Sentences with phrase «drive systems around»

The power reaches the road through a six - speed automatic transmission and all four wheels — quattro still ranks as one of the most proficient all - wheel drive systems around.

Not exact matches

The Pegasus platform builds on top of Nvidia's existing Drive PX computing systems that are already used in many self - driving vehicle tests around the world.

Instead, you lounge in the back, where you can interact with the entertainment system using voice prompts and gestures, while you're driven around town; its heavily tinted windows create a cocooning effect.

«We have to navigate around the real world, develop perception and action systems for our self - driving cars, and understand, predict, and make more efficient the experience for our riders and drivers.»

While Uber drivers don't wear uniforms or drive logo - emblazoned trucks around, they are arguably more monitored than the FedEx drivers are because of the constant rating system and the threat of termination if it drops too low, Liss - Riordan argued.

Ford and Chinese company Baidu recently invested $ 150 million in Velodyne, a manufacturer of a LiDAR system that allows self - driving cars to «see» the world around them.

It would mean that between the end of the year and around 2019, Tesla could have a level 4 autonomous system enabled in second generation cars — meaning the vehicles can drive themselves without a driver as backup, but not in all conditions or environment.

But in this case, the system uses a combination of prior maps as well as the lidar, which sends out a signal and gathers data on the range and intensity of objects in its path and around it in order to determine where the vehicle is driving in real time.

A few of the obvious drives that pack us off, daily or weekly or episodically or, for some, in hope, permanently, are fear or even terror in the particular given set of circumstances; the sheer discouragement and exhaustion of facing questions without answer; profound disillusionment — it takes many forms — with the pertinent, prevailing system or systems; deep and bitter contempt for one's own society, bred of the abysmal failure to attain in consistent practice even a semblance of the justice professed and acclaimed; despair — so it was with the college generation of the late sixties — over the formidable obduracy of a political establishment in going its merciless way quite apparently deaf to the cries of anguish of its empathetic and real victims, victims by the tens of millions here and around the world.

These two parents monitored their teens» text messages, voicemails, phone calls, emails, Facebook pages, driving speed, and used state - of - the - art GPS systems to establish «geo - fences» around their child's school and home.

If you've ever reached around to grab a toy off the floor of your car while driving or picked your child's sippy cup off a grimy restaurant floor, you'll understand the need for this tether system.

No one wants to spend 45 - minutes fiddling around with a car seat, so check out manufacturer guidelines to see which system will work best for your child, the car your drive, and your needs.

This drives more revenue and helps dissipate the long standing stigma around eating schoool food, by eliminating the two tier system under which «cool» kids chose snacks for lunch, while those too poor to be able to pay for a bagel were easily identifiable by their full - lunch tray.

The Obama campaign used the internet as well as they did not because they employed tools that were particularly new (database - driven field organizing, email fundraising, online video and social networking have all been around for years) but because they worked out human systems to put those tools to work effectively.

Anticipating the next step, researchers at MIT have proposed a scheme called CityCar in which compact electric vehicles would be scattered in parking stations all around cities, enabling riders to jump into one and drive it to the station nearest their destination, then leave it for the next rider, much like the shared - bicycle systems that have sprung up in cities around the world.

The vehicle's self - driving and navigational system was built around a 25 - MIPS laptop based on a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems.

Stuart Minchin, an environmental chemist and IT whiz who heads the WRON team, shows me around a climate - controlled room where hard drives the size of meat lockers corral information from the nation's diverse water management agencies and track virtually every drop of water in lakes, reservoirs, aquifers, and river systems.

The money would go to testing self - driving cars and other connected vehicle systems in designated corridors around the country (Greenwire, Jan. 14).

A fully automated driving system won't hit the roads anytime soon, but a version of Ralph is being converted into an alarm to wake up drivers who veer off the road when there's no exit ramp around.

They drove the modified Prius around South Bethlehem and the Stabler Arena parking lot on Lehigh's Goodman Campus to create 3 - D maps later downloaded to their wheelchair's control system.

Self - assembly is driven mainly by the system's desire to minimize its energy and achieve equilibrium, but kinetic effects — the natural forces that move atoms and molecules around — can also play a strong role.

But the longer you drive around on the flat tire, the more you front angles out of alignment; the more your suspension goes out of whack; the more your whole shock system in the car becomes stressed.

If you built a really beautiful system you could drive a lot of demand for them, and you could have a great Uber - style feedback system, but at the end of the day there's just not enough doctors to go around and everyone would be too busy.

Find out if people in your office are interested in a trade - off carpool system — one person drives one week, someone else drives the next... ask around.

«I think all three brain systems for love become stimulated around this time of year, including sex drive, feeling of attachment and romantic love,» she told Bustle.

