Sentences with phrase «by test vehicles»

As a Video data labeler, I reviewed radar and video data captured by test vehicles on public roads.

With the all - embracing stick - on disguise worn by the test vehicle, the spy photos don't show any detail, although the lower, chopped roofline is easily picked, as is what appears to be a more laid - back windscreen angle.

Under the vinyl cover, inflatable tubes and foam sit on a metal frame, which is then affixed to metal guides on the track to keep the target from moving until it is struck by the test vehicle.

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Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

By year - end the company expects to have the largest fleet of autonomous test vehicles of any automaker.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

VW acknowledges that it installed a cheating algorithm in each car that takes in reams of data — about atmospheric pressure, how the car was being steered, how fast it was going and how far — then determines whether the vehicle is being tested by regulators or driven in the real world, applying emissions controls accordingly.

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

Airbus has previously claimed the so - called «Vahana» project will build and test an autonomous flying vehicle by the end of 2017.

Waymo may be thinking along similar lines: It recently took a big step in that general direction, announcing that some of its test vehicles operating in Arizona will soon begin testing without a human driver standing by at the wheel.

Three tactics proved especially promising: 1) moving away from «direct» sales and toward integrated campaigns that drove purchases in retail stores; 2) using DRTV as an inexpensive testing vehicle, rather than an all - or - nothing launch pad; and 3) maximizing margins by relentlessly optimizing costs and sales prices.

DE), the world's largest automaker by sales, has admitted it had rigged emissions tests in diesel - powered vehicles in the United States and U.S. authorities said on Monday they would widen their probe to other automakers.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

These simulated urban environments will be from CARLA, an open - source simulator for autonomous vehicle testing developed by Intel Labs and the Computer Vision Center.

Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

Full details are still forthcoming surrounding the death on Sunday night of pedestrian Elaine Herzberg after she was struck by Uber's test vehicle, a Volvo SC 90 sport utility vehicle, operating in autonomous mode..

Nvidia (NVDA.O), by contrast, added another day of losses after the chipmaker temporarily suspended self - driving tests across the globe after an Uber UBER.UL autonomous vehicle killed a woman.

By Nick Carey DETROIT (Reuters)- Toyota Motor Corp said on Thursday it is building a closed - course test facility in Michigan for its self - driving vehicle technology that will...

As for costs of operation — chief among them being product delivery — technologies like driverless, autonomous electric vehicles, which are already test - driving around Las Vegas, are sure to be rapidly adopted by major courier companies as it becomes feasible to do so, substantially reducing delivery costs.

«Many [Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards] contain test procedures that are based on the assumed presence of a human driver, and will therefore likely need to be amended to accommodate vehicles that can not be driven by humans,» the notice states.

Just recently, Otto, an Uber unit, was challenged by Waymo, Google's proprietary self - driving division that's also in the middle of testing autonomous vehicles, for allegedly stealing designs and blueprints for its self - driving technology.

As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

Another prong, issued by the Federal Highway Administration, seeks to determine what is needed from an infrastructure standpoint to help support the testing and use of automated vehicles.

While a number of states have passed laws to allow autonomous cars, most cover the testing of vehicles rather than the use by consumers.

In case you forgot, that involved the brand duping regulators by installing software intended to evade emissions tests for its diesel vehicles.

It abided by mileage - test requirements for vehicles sold abroad, it said.

So far, autonomous systems in the U.S. have been connected with three deaths — two related to Tesla vehicles and a third that occurred in March when a pedestrian was struck by a car being tested by Uber.

In October, NIO USA announced that it was issued an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit by the California DMV and it would begin testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to Testing Permit by the California DMV and it would begin testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to testing on public roads under the Autonomous Vehicle Tester Program guidelines as it progresses on its path to bring autonomy to market.

The first vehicle tested will be a 5 - by 10 - foot trailer manned by two employees.

Maximum load designated by the manufacturer that can be placed anywhere on the platform of a vehicle, axle - load or livestock scale using the prescribed test pattern (an area at least 4 feet long and as wide as the scale platform).

It has been tested for side impact and has proven to be one of the best currently on the market This seat has been engineered and crash tested to exceed US standards set by FMVSS 213 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No 213).

It will give companies a one year window until April 2018 to test «autonomous vehicle technology» so long as they get approval for the demonstrations by the state motor vehicles department.

By changing state law to allow automated vehicle testing and partnering with Cadillac to bring its headquarters to New York City, Governor Cuomo has positioned New York State to take the lead in the development of the driverless / hands - free technology that is rapidly transforming the automotive industry.»

• The Department of Motor Vehicles and the Department of Environmental Conservation are taking action to eliminate the NY Transient Emissions Short Test program, or NYTEST, a vehicle emissions test that is no longer required by the Federal governmTest program, or NYTEST, a vehicle emissions test that is no longer required by the Federal governmtest that is no longer required by the Federal government.

The Griffiss Test Site will be required to perform state - of - the - art vehicle demonstrations across one or more unique UAS operating environments identified by NASA.

«We are considering a number of proposals... that include how to introduce different forms of congestion pricing, including potential fees on for - hire vehicles,» said a Cuomo official, who noted that the administration has been testing out «reverse congestion pricing» by cutting truck tolls in half at night.

«My best guess is that they have managed to put the ECU into an unencrypted test state, possibly by playing around with power - up sequences,» says Peter Highton, a senior engineer with Freescale Semiconductor in Aylesbury, UK, which makes ECU microchips for racing cars as well as ordinary vehicles.

After decades of testing, automakers are expected to put 50,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the roads in California by 2017, according to Dunwoody.

Consequently, no launch vehicle today stands ready to take people to the moon and back, although the Falcon Heavy rocket built by private spaceflight firm SpaceX, which is currently in testing, may fill the void.

According to Nihar Patel, vice president of North American business strategy for Toyota, the company has reduced the cost of the fuel - cell powertrain by 95 percent since it started testing fuel - cell vehicles on U.S. roads in 2002.

When driving a car, the clutch mechanically carries the torque produced by the engine to the chassis of the vehicle — a coupling that has long been tested and optimized in such macroscopic machines, giving us highly efficient engines.

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

On the military front, the Army is testing an armor - piercing bullet called a kinetic energy penetrator for use by ground - attack jets and armored vehicles, while the Navy evaluates lightweight amorphous - alloy fragmentation bombs.

Toyota, currently the world's largest producer of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions of plug - in hybrids at two California universities.

Lewis is particularly enthusiastic about the X-51 WaveRider, a hypersonic flight - test vehicle funded by the Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon's research and development arm.

Once the registered teams have built their vehicles, they'll need to successfully complete two rounds of testing and judging by an expert panel before taking home any prizes.

The authors say emission certification tests, both prior to sale and by vehicle owners, could be more accurate if they were to simulate a broader variety of speeds, driving styles and ambient temperatures.

This past October Sierra Nevada tested the automated landing system by dropping the Dream Chaser from a helicopter; the vehicle's approach to the runway was spot - on, although a mechanical malfunction prevented one of the wheels from deploying, sending the vehicle skidding off the runway.

The space shuttle test vehicle Enterprise made its way around New York City by barge Sunday, June 3, en route to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.