Sentences with phrase «drivers of company cars»

Cantor's Driving School offers driver training, evaluations and certification programs for drivers of company cars.

Most likely there has only been one driver of the company car.

Most likely there has only been one driver of the company car, and they are often well maintained.

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Tesla's vehicles already can assist drivers with highway driving, and the company has said its goal is for its cars to be fully autonomous by the end of this year.

Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO Travis Kalanick said Wednesday at the inaugural Code Conference.

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.

Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO said at the inaugural Code Conference.

«I want to help power companies prevent power outages, I want to help police identify patterns of crime that they didn't know about, I want to help race car drivers win races, and I want to help doctors predict medical outcomes.»

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.

Ridesharing companies don't let drivers work out of other people's cars, but the program designed by Peers partners ridesharing drivers with cars through the hybrid rental company Breeze.

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.

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.

Caption: NEW YORK, NY - FEBRUARY 01: Uber drivers protest the company's recent fare cuts and go on strike in front of the car service's New York offices on February 1, 2016 in New York City.

«They're beating the cars with metal bats,» the singer Courtney Love posted on Twitter from an Uber car in Paris at a time of clashes between the company and taxi drivers in 2015.

Providing this service allows our Chairman and our CEO while in transit to work safely and have confidential telephone conversations undisturbed, and thus provides a benefit to the Company that more than offsets the relatively modest incremental cost for their non-business use of a car and driver over the past year.

Chan gave the example of fleet management, allowing companies to see how long their drivers are on the road, and the condition of the car.

While Uber, the global leader in on - demand transportation, relies on thousands of independent drivers, Uber's business platform enables the transition to self - driving cars, one of the company's stated strategic priorities.

A video of Kalanick aggressively berating one of his own drivers swiftly followed, as did a lawsuit from Google driverless car sister company Waymo for trade - secret misappropriation.

Then, on Wednesday, a video of Kalanick in an unfortunate argument with a driver for asking about the status of the company's premium car service, UberBlack, surfaced.

The notification says that companies applying for public road tests should have already tested the cars in closed roads and areas, and that a driver with at least three years of experience should always be in the driving seat and ready to take over if necessary.

The core innovation of ride - hailing companies like Uber and Lyft was using non-professional drivers in their own cars to avoid these regulations — a throwback to the era, nearly a century ago, before all those rules were imposed in the first place.

But taking drivers out of the equation would also increase the company's profits: Self - driving cars give Uber 100 percent of the fare, the company would no longer have to subsidize driver pay and the cars can run nearly 24 hours a day.

As of earlier this year, the company's cars had to be taken over by a human driver once every.8 miles, according to documents Recode first obtained.

The company observed that once behind the wheel of the self - driving Lexus SUVs, the drivers got quickly distracted and stopped paying attention to the car going about on its way.

According to Bloomberg, Google intends to create an Alphabet - run company dedicated to essentially competing with Uber, proffering cars that can chaffeur you from place to place without the hassle of hiring scores of drivers (according to SFGate, companies like Uber and Lyft experience a high employee turnover).

If a car, when it breaks down, causes a nuclear explosion, you can blame the driver for not taking care of the engine — a little bit, but you also blame the stupid car company that made a car that is ABLE to break down and cause such death and destruction by its mere misuse.

Teen drivers face a lot of danger and according to the insurance company GEICO, 1 in 15 16 - year - olds will get into a car accident during their first year of driving.

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.

The challenge for companies testing the technology has been New York's motor vehicle law requiring that a driver have both hands on the wheel of car while it is in operation.

A few forward - thinking large companies have installed electric outlets accessible to employee parking, but most plug - in hybrid and electric car drivers will be looking for help well beyond the scope of their commutes.

In addition to offering vehicles powered by a number of alternatives (fuel, battery or both), car companies are going to win customers in the future based on the networked services they offer drivers and passengers and how well these services are delivered, says Nancy Gioia, Ford Motor Co.'s director of Sustainable Mobility Technologies and Hybrid Vehicle Programs.

