Sentences with phrase «drive miles you drive»

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Workhorse said that each truck will be able to drive nearly 100 miles before needing to charge, and will optimize the driver compartment and cargo area in efforts to increase efficiency and reduce vehicle weight.

Twenty miles an hour over the speed limit qualified as reckless driving, so I figured 40 miles an hour over was a one - way ticket to the magistrate's office, a lost license, and months of hassling friends for rides to work.

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

Insurance companies are desperate to know how many miles you drive in the course of a year.

I go out of my way to ensure I'm fueling myself properly, including driving miles out of my way to locate nutritious fare.

He got in his car, which he now refers to as his «test lab,» and drove nearly 15,000 miles across the United States.

Recode obtained documents that show Uber's self - driving cars require the human standby driver to take control an average 10 times for every 8 miles of driving.

Instead of calling 911, Bergeson drove 12 miles to the emergency room in a neighbouring city by himself because it «seemed like the thing to do,» he recalled.

The Tesla Semi «expected base price» is for a truck that the company promises can drive fully loaded at highway speeds for 300 miles on a single charge.

Otto, the startup behind the self - driving tractor trailer that recently completed a 120 - mile beer delivery, will be on hand to discuss automation and the effects it will have on society.

The Waymo fleet of self - driving cars has driven three million autonomous miles and simulated over one billion miles.

After fleeing the firefight, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove the battered SUV about a half a mile, to the corner of Spruce and Lincoln Streets.

He added: «The geographical area you can serve is much more limited, because you're not going to drive miles and miles across the city.

«In order to move autonomous driving toward reality, testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled than any combination of research facilities could support.»

Assuming that you don't drive more than 400 miles per day, and will park at home, near your own charger, or will have access to chargers wherever you park your car, that's acceptable.

Musk added that the trucks would be able to travel up to 500 miles on a single battery charge when filled with cargo and driving at 65 miles per hour.

Justin Sonnekalb, a technical designer at Irrational Games who is working on this project, says the game play experience will allow users to walk or drive the Mars Rover prototype across several square miles of actual Martian terrain while pursuing research - oriented mission goals.

«Driving at a pretty steady, 60 - to 65 - mile - per - hour pace is actually pretty easy on a car,» Paul says.

They can dump 150 miles of drive time into your car in an hour 4.

Great leaders have walked a mile (or several thousand) in someone else's shoes and in a world driven by decisions and dollars, experience — good and bad — is a vital asset.

And it's likely that the Sinaloa cartel is driving much of that production: In 2014, it is believed that the production of opium increased 50 % in Mexico, and in Guerrero state, a hotbed for heroin production, farmers and officials told The New York Times that the trade is controlled by the Sinaloa cartel — whose opium and marijuana fields in the country reportedly cover 23,000 miles, an area larger than Costa Rica.

Represents the percentage change compared to prior year period in miles driven per vehicle per workday on US lease power units.

According to company surveys, the average Zipcar member drove 5,295 miles per year before joining the service and now drives just 369 miles annually.

It is then loaded into a crate and driven by lorry for 140 miles to Faccenda's slaughterhouse in Northamptonshire.

(I liked driving the F - PACE so much that I didn't use these very much, even with a few hundred miles on the program.)

On Thursday, Starsky Robotics announced it drove its truck seven miles on a public highway in Florida without a human test driver.

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).

Google for example, said recently that its driverless cars have completed over 2 million miles of autonomous driving.

According to documents filed with the state of California, Waymo's human drivers had to take control from the automated system (called «disengagement») once for every 5,000 miles its cars drove in 2016.

That number has risen steadily as Uber's self - driving test fleet has grown, from 5,000 total miles per week in early February, to just over 20,000 miles per week in early March.

The other takeaway from Recode's report is in the number of miles logged by Uber's self - driving systems.

But the real 500 - pound gorilla in this room is Tesla, whose vehicles have have logged 222 million miles in Autopilot mode, and gathered more than 1.3 billion miles worth of driving data.

Engine tested: 60 - kilowatt - hour lithium - ion rechargeable battery with single - motor front - wheel drive; total system power output of 200 horsepower, and EPA - estimated range of 238 miles

Prior to joining Tufts in 2008, Axelrod was head of capital management at Lehman — where he says his experience was «like driving a car at 85 miles per hour, knowing that's probably too fast, but not fully appreciating the danger.»

Elio's motivations are similar to Tesla's — while it's driven by an old - fashioned internal combustion engine, the small, light vehicle will get something like 84 miles per gallon, and the company's DOE application will hinge on its advantages in environmental impact and energy independence.

The basics: The Tiguan GTE can be plugged in to charge, but it also offers a solar roof module that generate electrical energy fed directly into the battery, which allows for up to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) of zero emissions driving.

Most people don't think much about all the time they spend in their cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.

While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously tested a fleet of self - driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more than 700,000 miles of robotic driving.

Waymo, Google's self - driving spinoff, reported only 0.2 disengagements per 1,000 miles driven in California in 2016.

In recent research, Nick Colas, chief market strategist at Convergex who keeps a lookout for consumer trends, found a strong correlation between the fall in gas prices, miles driven and employment trends.

That's not quite the same as actual autonomous miles driven (Autopilot is, despite its name, not full autonomy), but the data is a huge asset for machine - learning purposes.

Our partners have driven more than five million miles and they've had zero accidents during our trips.

MileIQ automatically logs the miles you drive using the sensors in your phone.

CTO Chris Urmson announced his departure on Medium: «Now, 1.8 million miles of autonomous driving later, I've decided the time is right to step down and find my next adventure.»

From there, the drone flew to the home based on a pre-programmed flight path, dropped off the package held inside a small cage, and then flew off to rendezvous back with the van — which had since been driven to a spot miles away.

When the tap water gets cloudy, she drives around to the nine gas well pads within a mile of her farm, writing down which ones have trucks and men working.

Do you drive about 15,000 miles a year?

The researchers asked participants to drive different cars at 25 miles per hour or less around a 2.7 - mile track in Salt Lake City.

The attacker continued driving for more than a mile, the ranking politician of Alpes - Maritime Department told reporters.

Currently, a Proterra bus can only drive about 50 miles before needing to recharge, but the company is working on improving its charging stations.