-- Features several new monsters — Subtle improvements and embellishments — 1080 native — Rextextured rather than rebuilt in HD — Improved loading times — 50 % more content than Tri — Most of the new content comes from the upper levels of the game like the G class quests — New monster: Brachydios — Brachydios is like a cross between a poisonous rhino and an extraordinarily aggressive, volcanic T - Rex — Brachydios enjoys slobbering explosive neon - green saliva all over its stumpy arms and then pile - driving you into the ground with them, leaving a residue of slime wherever it treads — Brachydios will go into rage mode after you hit him a few times and the green nodes on his head start to glow read — Expanded monster stamina system in Ultimate — Can more easily see when a monster is weakened or hurt — Monsters tire out more visibly — AI companions Cha - Cha and Kayumba can be used in single - player — Cha - Cha and Kayumba sing stat - boosting songs and have the odd stab at a monster during battle — The two are mainly used to distract the monster's attention — GamePad shows map — Mess around with your inventory on the GamePad as well — Target button in both versions lets you actually lock on to monsters

Jealousy and grief might've been huge factors that shaped him as a man, but it was the pain of seeing oppression around the world that really drove him to enact a plan to destabilize the world's class system.

While cloud based Learning Management Systems have been around for years, the emergence of cloud based content authoring tools is a relatively new trend in eLearning, driven by the rise of BYOD and mLearning.

Whereas «conservative ideologues paraded around the idea that regulation is somehow anathema to choice, and is driving away the elite schools that otherwise would have magically served these kids better than the schools that participated,» White argued that instead, «it may very well be the regulation itself — the accountability system — that is the thing that has promoted the performance.»

I believe we need a new school - delivery and governance model that is city - specific and city - driven and that such a system should replace the district, not work around it.

University participation rates have remained low over many years at around 18 per cent, despite increased participation in cities under the demand - driven system.

This system is employed to fuel an innovative change movement around instruction, which is intentionally designed to drive system transformation, build a culture of continuous improvement, support a shared leadership model, and maximize teachers» impact on student learning.

Erin McGoldrick serves as the DCPS Chief of Data and Accountability, overseeing the organization's efforts to create and support a culture of data - driven decision making, specifically around data systems, assessments, research and evaluation.

Even in the early grades most American schools have been coerced into using curriculum - driven instructional systems in which teachers are expected to «cover» long lists of content expectations, far more in a year than any of the high performing school systems around the world.

New evaluation systems, new standards, online assessments, personalized staff development, data driven decision - making and many more — in the last few years, districts around the country have had to adopt and integrate an increasing number of initiatives.

«The new system will turn around that process and design tests to model good instruction — to be driven by and be part of instruction instead of a standalone activity.»

The development of school leaders that can drive an agenda based on what we know works from top performing systems around the world is one of the best investments a school system can make.»

In addition, she works closely with local education agency (LEA) partners to provide direct support around the development, use, and refinement of student data review systems to drive changes in classroom instructional practice.

There are several switches placed down around the driver's left shin — controlling things like the vehicle's safety systems — that are invisible and unusable while driving.

We've detailed the Rolls - Royce Cullinan before, reporting on its 6.6 - liter V - 12 engine that's expected to send around 630 hp and 740 lb - ft of torque through an eight - speed automatic transmission and Rolls - Royce's first all - wheel - drive system.

«It [the system] is even more refined than the ELR I'm driving,» Reuss adds, as he pilots the Volt around the track.

Around Los Angeles, I never had the chance to push the Allroad into any conditions that might challenge the Quattro system in the least, but if I had been headed up to Mammoth Mountain in wintertime, it would've been reassuring to know all - wheel drive would magically appear when conditions warranted.

The Accademia is part of the company's Squadra Corse program, a multi-tiered system that allows drivers to go as far as they like down the motorsports rabbit hole, from playing around on world - class race tracks and getting a bit of driving instruction on frozen lakes all the way to the company's Super Trofeo series and, eventually, the GT3 race program.

Works like a charm and together with rear radar and surrounding sodar you have a car that can detect obstacles, read signs, see the road, partly drive by itself, keep cruise control distance, warn rear driver if they don't see you are at standstill in a queue (the car then flashes the lights to wake them up) and to protect you (if they still doesn't react and my car thinks this will not end well, it pretensions seat belts, apply full brake if you are at stand still, to prevent you from bouncing further, and precharge the airbag safety system - if nothing happens, it releases the belts and so on), and it can find parking spot that fits and help you park there and of course help you with obstacles around the car when parking by yourself.

In the video, GM product chief Mark Reuss takes a heavily camouflaged 2016 Chevrolet Volt (an earlier teaser photo of the car is shown above) for a test drive around a track, where he explains the next - generation regenerative braking system.

Unlike the FWD standard / AWD optional Regal Sportback hatchback, the TourX comes only with a twin - clutch intelligent all - wheel - drive system that torque - vectors its way around corners and can theoretically channel 100 percent of torque to a single wheel if the other three lose grip.

Expect the optional all - wheel drive system to cost around $ 1,800 extra, as it does on the closely related 2016 Honda Pilot.

Cadillac's much - maligned CUE infotainment system is standard, and after spending a couple of days driving around L.A. in various Cadillacs, we have to say that the navigation function is superb, even if the haptic touch - screen interface can make you want to tear your hair out.

Around the same time Subaru's Leone made a mark on the passenger - car map in 1972 by having light - duty, part - time four - wheel - drive system for adverse weather.

It's becoming quite annoying now that I have to drive around more for work, so I'm wondering if anything can be done about it save for replacing the whole clutch system.