Sentences with phrase «drivers of cars in»

This friction normally allows the car to «grip» the road — keeping the tires in contact with the relatively rough road surface, and the driver of the car in control.

Can passengers seek damages from the driver of the car in which they were hurt?

In most cases, the alcohol - impaired driver was the driver of the car in which the child was riding.

A 21 - year - old man of the 2200 block of East 92nd Street was killed when the driver of the car in which he was a passenger struck a squad car.

If you are an injured passenger, you can file a claim against the driver of the car in which you were riding.

For example, if you're a passenger in a car struck by an uninsured driver, you could collect benefits from the car insurance policy of the driver of the car in which you are a passenger, as well as from your own policy if the driver's UM / UIM benefits were not enough to pay for your injuries.

A driving school aims to push drivers not to tailgate and stay very close to the car in front to avoid crashes when sudden brakes are applied by the driver of the car in front.

Not exact matches

Try this zipper stunt in stop - and - go Los Angeles traffic and you'll get locked out of the merge, because the drivers of the queued cars will drive bumper - to - bumper to lock you out.

We will end up playing catch - up with the rest of the world and miss out on the most amazing transition of our lifetimes: into an era in which we become the drivers in driverless cars.

CNBC's Eunice Yoon goes car shopping with a local in Beijing to discover the preferences of Chinese drivers.

In a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stocIn a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stocin stock.

Volvo is currently deploying a test fleet of 100 largely autonomous cars among ordinary drivers in Sweden, though the AVs will be restricted to certain roads and speeds.

«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.»

In the U.S., a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into the 2016 death of Tesla driver Joshua Brown concluded that his over-reliance on Autopilot contributed to his car's collision with a tractor - trailer.

Bhavesh Patel, 39, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a witness saw him sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the driver's seat empty, as it drove along the famous M1 highway on May 21 of last year.

Drivers who agree to participate in the tests will have a small data - collecting box installed in the trunk area of their car and two small antennas — one on or near the rear windshield and another on the roof.

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).

There is a significant demand for GPS trackers as parents of teenage drivers are aware that they require trackers in the cars of their children to monitor their movements.

At the moment, everything in a car from a design point of view is based on a 100 - year - old package — engine in the front, and a driver holding a steering wheel behind.

General Motors (gm), which pioneered the connected car with its OnStar concierge service, sent a software update to million of vehicles in December, introducing an e-commerce system that lets drivers order coffee or make restaurant reservations while driving — to the chagrin of some safety advocates.

Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the car rental service has a fleet of 2,000 vehicles, 10 percent of them hybrids, available to drivers from Toronto to Minneapolis to Boston and Washington, D.C..

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

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).

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.

There are a lot of features in this car that the average driver may not be used to, but these features prevent the Audi from feeling daunting.

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.

Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short - term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

Free law advice: A driver once told me a story about how he had a high - priced lawyer in the back of his car during a time when he was going through a legal issue.

The company's proposed Highway Drive Assist System automatically keeps cars in the correct lane and maintains an appropriate distance between vehicles, while the Autonomous Emergency Stop System will sense if the driver is debilitated and then maneuver the car to the shoulder of the road to stop.

Up to that point, Google had quietly sent early versions of the car, with a «safety driver» behind the wheel, more than 100,000 miles in California.

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.

Coming soon: «safe driving system» technology to keep track of your business's employee - drivers, as well as that teen in the family car.

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

One feature the company is touting, for example, will park the car for you at the press of a button — «like magic,» says a test driver in Ford's promotional video.

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.

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.

The driver of the car looked really angry about something, and he was clearly in a hurry.

Daily, weekly and monthly car rentals from Hertz are now available as part of a pilot program for Lyft drivers in Las Vegas, said Oliver Hsiang, Lyft's vice president of partnerships.

Uber uses technology to drive down the cost of labor by replacing a regulated, protected class of worker (in this case, taxi drivers) with a non-protected worker (in this case, anyone with a driver's license and decent car).

«Their driver monitor system isn't as good as some other systems in terms of assuring that someone is paying attention,» said David Friedman, Director of Cars and Product Policy and Analysis for Consumers Union, the advocacy division of Consumer Reports.

But by 2019 or 2020, «we'll have removed drivers from the car,» Glen DeVos, Delphi's vice president of engineering said in an interview.

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.

In 2011, he and several partners (including former race car driver Ron Fellows) established Canadian Motorsport Ventures, a company that bought Mosport International Raceway, Canada's largest automotive racetrack located east of Toronto.

The cars will be hitting the streets of Pittsburgh in August, where those hailing an Uber may get a chance to ride in one with human supervision in the driver seat.

In the lawsuit, the drivers alleged that because Lyft has misclassified them as contract workers instead of employees, it owes them reimbursement for expenses like gas and car maintenance.

In return, participating drivers get a sort of seal of approval to display on their cars along with potentially lucrative access to passengers at restricted locations like Austin's airport and the city's many festivals.

Last month, the city council approved a separate set of regulations that requires that drivers display the companies they work for in their cars (such as Lyft's pink mustache), mentions fingerprinting as part of the background check requirements, and outlines restricted areas at the airport and during large festivals.

Uber had faced a long string of serious setbacks: A self - driving car that ran a red light, a lawsuit for allegedly stealing the information to create that self - driving car, a scandal about software designed to deceive law enforcement in cities where the company was operating illegally, and video of Kalanick cursing out a driver.