth at InterlagoIn a strange coincidence, it was the second year in a row that a British driver in car number 22 had won the title by finishing fifth at Interlagoin a row that a British driver in car number 22 had won the title by finishing fifth at Interlagoin car number 22 had won the title by finishing fifth at Interlagos.

Raikkonen pipped the troubled McLaren drivers by a single point, and with Felipe Massa in the other car winning three races Ferrari won the Constructors» as well.

The once in a lifetime experience of being driven at speed by a racing driver at iconic race circuits in dream cars is truly unique.

Vettel was sure that he was brake tested by Hamilton as they were preparing for the restart, and in a fit of mild race pulled alongside the Mercedes driver and gave booped his car into Hamilton's.

Peter Gregg has become the best sports car driver in the U.S. by finding fault, a road to the top that was certain to take him on a wide detour around popularity

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

«If any driver did not complete a season in a McLaren car for which he was contracted, it would only happen by mutual agreement.»

Late one night in December of his senior year, on the way back from celebrating his 21st birthday, Stankowski pulled up behind another car and harassed the driver by swerving and flashing his high beams.

Reigning champion Neel Jani, already known as one of the fastest LMP1 drivers around, will be joined in the # 1 car by Audi refugee Andre Lotterer and Bamber's team - mate from that Le Mans victory in 2015, Nick Tandy, making for an extremely potent trio of drivers.

He's highly - rated by many in the sport, and given the fact that he's a Mercedes junior driver, it wouldn't be surprising to see him in one of the silver cars at some point in the near future.

Bamber will team up with 2015 champions Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley in the # 2 car, whilst the # 1 car will be driven by Jani, Tandy and Lotterer, making for surely one of the most fearsome driver line - ups in recent years.

Some of the issues brought up by the drivers include poor visibility and a worry over how it would affect them if they had to get out of the car in a hurry.

If a driver has a quick car and is challenging at the front of the field fairly early in their career, then the first and second F1 pole positions they score can be separated by very little time.

The British driver has been aided by a dominant car in recent years, but managing to stay out of trouble on track for 28 consecutive races is an incredible feat.

Now they knew their driver had the championship, if by the skin of his teeth — and that they would win the Sears Craftsman pit crew championship, a title earned by a crew's car spending the least amount of time in the pits in 10 selected races during the season.

Powered by a monstrous Honda V6 Turbo engine, it was an advanced car for its time and won both constructors» titles in 1986 and 1987 (as well as the drivers» championship in the former).

The supposed «push» never occurred at all and the contact occurred because Lucas stopped dead in front of Eboue and the ensuing collision was akin to a motor vehicle accident caused when the driver in front breaks suddenly and is hit by a car travelling closely behind.

The points available to win in Abu Dhabi are the same as in Melbourne, I've never understood drivers who want the car to be at its best by the end of the season.

If I had to name one, it would be Lella Lombardi, the Italian race car driver, because she learned how to drive by delivering steaks and salami in her father's truck.

When I was in my teens and early 20s I was called over by men in cars under the pretense of asking me a question but, as I got closer to the driver's side, discovered he was naked from the waist down and masturbating.

The Evenflo infant car seat with SensorSafe technology aims to prevent tragedies by audibly alerting the driver that the baby is still in the car after the engine is shut off.