Sentences with phrase «drives at car shows»

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Click (buy online) and pick (drive to the store to get it) has become amazingly popular — especially with moms who'd rather throw the kids in the car and make three quick pickups at her favorite stores, without parking, instead of sitting at home and hoping for the delivery guy to show.

BMW has announced it wants to build a crash - proof car, and, at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I rode in a self - driving BMW i3, sitting in the passenger seat of a driverless sedan while it piloted itself down a simple short course — maybe 100 feet long.

The journey to a law in California began in January 2011 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, where Nevada legislator - turned - lobbyist David Goldwater began chatting up Anthony Levandowski, one of the self - driving car project's leaders.

Biz Carson: Before you started running the self - driving car show at Uber and before Google, you'd already had an interest in self - driving vehicles.

The day of the race, even at the qualifying event, when you saw all of these people getting there cars kind of working, you could really feel there was something special about «Wow, it would be really cool if a car could show up and drive somewhere.»

A Google self - driving car is shown in an exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., in 2014

A Google self - driving car is shown in an exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., in 2014 (Photo: Eric Risberg, AP)

Even though self - driving - car company and Google spinoff Waymo didn't make any news in Detroit this week, CEO John Krafcik showed up at Cobo Center in a self - driving Chrysler Pacifica.

New surveillance video shows accused killer Lois Riess at a hotel in Ocala, Florida, and driving what appears to be the car she stole from the woman killed on Fort Myers Beach.

Chris Urmson, shown here last March at South by Southwest Interactive with Google's prototype self - driving car, announced that he would be departing the search company, where he was chief technology officer for its autonomous car project for seven years.

While polls show a third of U.S. consumers are interested in buying self - driving cars, the rest are skittish because they're worried about losing control, said Thilo Koslowski, vice president and automotive practice leader at Gartner Inc..

Half way through the drive, attendees can get out of their car to stop at Holiday Village where there is food, gifts, Santa, the new indoor laser show and the Holiday Magic Lighted Walk - Through Forest.

Striving to show her grit and daring, she played football with the stableboys, drove cars and motorcycles at breakneck speeds and once, on a dare, climbed to the precarious upper reaches of the Laurel water tower.

Recently he took part in the WEC rookie test at Bahrain, where he drove the ByKolles LMP1 car and showed good pace.

Despite being an interloper whose full - time occupation is driving a McLaren - Honda Formula One car, Alonso never showed an ounce of arrogance in the days he spent at Indianapolis.

With the help of the charity Mission Motorsport, he's been learning to drive using prosthetic limbs and cars with hand controls, and he'll be putting his skills to use at the Autosport International show this weekend as part of a stunt driving team.

The spot shows the freshman Republican hard at work, interacting with constituents, driving a car.

When reporter Marcia Kramer kindly reminded him of an incident last year in which she showed up at his Mamaroneck home and (get ready for this) he put on an orange ski mask, held a baby in front of his face, and then sped off in a car driven by his wife, Espada got testy:

Last week, car companies from around the world lined up at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas to announce their latest technology and investment in autonomous driving.

You can't drive across town in a car with no gas and you certainly can't get in a gold star workout on an empty stomach,» says Tara Gidus, MS, RD, CSSD, Team Dietitian for the NBA's Orlando Magic and co-host of Emotional Mojo National TV show at dietdiva.net.

We may want to know what car you drive, but we'll see it eventually when you show up at the restaurant and drive up in your car.

I love cars and would love to go to some car shows also love driving and I'm good at it.

Im old school hippy type dude I drive old vw buses and bugs straight out of a dead head scene i am 420 friendly i am a social drinker i like to go to old rock concerts vw car shows and i also like the outdoors i enjoy camping and hiking and at this point in my life i want to live like everyday is...

SUBSTANCE USE - A man drinks window cleaner and passes out in a park, a woman smokes marijuana at home as well as in a car while riding and while driving and in a restaurant where other men and women are also smoking marijuana, a woman offers marijuana to a friend who declines, several house party scenes show people injecting themselves with drugs, we see prescription bottles and rubber tubing stretched around a person's arm (injections occur off screen), a man drinks from a bottle of codeine cough syrup, goes to the drug store, purchases another bottle and drinks part of it while walking home and later a female neighbor drinks the rest of it in his home, and a man places a marijuana cigarette in his mouth to hide it from a policeman and says it made him feel sick like a bomb was strapped to his chest.

Inevitably, Bobby also shows up at the drive - in, hiding himself behind the huge screen and shooting down the patrons as they sit complacently in their cars, watching the latest Byron Orlock film (actually The Terror, in which Karloff also starred).

Four men drink beer, four men drink shots of alcohol in a several scenes, we see glasses partially filled with alcohol scattered around a room, people drink alcohol at a reception, people gambling in a casino are shown drinking alcohol, two men drink shots of alcohol, and a man, while drinking beer, asks to take a turn driving a car and says he drives really well when he's drunk.

When Laurent shows up at Pete's car garage, it's hard to deny the influence that found its way into Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, with its Hollywood Hills backdrop, blue - collar shop fronts and other recurring motifs.

A scene where the woman (Alesandra Maria Lara) who will become Niki Lauda's wife eggs him on to show off his driving skills in a borrowed car, makes an elegant segue to Lauda in mid-race at a Grand Prix.

I've fantasized about running an all - wheel - drive Porsche sports car as a year - round driver ever since the Porsche 959 first appeared at the 1985 Frankfurt Auto Show.

