Sentences with phrase «drive based car»

The front - wheel - drive based car receives all - wheel - drive as standard equipment here to help with power distribution.

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Wrapify, based in San Francisco and launched in July, takes an idea that's long been in the marketplace — wrapping cars with company logos and marketing messages — and drives it into the 21st century.

The Taiwan - based firm's new Wisconsin manufacturing facility will make LCDs, which will «be used in everything from self - driving cars to aircraft systems and in the fields of education, entertainment, healthcare, safety and surveillance, advanced manufacturing systems and office automation, among others,» Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker said in a statement.

Quite the opposite: The business of making cars drive themselves will be worth US$ 87 billion by 2030, according to Boston - based technology consultancy Lux Research.

With that said, it would be unfair to expect the G - Wagon to drive like a modern car - based crossover.

• Upstream Security, a San Francisco - based cybersecurity platform provider for connected cars and self - driving vehicles, raised $ 9 million in Series A funding.

Although the company declined to disclose when its self - driving technology will be available for integration, it noted that it's still on schedule to begin rolling out with Cambridge, Mass. - based self - driving car startup nuTonomy.

Another example is Austin, Texas - based software company Chaotic Moon, which has plans to use Oculus Rift to allow consumers to view and test - drive cars.

Ford, for example, invested $ 1 billion in Pittsburgh - based Argo AI in its effort to develop a self - driving car by 2021.

While app - streaming might not have the same sexiness as some of Google's other moonshots, like self - driving cars or internet - bearing balloons, Liu isn't too off base: The feature could have dramatic impact for users, developers, and Google itself moving forward.

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.

Uber launched a program in November 2013 to arrange manufacturer discounts and lenders for prospective drivers who lacked cars in the hopes it would boost vehicles driving for the app - based service.

Along with these kinds of changes, and the growing popularity of autonomous driving, the consistent design of services and experiences from within the car and beyond will become much more important to car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai - based design director of BMW Group's (bmwyy) global creative consultancy Designworks.

Last week, Uber began to provide rides in self - driving cars in Pittsburgh on a limited basis.

And Volvo will use the same vehicle for its own autonomous driving project, which is based on a plan that still envisages having a driver in the car.

He estimates that approximately 25 % of all loans issued in Canada are to people with low credit scores, and while he believes people with higher credit scores will make up a growing proportion of Canada Drives» customer base going forward, he has built a business (and brand) around an ability to get that 25 % into cars.

Tokyo based next - generation car design and manufacturing company Four Link Systems say they hope Earth 1 will get approval to drive on the roads by March 2018.

They own moderately priced used cars and drive them until they're on a first - name basis with their mechanic.

Its conclusion — that drive - thrus create fewer emissions than parking lots — is based on a finding that when parkers turn off their cars, the catalytic converter cools and is less efficient at reducing emissions.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

Some 3 % of American adults use ride - hailing apps on a daily or weekly basis, and around two - thirds of these regular ride - hailing users indicate that they own a car or regularly drive a personal vehicle.

He also heads X's Project Loon, the balloon - based beaming internet project; Google's self - driving car project; and Makani, X's kite - based wind power initiative.

So if we identify that all type A personalities drive a lemon yellow car and wear Wellington boots and have a dog and three children and whatever, we can then make a prediction about everyone else in the universe who has a yellow car, a dog, Wellington boots and say well they're very likely to also have a type A personality based on their data.

The California - based electric car startup says the car will utilize an industry leading 130 kWh battery that's capable of driving 378 miles on a single charge.

The news comes just days after Uber announced that it was testing its self - driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh, the home of the company's Carnegie Mellon - based research and development center.

Continue reading Toyota's Plano - based CEO talks self - driving cars and the real reason the automaker suspended testing

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)?

Eventually, what we'll see — at least based on today's development — is a network wherein Waymo, nuTonomy, GM's Cruise or Lyft - powered cars will drive alongside each other on the Lyft platform.

By contrast, Alphabet's self - driving car division, Waymo, is building some of its own hardware, like the laser - based radars called lidar, in a bid to supply carmakers and other self - driving technology companies.

NuTonomy, a self - driving car startup spun out of MIT and based in Cambridge, Mass., will soon begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Boston.

While Microsoft denies any plan to build its own self - driving car, the smart assistant could form one of the bases of other automaker's self - driving car technology.

These partners are Mercedes - Benz, which was recently reported to be preparing to unveil a fleet of electric vehicles based on a completely new architecture; Nvidia, which just launched the artificial intelligence - powered palm - sized Drive PX 2 computer for self - driving cars; Otto, an autonomous truck startup that was acquired by Uber last month; and Didi Chuxing, which recently bought out Uber's operations in China.

The new driverless car service here also coincided with the debut of the XC90 self - driving car, a Volvo sport utility vehicle outfitted with lidar — a kind of radar based on laser beams, wireless technology and seven cameras.

In its filing, Waymo said it was inadvertently copied on an email from one of its suppliers with drawings of Uber's circuit board design for its lidar technology, short for light detection and ranging,» that are laser - based sensors used in self - driving cars.

As Tesla continues to evolve its Autopilot suite of features and aims to complete its first coast - to - coast fully autonomous drive this year, the Silicon Valley electric carmaker is said to be working on its own AI - based chips that will power the company's future fleet of driverless cars.

Sensors on self - driving cars — which may include laser - based technology, radar and video — are designed to sense pedestrians and other obstructions, even in the dark.

For some folks it's rock climbing, or race car driving, or extreme skiing, or base jumping.

The New York - based Catholic League raised its eyebrows at a 1998 episode featuring this exchange in the Simpsons» car while driving home from a church service:

A couple of months ago we were driving around Seattle listening to KEXP (a constant in our car) when «Novocaine» from Seattle - based electro po...

Senna didn't really want to drive for McLaren in 1993 as he didn't think the car (with its underpowered Ford engine) was worthy of his talents, and instead of signing a contract for the whole year famously drove for the team on a race - by - race basis.

He, too, is convinced that the agony of last season — when he couldn't run the bases without limping or drive a car without grimacing — is behind him.

Point is, these people can help you optimize how and where you install your child seats based on the exact model and year of car you drive — details you're probably not going to get from a Britax manual.

Driving in the car, going on walks, doing chores together or just going to a park and chilling are the best things moms and dads can do with kids on a regular basis.

I am so tired that with the baby on my hip, I explained to the policeman that I drive a minivan and I never bumped into anything in my entire life until this minivan, but now both sides of my car are completely scraped up from pulling in and out of my garage and bumping into trashcans on a regular basis.

Based on the current number of self - driving cars, that task could take decades or centuries to complete.

«One way to address this problem is to inform the public of risks through information - based regulation, such as posting billboards of people standing on cars during floods to discourage them from attempting to drive through inundated areas in the future.

Participants drive a 12 mile loop of Nottingham in an instrumented on - road car, this route is also programmed into a high fidelity motion based simulator meaning participants can then drive an identical route in the simulator.

In theory, if a city or region has policies that encourage biking instead of driving, the researchers should be able to see the change in consumption patterns, with less car fuel consumed and fewer vehicles overall and a drop in consumption - based transport emissions, she said.

Autonomous systems like package delivery drones and self - driving cars, for example, base their decisions on what their sensors tell them, said Timothy Trippel, a doctoral student in computer science and engineering and first author of a new paper on the findings.

The participants then completed a computer - based driving game, in which one group member was tasked with driving a car along a track as quickly as possible while the others watched.