Sentences with phrase «drivers on the road drive»

Since a significant number of drivers on the road drive without car insurance, it is crucial to have uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage as a part of your car insurance policy.

Nonetheless, there are still a number of drivers on the road driving with expired or no insurance at all.

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If you happen to be driving at speed on the roadways, and you and all the other drivers around you are suddenly blind, I think that would probably result in crashes and injuries and road blockages.»

CALIFORNIA UPDATES SELF - DRIVING REGULATIONS: The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) released updated fully autonomous car regulations earlier this week, allowing fully autonomous cars with no driver on public roads.

In its findings on Tuesday, the NTSB said the self - driving system's «operational design» was a contributing factor to the 2016 crash because it allows drivers to avoid steering or watching the road for lengthy periods of time that were «inconsistent» with warnings from Tesla.

In addition to the usual hazards of driving a tanker on the road, these drivers have to handle cryogenic nitrogen and others gases that have the potential to freeze off fingers or be accidentally inhaled.

Proposed regulations would let companies test self - driving cars on public roads without a human driver present.

And during the years after that, we'll see both self - driving cars and cars with human drivers on the road, as the former gradually replaces the latter.

The two - seater vehicles that are tested on public roads are equipped with removable steering wheels, accelerator pedals, and brake pedals so test drivers can take over driving if necessary.

All three vehicles in each convoy will still have a driver in the cabin — but it's a significant step forward in efforts to test autonomous driving technology on British roads.

It's possible that Tesla will find that driving on Autopilot actually reduces safety — perhaps because drivers get complacent about their responsibility to watch the road.

According to a BSO warrant, Zachary Cruz violated probation by driving a brown Kia SUV without a valid driver's license on Northern Boulevard, just east of Jog Road in Lake Worth, on Saturday, April 28.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

For example: During the week ending March 8, the 43 active cars on the road only drove an average of close to 0.8 miles before the safety driver had to take over for one reason or another.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

«All investors now have and should hedge this exposure — much like a driver should own car insurance especially if they plan to drive on a road they know is particularly dangerous.»

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

Millions of fans look to NASCAR drivers for the proper way to conduct themselves on the road, and if NASCAR and the race teams don't take a DUI charge seriously by issuing a severe penalty, it sends the message that drunk driving is somehow not that bad.

GT Le Mans is basically the same as the GTE - Pro class of the WEC, with GT racers based on road - going models like the Chevrolet Corvette and Porsche 911, generally driven by professional drivers.

Some drivers are reckless and don't give much attention to the road they are driving on.

For the safety of your teen and for other drivers on the road, no texting while driving needs to be the rule.

Even if you drive carefully, this does not mean that other drivers are responsible on the road too.

Aleksandr Babayev, 54, of Skokie, a driver for a funeral home, allegedly drove through a red light while eastbound on Palatine Road, authorities said.

Dr Papa Kwesi Nduom of the Progressive People's Party (PPP) has reminded Ghanaians to exert pressure on the government to make our roads safe and prevent bad drivers from driving on them.

England and Wales left with the highest drink - drive limit in Europe after Malta announces plans to lower legal blood alcohol content for drivers Road safety groups and emergency services call for England and Wales to follow suit No progress on UK drink driving deaths since 2010 Public opinion polls show 77 % in favour of a lower legal limit

The NDC minority has also argued that per the agreement, the US army would drive their vehicles in Ghana without certification by the Driver Vehicle License Authority (DVLA), something they fear will pose danger on our roads.

47,000 drivers with three or more drunk driving convictions are still on the road.

The bill would allow for charges to be imposed on a driver involved in an accident where a pedestrian, cyclist or other road user suffers injury or death as a result of unsafe driving.

