Sentences with phrase «driver in a car doing»

Sadly the awesome helmet cam from Shift which beautifully replicated the experience of being a racing driver in a car doing insane speeds didn't make the transition with the handling model, but the cockpit view still does decent justice to flinging cars around the track like a madman.

Not exact matches

Instead, the delivery vehicles will have drivers, but they will be limited in what they can do so that it imitates a driverless car.

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).

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Honda usually like to put one of its own drivers in a car - heck, Super Aguri was basically set up just so Takuma Sato could stay in F1 - and they might want to do the same with Sauber.

In total drivers didn't pre-qualify on 12 occasions, and cars didn't qualify on 50 occasions.

As Carl Edwards drove his wounded No. 19 car to Martinsville Speedway's garage following a blown tire that had sent him hard into the outside wall, he didn't wallow that his crash would likely result in him being among the four drivers failing to advance to the championship round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup in two weeks.

The idea is that an elongated screen with stretch along the nose of the car, protecting the driver from oncoming object whilst also preserving the open - cockpit nature of the cars in a less hideous way than the Halo did.

The British driver did a little bit of saloon car racing but retired from it altogether in 1969, moving to the USA.

«If any driver did not complete a season in a McLaren car for which he was contracted, it would only happen by mutual agreement.»

That NASCAR hasn't had a fatality in one of its three national divisions since 2001 is a testament to its steadfast commitment to safety, including requiring drivers to wear head - and - neck restraints, tracks to install energy - absorbent barriers, and stringent rules covering the construction of cars so that when a crash does occur the driver doesn't bear the brunt of the impact.

Do you expect top Formula - 1 / Nascar drivers to spray confetti from their cars whilst playing dub - step to keep your ADD from flaring up or is this burning desire to be more than an athlete only applicable in MMA?

Coming to terms with the new generation of cars has been a steeper learning curve for some drivers than others and Wehrlein will now have some serious catching up to do in terms of gaining experience and confidence.

In the past Marchionne has said that he wouldn't enter Formula E until teams are given more freedom to develop the cars and that he didn't like how drivers have to swap cars in the middle of the racIn the past Marchionne has said that he wouldn't enter Formula E until teams are given more freedom to develop the cars and that he didn't like how drivers have to swap cars in the middle of the racin the middle of the race.

Rally drivers will do anything to fix their car and stay in the event, from something as simple as fixing a puncture to making your co-driver sit on the bonnet.

The Red Bull drivers had the chance to do so well in the Chinese GP because they took the gamble of pitting for fresh rubber behind the safety car.

You can see how each driver does in each sector, spot where they might be making small errors or gaining time, and you could see how different cars were performing.

After regular driver Sebastien Buemi did 10 laps of setup work on the car, Alonso jumped in and pounded around for much of the rest of the day, completing 113 laps.

FI has done a great job with little money in terms of the car, the drivers work well together and seem to have a passion, as does the entire team.

On the safety front, we didn't take car seats, and found (from our experiences in taxis without the kids) that the taxi drivers seemed to drive much more carefully when we had the kids in the back with us.

If your car does not have a built - in alert system, a simple mobile application can use technology to help drivers remain alert.

Nobody wants to be involved in a car accident, but sometimes they do happen regardless of how safe a driver you are.

The car he designed propelled Sebastian Vettel to retain his second Driver's Championship, making him the youngest person in history to do so.

The state senator, who was a passenger in a vehicle that broke the headlight of a NY1 executive's car, said that neither he nor his driver realized any damage had been done.

After seeing another driver doing just that while Burke had his own children in the car, he reconsidered.

The Transportation Research Board will put cameras and other sensors in more than 3,000 cars to find out what drivers are doing right — and wrong.

Nevertheless, Jonathan Linkov, managing editor of autos at Consumer Reports, says it can be «scary» if a driver doesn't feel immediate acceleration as the car tries to zip in front of traffic.

The researchers were surprised to find that the presence of children in the car did not affect drivers» behavior.

If the car arrives in a neighbourhood it doesn't know or a traffic situation it can not handle, it could rely on inverse semantics to ask the driver for help.

The child - sized dummy has just helped me test the first in - car system that can sense an imminent collision with pedestrians and brake automatically if the driver doesn't.

This helps researchers evaluate in a usage - specific way how a car is used, including characteristics such as route profiles or driving style: when does the driver drive more cautiously, when more aggressively?

Through their joint research it emerged that 70 per cent of drivers react quickly to emergencies, but do not press the brake pedal hard enough: trials established that only one - third of the car's braking potential is used in such situations.

Questions inquired about the frequency of operating a vehicle after using drugs or drinking alcohol, the frequency of riding in a car with a driver who did, and additional demographic information.

The image this approach evokes for me is that of designing a car in which the driver has to twist dozens of individual knobs to control the fuel mixture, spark advance and valve clearances, among other things — when all he wants to do is go from one place to another.

«As new forms of technology increasingly are available in cars, it's important that drivers don't feel compelled to answer every incoming call or text.