Sentences with phrase «driver starts the car»

When the driver starts the car, the climate and headlight controls rise up from the dashboard and the center stack.

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Last year, he started Ryderz Van Service with his girlfriend's car; the business now has three cars, two full - time drivers (Buari and his girlfriend, Chi), and two freelance drivers.

The experience started before I even left my apartment, when a black car pulled up outside my house and the driver helped me with my luggage and unloaded me at the airport, an amenity all Emirates Business & First Class passengers can take advantage of.

Meanwhile, Lyft rival Uber started to offer car leasing in November 2013, and revamped the program last July with more flexibility for drivers and fewer penalties if they decide to end their lease.

Starting in 2005, GoDaddy ran a series of racy Super Bowl commercials featuring women such as race car driver Danica Patrick and supermodel Bar Rafaeli — usually in some state of undress.

This will enable drivers to talk to devices in their home while equally offering the ability to start their car or check vehicle stats from the comfort of their favorite armchair.

Donations from area nonprofits and businesses are also funding a second free ride option that started on Friday: the mobile app BeMyDD, through which people can hire a driver to get both them and their car home.

An electric auto pact could start with a trilateral commitment to invest in charging infrastructure for electric cars across the continent, so that drivers can have confidence they'll find the power they need wherever their route takes them.

When he started Uber with a few friends in 2009, the idea was to create an app that would give town car drivers extra fares during their down time.

Since the crash, those reports have said, Tesla has updated its Autopilot feature to include a strikeout system, whereby drivers who repeatedly ignore safety warnings risk having their Autopilot disabled until the next time they start the car.

Race director Charlie Whiting said the start rules haven't changed for 20 years, and that there have been only two cases (the other being Daniel Ricciardo in Japan last year) of drivers positioning their cars outside the grid boxes.

Alongside media duties and meeting the drivers, the video also shows Alonso sitting in Marco Andretti's car, which coincidentally wasn't able to start the race due to an issue...

A number of car failures kept causing accidents in testing and the drivers started refusing to drive it.

As the drivers faced their cars for that comic half sprint, half shuffle known as the Le Mans start, rain doused the course.

The commission members are former IndyCar team owner Tom Kelley; Tim Clauson, an ex-race car driver and mechanic whose son Bryan started the 2012 Indy 500; Earl Goode, former chairman of Indiana Sports Corp. and a former aide to former Gov. Mitch Daniels; Ryan Kitchell, CEO of Indiana University Health and the state's former public finance director; and Chris Atkins, director of Indiana's Office of Management and Budget.

A car that's stalled on the grid at the start of a race is a scary situation for everyone involved — especially the driver who didn't get away from the line, and the chasing pack.

It got to a point where some teams would roll up to a grand prix weekend with one of their drivers amassing something like a 65 - place grid penalty and starting the race in car parking zone Z.

The season actually begins with Pre-Season testing, a chance for teams, cars and drivers to familiarise themselves with each other, and start preparing for the battle to come.

The drivers start to arrive in the middle of the afternoon, lining up according to racing class: motorcycles and hot rods towed in on trailers on one side, street - legal sports cars in the middle, and, at the very far end of the pit, a couple lines of high school kids flanked on one side by black and white patrol cars.

The few spectators — mostly friends of those behind the wheel and erstwhile drivers who will lapse morosely into long descriptions of what exactly has kept their car in the shop this week with little provocation — hang around the starting line in twos and threes, arms crossed.

Despite not participating in qualifying on Friday, all 11 drivers that missed the session will start Saturday night's race — albeit at the rear of the 40 - car field.

«Fast Friday» sees teams and drivers really start to push the limits of their cars as they gear up for the qualifying weekend, and typically the fastest laps of the entire month are seen during the session.

Ferrari reserve driver Antonio Giovinazzi took over the Sauber C36 during that first test but Wehrlein has now passed medical checks and will get to drive the car in the second Barcelona test, which starts on Tuesday the 7th of March.