The on topic Q&A included redesign plans for other streets, especially Queens Boulevard, why the administration attributes the reduction in pedestrian fatalities to Vision Zero and not to regular year - to - year variances, how the administration actually knows that driving speeds are reduced, why so few street redesign projects have been done on Staten Island, data for any changes in safety at this E.Tremont / Silver Street intersection, why Commissioner Bratton did not attend, why there are few speeding and failure to yield tickets issued in this (45th) precinct, the negative effect of speed bumps on emergency response vehicles, plans for marking and painting of roads, whether the mayor will seek additional red light camera authorizations from the state legislature, the paucity of criminal prosecutions against drivers who kill pedestrians and an estimate of money received from speed camera tickets.

He also believes that public safety is a huge priority, and wants to meet with all of the schoolbus drivers to get their input on what they see as potential hazards or dangers on the roads as they drive schoolchildren to and from their homes.

Toptech Transport & Logistics, one of Africa's leading institutions in driver education, has launched a project dubbed «Off - road Driving Festival», which seeks offer training to users of 4 × 4 vehicles on how to navigate through the most difficult terrains safely, without causing damages to a vehicle.

«Distracted driving can cause harm and even death for people working on the roads and cause enormous pain for their families, but it can also destroy the life of the driver who causes the incident by failing to pay attention.

«With summer quickly approaching, we will see more teen drivers on the road, along with more pedestrians, bicyclists, and children playing — now is the time to disconnect and drive and pledge to keep our roads safe all year long.

(Caveat: That impressive figure, pulled from a study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, excludes intoxicated drivers and assumes that everyone on the road is driving a talking car, that every intersection and stop sign in America can join in the conversation, and that the auto industry agrees on standardized equipment for all this chatter.)

When I drive, because of course I am an excellent driver, I marvel at the incompetence of all the humans who are driving the other vehicles on the road.

Since drivers decide for themselves when they drive, price in this setting influences not only the firm's margin but also the number of drivers out on the road serving customers,» said Kaitlin Daniels, assistant professor of operations and manufacturing management at Olin.

While all distractions impair a driver to some degree, texting while driving draws eyes away from the road for longer than fiddling with the radio or even dialing on a cell phone.

«The pattern of results,» they wrote, «suggests drivers with higher tendencies to morally disengage in the driving context may respond to others more aggressively on - road.»

Hannah, who graduated with a BSc in Psychology at The University of Nottingham in 2013, said: «Driving simulators provide the opportunity to safely train drivers to deal with hazardous situations that may arise on road but which would be too dangerous to examine otherwise.

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.

He compares it to an old joke about a communist bureaucracy: The leaders wanted drivers to switch from the left side of the road to the right, «but because this was a very complicated and delicate matter, they would begin on Monday with only party members switching sides, and everyone else would drive as before.

The researchers measured blame by looking at more than 50 driver factors coded in the FARS database, including such «unambiguous» factors as driving through a red light or driving on the wrong side of the road.

Last May, he was a passenger during a test - drive of a new BMW luxury sedan when the driver misjudged a curve on a country road just outside Modesto, California.

All drivers know from personal experience that they must keep their eyes on the road when driving through curves.

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.

Young, inexperienced drivers have the highest accident rates on the road - they account for 25 per cent of road deaths, and one in five will crash within their first year of driving.

The House will take up the texting while driving ban aka «TTYL» bill (HB2) sponsored by Rep. Jim McClendon, Rep. Mac McCutcheon's legislation adding utility trucks and wreckers to the list of vehicles for which drivers are required to slow down and move into a vacant lane for when parked on the side of the road (HB76), and Rep. Allen Farley's bill to crack down on synthetic drugs known as «spice» or «salts» (HB158).

JLR has been developing its «Jaguar Virtual Windscreen» concept that is said to «aid road and track driving,» as well as «Smart Assist» technology that learns driver characteristics to then provide maximum assistance on the road.

He also mentioned that his brand's future diesel and hybrid models will be complimentary of each other and that his product portfolio will continue to cater to a variety of eco-conscious drivers, particularly those that drive long distances on open roads (ideal for diesel) or those commuting in congested urban streets (ideal for hybrid).