Sentences with phrase «car road accidents»

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There have been a high rate of drunk driving accidents during past Super Bowl Sundays, which is why Tostitos has partnered with Uber and Mothers Against Drunk Driving to try to keep 25,000 cars off the road on game day.

Uber's recent road mishap is another tally to the accident history of self - driving cars.

Other causes of accidents attributed to human behavior are car racing, speeding, road rage, and drowsy driving.

In 1917, Detroit had 65,000 cars on the road, which resulted in 7,171 accidents and 168 fatalities.

If you're driving along a highway and a car comes at you from a side road, and you have to think what you ought to do, you're not likely to avoid an accident.

Think of the car accident last spring on that back road in the pouring rain.

I've seen her do stitches on an injured person on the side of the road following a car accident.

It really is not safe to put any child in a taxi with no car seat these days with the increased accidents on the road.

Also having extra toys, snacks, diapers, wipes and clothes in the car is great for when accidents happen on the road or you just need some new entertainment.

Check for wear and tear, and also ask if the car seat was ever in a car that was involved in a road traffic accident.

Every time we get into a car, there is a statistical risk of our being involved in a road traffic accident.

Keep in mind that no car crash is truly an «accident» — they all have a cause, whether it is driving too fast for the road conditions or getting distracted behind the wheel.

Existing research from the Department for Transport in 2013 shows winter is a dangerous time of year for motorists, with a reported 57,260 cars across England and Wales involved in accidents as a result of wet, flooded and icy roads.

Prompted in part by an accident this past November, NYC taxi regulators are combing through data they collect from cabs and car services as they prepare to propose tighter rules governing how long drivers can be on the road.

State Police are investigating a 1 car fatal motor vehicle accident on Hawleyton Road in the Town of Binghamton at approximately 3:20 AM Thursday.

I felt that it might have the unintended consequence of increasing DWI accidents, as the most intoxicated drivers would be on the road at an earlier hour when there were more other cars for them to hit.

No fewer than eight persons died in an accident involving a car and a jeep on Hadejia - Kano road in Kaugama Local Government Area of Jigawa.

Nissan has shown off a prototype sweat - sensing car seat which it says could help prevent road accidents.

The arrest occurred following a 1 - car roll over accident on Coe Hill Road in Davenport.

The work could also reveal how fast a car was moving just before an accident, by looking for cracks in the windshield created by stones kicked up from the road.

Now Google's fleet of self - driving cars has completed 140,000 miles on the road with only two small accidents — one of them caused by human error.

But concerns about the safety of autonomous cars are misplaced in a world where 1.2 million people die every year in road accidents due to human error, says Paul Newman, a robotics engineer at the University of Oxford, whose team is developing autonomous cars.

Many had sustained these in road traffic accidents, such as being hit by a car, between 11 months to 17 years prior to the study.

Using their state - of - the - art simulation facility in the School of Psychology scientists at The University of Nottingham are exploring the use of car driving simulators as tools for training and testing drivers in order to reduce road traffic accidents and fatalities.

As scientists have mapped the path of fear through the brain, they have begun to explore ways to lessen its hold on the psyche, to prevent that car accident from keeping us off the road months later.

Such work could be a stepping - stone to AI that can enable a self - driving car to adapt to unfamiliar road conditions, avoiding accidents.

They keep down road accidents and they prevent thefts in car parks or break - ins at hypermarkets, people claim.

In fact some of these memorials were so big I asked Volodya, who said often poor people buried their family members right by the side of the road where the car accident had occurred.

The thickness of the snow was unbelievable and even driving slow you could feel the car losing control a little - anyway as we were driving back we witnessed an accident between two cars sliding down the hill and luckily never got involved ourselves but it does shake you up a little when you drive that same road every day and it's super notorious for accidents in all types of weather conditions.

The road - trip plot is simple, but there are befuddling plot holes — like when Wendy is hospitalized after a car accident, but we never find out what happened to the others in the car — and the dialogue is often cringe - worthy.

Amidst the dark drive, the family encounters a hostile car of three joy riders, who cause an accident and force the family off the road.

Reservation Road (R for profanity and disturbing images) Revenge flick, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, revolving around an anguished college professor's (Joaquin Phoenix) desperate search for the driver (Mark Ruffalo) of the car which claimed the life of his 10 year - old son (Sean Curley) in a hit - and - run accident.

While leading President Benjamin Asher's (Aaron Eckhart) security detail on a motorcade outside of Camp David, tragedy strikes as the First Lady (Ashley Judd) is killed in a car accident caused by an icy bridge road.

Your car journey might suffer from diversions (due to road closures, accidents, etc.) but you can still take a different route to your destination, even though you know the journey will take longer.

«At my school, there have been a couple of car accidents, just minor fender benders, and if we make it more difficult to go through said program, it may result in more dangerous hazards on the road,» said Perrin.

That said, when you look at the congested roads and pollution in the world's major cities, together with the unacceptable number of people killed or injured in car accidents each day, then yes, these type of vehicles and services make plenty of sense in certain situations and locations.

The car left and got in an accident down the road and the driver ended up killing someone.

Volvo has built its reputation on building cars that are among the safest on the road, but while it was once enough to build boxy vehicles reinforced like bank vaults, technology is now playing an increasingly significant role in mitigating or preventing accidents altogether.

Sure the ride is lumpy and there's a little hunting from the single - clutch, robotised manual and four - wheel - drive transmission, but you can thread this car along almost any road, park it and three - point turn it without too much fear of an embarrassingly public accident (in 14 years I've never driven a car that attracts so much attention).

Road accident statistics on a model - by - model basis from the UK Department of Transport show that the Mercedes - Benz S - Class is one of the safest cars on the UK roads [citation needed](measured in terms of chance of death in an accident).

It include Intelligent Emergency Call (accident assist), Concierge Services (PA on the road) and Remote Services (control the car remotely via BMW Remote App).

I brought the car 3 months back and unfortunately met with a road accident last month.

Plus, the X-perience's four - wheel - drive system should also lessen the chance of the car being involved in an accident thanks to the extra grip it provides on slippery roads.

Up for sale my 07 G35S, one owner, the car still like new, I'm a over the road truck driver so my car just been sitting in a parking lot for more than what I really use it, is clean title, no accident and no mechanic problem at all, feel free to ask any question.

Chris Urmson, the director of Google's self - driving car project, took the stage at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas to shed some light on the circumstances surrounding the road accident caused by one of the tech giant's autonomous vehicles.

The reason: about 14 percent of all single - car accidents with injuries involve leaving a road lane.

[24] A 2012 study suggests that if all cars feature the system, it will reduce accidents by up to 27 percent and save up to 8,000 lives per year on European roads.

Some of the most popular small cars sold in India, including Maruti Alto 800, Tata Nano, Ford Figo, Hyundai i10 and Volkswagen Polo, have failed crash tests showing high risk of life - threatening injuries in road accidents, according to Global NCAP.

A car ahead would slow for an accident or ice on the road and report the slowdown to cars behind.

The super bright CREE LED fog + DRL lamp are not only an optical enrichment for your car, they also provide more safety on the road and reduce the risk of accidents.