But in the absence of federal law regulating the use of autonomous vehicles and driver - assist technology, the U.S. government could simply stand back and allow companies to put more self - driving cars on public roads to collect the necessary safety data, says Alain Kornhauser, a transportation engineer and adviser for Princeton University's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.

All of the major auto companies have stepped up efforts to deliver in - car «infotainment» that integrates drivers» mobile phones, the Internet and portable digital music players with GPS navigation and emergency response services.

But as far as the question of accountability and liability goes, we might already be homing in on an answer, one that points to a shift in how the root cause of damage is assessed: When a computerized driver replaces a human one, experts say the companies behind the software and hardware sit in the legal liability chain — not the car owner or the person's insurance company.

As with the previous Ferrari FXX, which was based on the Ferrari Enzo, the FXX K is really a rolling research laboratory for Ferrari; the exclusive list of drivers able to buy the car can only get behind the wheel on certain race tracks as part of a test program for the company.

Fans obsessed with the Italian automaker will undoubtedly take an interest in the book, as it highlights every road and race car ever constructed by Ferrari, every driver contracted by the company, and a complete history of the automaker itself.

As McLaren Automotive test driver Chris Goodwin explains, every McLaren is tested at the high - speed oval at Nardo in Italy, just like a lot of cars from other companies.

With the racing car division founded by Bruce McLaren in 1963, and the road car division founded by Ron Dennis in 1985, very few companies have enjoyed such a successful renaissance period - in the space of just six years, the brand has gone from a one - hit wonder to one of the world's premier supercar manufacturers, with a brilliant lineup encompassing everything from daily drivers to insane track - only monsters.

The hundred or so judges, hand - picked by Warner, form a cross-section of the crème de la crème of the collector - car universe — super-rich owners, champion race car drivers, celebrated car designers, high - level car - company executives, museum curators, classic - car restorers, and other assorted experts.

To celebrate the 30 - year anniversary of when Saleen and General Tire won the 1987 Driver, Manufacturer, Team, and Tire SCCA ESCORT Endurance Championships, Saleen has partnered with the tire company once again to provide customers with a unique race and street - spec limited edition Ford Mustang that also replicates the winning car's livery.

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It sounds like an odd product launch from a company focused on driver's cars — until you learn that one third of all Panamera sales are in China, where the wealthy prefer not to drive themselves.

Google plans to build 100 prototype versions of these self - driving cars for company drivers to test this summer.

A brief search of the Internet is all it takes to find tales of Villeneuve, the late Ferrari Formula 1 driver who's flamboyant driving style won him many fans, and his company car — a 1978 Ferrari 308 GTS in the wonderfully orangey Rosso Dino color.

Similarly, though Porsche makes a big deal of the fact that the 996 is an all - new car, the company's old endurance - racing imperatives have shaped this 911's driver environment, its controls, and, ultimately, its performance.

You can gurantee the bulk of company car drivers will just choose whatever is the German option on the list they can have, all else wont even be considered.

From there, the company went racing — even signing Niki Lauda as a driver, and later Hans Stuck — and achieved plenty of success in touring car events.

As Part Of The Company Options, You Could Also Opt For The Extremely Expensive Factory F1 Performance Pack Which Would Still Take The Driver And Passengers From 0 - 62 MPH In Just 4.5 Seconds, But Would Increase The Top Speed From 155 MPH To A Rather Impressive 186 MPH And With This Specification Costing Just Over # 8500.00, But Due To This Massive Cost Option Many Clients Decided Against This, However This Has Now Meant For 2018 That These Now Rare F1 Performance Cars Are Viewed As Being The Ultimate AMG Modern Day Classic Vehicle, With Many Cars Being Acquired For Already Established Global Car Collections.

Both are rated at 158g / km for CO2 emissions, so company - car drivers will face a Benefit - in - Kind (BiK) figure of 30 %.