When a driver is coming up to lap someone they have to be within a certain distance before the slower car will start to get shown blue flags.

F1 rules say if that happens a driver isn't allowed to regain their grid position once they've passed the first safety car line and must start the race from the pits.

There's a lot going on at the start of a race, and drivers have to really be aware of the cars around them, otherwise it can all end in tears.

Drivers have a limited amount of them to use during the race, and although they can only use it when they're within a second of the car ahead at the start of the lap, they can do so at whatever part of the track they like, and for three times on that lap.

Like so many other talented drivers later would, he started his F1 career with the Minardi team, but the unreliable cars meant he only actually reached finished five races in two seasons with the team.

There was a dramatic crash in the Uruguay Superturismo championship when driver José Luis Matos made contact with another car at the start.

Drivers had to start Q3 with the amount of fuel they were going to start the race with, which meant that much of the session was spent watching cars driving around trying to use as much fuel as possible in order to make their car as light as possible for their flying laps.

In fact the cars are going so slowly down the straight that Alonso thinks other drivers are struggling to tell whether or not the McLaren drivers are about to start a quick lap or head into the pits.

What's even more ridiculous is because of the recent driver swapping at Toro Rosso, Kvyat isn't technically driving the car he drove at the start of the season.

The grid sets up an intriguing race for tomorrow and the Mercedes drivers look like they could genuinely struggle to finish any better than they start - well, maybe one position higher once Verstappen's car inevitably breaks down.

He was another driver to get off to a poor start and big vibrations from the car toward the end mean he was left languishing in P13.

The Government plans to adapt road regulations, which requires changes to the Highway Code, to allow companies to start running trials of cars that do not need a human driver.

Lee, 50, of Hurley, Ulster County, reported Friday to the Albany County jail and will have an ignition interlock device — which checks whether a driver is intoxicated before it allows the car's engine to start — on any vehicle she drives for the duration of her probation.

I picked up a copy of «Telling it as it is» at the book launch on April 3, 2018 in Victoria Island and I started reading it in the car as my driver navigated out of the venue.

Meanwhile, the driver got out of the car after a few minutes and started yelling, saying that Davis had run a red light, according to Ballantine.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

This is starting to happen already: all - electric cars or plug - in hybrids are beginning to hit the mass market, and will be particularly appropriate for urban or suburban drivers where the limited range of current battery technology is less of a concern.

Dawson and Riggs start by assuming that drivers gauge the speed of traffic by watching the cars that immediately surround them.

An experimental system called SignalGuru uses a network of smart phones in cars to minimize driver stops and starts.

Cars equipped with an ignition interlock won't start if the driver's blood alcohol level exceeds a preset limit.

i'm athletic, into sports, walks in the country, swimming, have always had a dream of becoming a racing driver, would love to start by buying a small car and doing my own races from there and progressing.

Codemasters previously announced that both the Safety Car and Virtual Safety Car are featured in this year's game; they will be complimented by the addition of manual race starts, adding to the pressure on the driver as they sit on the grid.

The fun is just getting started, as Abby revels in the opportunity to show up her popular, privileged neighbor, classmate, and longtime rival Krista Cook (Karissa Tynes), who is also celebrating her birthday with a new car and driver's license.

The film starts with siblings Elle (Ricci, Anything Else) and Jimmy (Eisenberg, Roger Dodger) driving one night on Mulholland Drive when some sort of beast jumps on their car, causing them to smash another driver (Elizabeth, Thirteen Ghosts) off the road.

When Jackson Hole High School in Wyoming shifted its start time to 8:55 a.m., the number of car crashes involving teenage drivers dropped by 70 %

Starting your car and «punching it» Years ago, my dealer had a shuttle driver that would do this.

Putting the smartphone near the driver's door handle unlocks the door, and having the smartphone in the car's interior means that you can activate the car's push - button start system.