Sentences with phrase «car driver does»

Parked car driver opens door, and a cyclist slams right into the door: This happens when a car driver does not check traffic before opening the door.
This is what the very best race car drivers do.
He says that's what racing car drivers do, but he's really only referring to people in overalls with sweaty pits.
Many will disregard it without a moment's hesitation, handling it with the same approach many car drivers did Skoda in the 1980s.
To the surprise of many, the passionate race - car driver did not follow the seemingly inevitable route towards Minimalism, and instead followed a path that led him to ever more opulent and baroque reliefs.
From a cyclist getting shot for riding with their child in a busy street to a motorist laughing about the «gay frenchman» he killed, there's no doubt that cyclists and car drivers do not always see eye - to - eye.
Accidents occur often when children are loading or unloading, and the bus driver or other car drivers do not pay attention to the location of the children.

Not exact matches

Drivers who take the most rides, more than 65 per week, don't need to pay for the car.
Instead, the delivery vehicles will have drivers, but they will be limited in what they can do so that it imitates a driverless car.
Mojio is a little box that plugs into any car's maintenance data port, beaming out information about the car's internal state, so the driver can use smartphone apps (either supplied by Mojio, or by third parties) to do anything from monitor their car's fuel economy to find parking spots.
Not only did Chevy save the day, it also gave drivers a chance to test drive the car.
And what we're trying to do is to pivot this to a media and entertainment brand with the heart and soul of a race car driver at the middle of it,» he told Cutmore.
Just an answer — not the answer — will do, and it's always one estimation (say 10 % of cars are red) multiplied against the total (the population of drivers in the city).
Bringing Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts into your car lets manufacturers earn back some of the money they spend on telematics and forms a direct relationship with drivers, something they've traditionally relied on dealers to do, said Dan Gittleman, Xevo's CEO.
Autopilot includes several features like an automatic steering function that helps drivers steer within a lane, adaptive cruise control that maintains the car's speed in relation to surrounding traffic, and an auto lane change feature that is supposed to move the vehicle into an adjacent lane automatically when the turn signal is activated — but only when it's safe to do so.
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).
Lyft as well as rival Uber have a history of drumming up ways to attract drivers, even for people who don't own cars.
In Chicago alone, there were 60,000 people who applied to become a driver, but were denied because they didn't have a car that qualified.
All drivers have to do is press a button on a key fob to make the car pull in and out of tight parking spots and garages entirely on its own.
Autopilot is at least as safe as human drivers on the highway, in a car that doesn't use gasoline and performs like a sports car, the magazine said.
Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO Travis Kalanick said Wednesday at the inaugural Code Conference.
Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO said at the inaugural Code Conference.
But looking back, he says the smartest thing he actually did was hire a driver to take him to meetings so he could work in the car.
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.
Tesla, already under fire over its finances (see above,) says it still doesn't know why one of its Model X cars crashed in California on Friday, killing its driver.
«I want to help power companies prevent power outages, I want to help police identify patterns of crime that they didn't know about, I want to help race car drivers win races, and I want to help doctors predict medical outcomes.»
The Model 3's 15 - inch center screen is has an impressive level of capability and functionality, the magazine said, but it's packed with menus and drivers are forced to use it «in ways that don't always make sense,» such as to adjust the car's adaptive cruise control speed.
The new hardware will add to Autopilot's preexisting capabilities, allowing the cars do to things like drive themselves in heavy traffic, change lanes without input, and transition on and off freeways without the driver first putting on the signal.
Ridesharing companies don't let drivers work out of other people's cars, but the program designed by Peers partners ridesharing drivers with cars through the hybrid rental company Breeze.
I was walking down the street the other day and as I crossed a driveway a car came speeding out, the driver didn't slow down at all, missing me by a few inches.
The basics: The car, designed by Italian engineering and design company ED, does not require a driver, but the company does not delve into how it would drive autonomously.
When they do, they will be potentially be replacing the drivers with the cars that operate themselves.
The driver of the car is a murderer and what he did was a horrible, horrible inexcusable thing.»
It is compact, making it a great fit for city drivers, but also has enough room inside (and trunk space) that you don't feel like you're tooling around in a clown car.
Even if fully autonomous cars don't work out as planned (some critics think it's a distant pipe dream), autopilot tech that aids drivers and prevents accidents is available now on Tesla EVs and other cars.
Although this means that a majority of these regular ride - hailing users are car owners / drivers, they are significantly less likely to own or drive a car than either occasional ride - hailing users or Americans who do not use ride - hailing at all.
But once they're gone, self - driving cars will turn to remote drivers when they don't know what to do.
Seventy years later, Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab project «No Hands Across America» drove 3,100 miles across the country in a semi-autonomous car that did all the steering while the driver did the accelerating and braking.
What I like is that all of the experiences we do while driving a car or truck counts towards making a safer and better driver.
The ruling sets up yet another battle between state regulators and the $ 41 billion Uber Technologies, which is on a quest to become a global car service that relies on drivers who don't require costly benefits such as health care.
Telsa has been forced to lock down the autopilot feature in its latest Model S cars after drivers have been found to be doing really strange things with it.
That doesn't necessarily mean Uber's operating costs were low — they spend money on everything from research and development to discounting worldwide to hiring lobbyists — but it did mean that Uber figured out a way to avoid adding drivers» employee benefits and car ownership, maintenance and insurance to those costs.
It doesn't necessarily mean that all its drivers were active, but if one self - driving Uber does 100 rides a day — a very doable four rides an hour — then Uber would only need 1,800 cars.
While Tesla owners are at work or in vacation, their cars could bring an extra buck just in the way car - sharing services are doing right now, but sans a driver.
A video of Kalanick aggressively berating one of his own drivers swiftly followed, as did a lawsuit from Google driverless car sister company Waymo for trade - secret misappropriation.
The clip did not capture any sound and movements inside the car that could have indicated driver actions prior to the accident.
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).
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.
Charlie Munger: It will be bad for GEICO if cars don't have drivers.
It also appeared that the driver's hands were not hovering above the steering wheel, which is what drivers are instructed to do so they can quickly retake control of the car.
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