Don't feel bad about not being able to take the Cabby to the show, at least your project car is drive able.

There is yet another chapter in the long story that is the promised Subaru / Toyota rear - wheel - drive sports coupe: at the Frankfurt Motor Show, Subaru will preview its version of the performance car with the BRZ Prologue concept.

About the Chiron: at least a Chiron is a car which is very safe and shows comfort, but other supercars are made for the track with a driving permission.

Aston Martin GB4GT: The first of the few — Paul Chudecki describes the DB4GT, launched at the 1959 London Motor Show, and drives the very first customer car / Edmund Rumpler's Tropfen - auto — Few cars have shocked the automotive world on the scale of the radical Rumpler Tropfen - Auto of 1921.

An eclectic selection of machines dans son jus met in the Welsh Borders on Drive - It Day in perfect Spring weather / The story of Farman, part two — Reg Winstone continues his look at the Farman motor car, as well as delving into the background of the Farman Brothers / Travel with Style: Concours d'Elégance — Peter Stevens reports from Cartier's second Indian concours, with some rare as well as humble cars on show / Durham Motor Works — Tim Harding recounts the motoring exploits of the owners of the Durham Motor Works in Ealing, South London / Cheap Cylinder Heads: Curiosity or Cure?

Scottish Ice & Snow Rally — Zoe Harrison reports on this event which turned out to be something of a misnomer / The 1922 Webb Super Nine — An account by Bryan Demaus of a little - known car briefly manufactured in Stourport - on - Severn / First of the Healeys — The Editor tells us how much he enjoyed driving the extremely rare 1947 Healey Westland / Three VSCC events — In his Diary of a dilettante Tom Threlfall records the action in Herefordshire and Wales and at Silverstone / 1931 Rambler Cross Country — Paul Ponsel writes about his encounter with this early American five - passenger phaeton / Motoring magazines over the years — A brief survey by Michael Worthington - Williams of the many periodicals on motoring that have been published / 1929 Armstrong Siddeley — David Hawtin describes a fabric - bodied l5hp saloon that took eight years to restore / Paris Retromobile — Peter Russell went to France again this year to visit the popular old - car show / Two Mercedes 38/250 SS — The story of the 1929 cars owned and raced by Lord Howe and Sir Malcolm Campbell is told by A.F. Rivers Fletcher

Mercedes - Benz has announced that it's planning to launch the SLS AMG Electric Drive next year, after the car's show debut at the Paris motor show.

Add to all this Skoda's first real go at autonomous driving capability and its display at a contemporary motor show such as Shanghai, this is proof of Skoda's intent on being a real voice in the future of mainstream car manufacturing.

That's incredible - they drove at about 65 kilometers per hour and that's not a traffic jam where hybrid cars show themselves well, so «hybrid» alone doesn't explain how it was possible.

We first got an indication of Kia's sports - car ambitions with the GT4 Stinger concept car shown at the 2014 Detroit auto show, a rear - wheel - drive coupe powered by a 315 - hp, 2.0 - liter turbo - four.

When the next Cube debuts at the L.A. auto show in November, a version of the Nissan Versa's 122 - hp, 1.8 - liter four will live under the hood, and the car's basic bones will come from Nissan's front - wheel - drive B platform, also used for the Versa.

Yet we forget that Musk drove a McLaren F1 to the very first showing of the Tesla Roadster at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica, California, back in 2006, and as he has struggled to build the company's cars and make them reliable since then, he seems to have acquired a deeper understanding of things automotive.

BMW revealed the car at the Detroit auto show in January, and now we've just driven it down the Pacific Coast Highway and at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

Engine: 2.5 - liter, 16 - valve DOHC flat - 4 / 175 hp @ 5,800 rpm, 174 lb - ft @ 4,000 rpm EPA mileage: 26/36/30 mpg (city / highway / combined) The latest version of the Subaru Legacy midsize sedan bowed at the 2014 Chicago auto show, and brings fresh design, more technology, and improved fuel economy to the all - wheel - drive car.

Behold the future of Porsche: a 600 - hp, all - wheel - drive, all - electric super sedan that's a clear competitor to the Tesla Model S. Called the Porsche Mission E, this striking new concept car debuts at the 2015 Frankfurt auto show with a futuristic, 911 - inspired design inside and out and an innovative electrified drivetrain.

The Mazda RX - Vision concept, revealed at the Tokyo auto show, is a rear - wheel - drive coupe previewing a successor to the RX - 8 and RX - 7 sports cars.

After attending hundreds of auto shows and looking at many thousands of new cars in their intense ambience, I have come to judge a design's value by a simple question: do I want to get in and drive it?

You MUST always change the pads on both sides of the car at the same time, otherwise you could end up with a dangerous mismatch between them - which might not be obvious in normal driving, until you have to do an emergency stop... Bad bearings should show up when you span the hub before refitting the new pads (hence why I asked that originally).

Nissan's Esflow, a futuristic Z - car that was a big hit at the Geneva auto show in March, employs two electric motors to drive its rear wheels.

Even so, it did help us understand that this concept car introduced at the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show is about more than just the latest technology for autonomous driving.

It's easy to take the M3 nameplate for granted now, yet as these three cars show, it took a long time to sort out its identity, and the enthusiasms and prejudices of those who drive the car on the street — people like us — played a bigger role than we realized at the time.