Sentences with phrase «driving cars drove»

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.

Not exact matches

«Accomplishing a goal is a lot less like taking a train across country,» he writes, «and a lot more like driving a bumper car.»

Drive to Starbucks in the same car I've had for 18 years, a 1996 Toyota Tacoma.

I ended up coming to work an hour later, and during my drive over the next few weeks, listened to the entirety of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (13 hours) which filled my car time with purpose.

Self - driving cars especially make sense in locations with less density in population.

Ford Motor Co on Monday said it was replacing Chief Executive Officer Mark Fields with James Hackett, the head of the unit developing self - driving cars, in response to investors» growing unease over the U.S. carmaker's stock performance and prospects.

Zimmer says that Lyft's view of self - driving vehicles» immediate future contrasts with ideas of a «magical autonomous car [that] drops out of the sky and does everything,» and also of cars with autonomous software that theoretically improve over time in the model of Tesla's Autopilot.

Wrapify, based in San Francisco and launched in July, takes an idea that's long been in the marketplace — wrapping cars with company logos and marketing messages — and drives it into the 21st century.

You stopped driving race cars in the early»60s... what is one current track you most wish you could race?

This isn't especially far - fetched in a world where insurance companies are already using sensors in cars to monitor driving habits and adjust policies accordingly.

According to Wolcott, Uber has a strategic intent of providing self - driving cars, but while the technology evolves it is managing with human drivers.

Perhaps the best illustration of how Lyft will distinguish itself moving forward lies in the company's thinking surrounding self - driving cars.

That's on top of already announced projects like a fleet of self - driving cars.

When it rains, everyone wants to drive and have their car parked, but Zirx valets or «agents» don't want to be running around in the rain to park them.

Back in December, the company began testing its self - driving cars in San Francisco.

In Canada, Deloitte recently conducted a phone survey of 768 Ontario and Quebec home and car insurance policyholders, asking if they would be interested in a device that tracks their driving behaviour.

Smartphone users in the US are already helping to drive the adoption of voice - centered app usage, which will likely facilitate the spread of voice on other platforms including smartphones and connected cars.

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

The company's nearly a dozen employees help people sell their cars on consignment by conducting test drives, handling paperwork, offering financing and providing a one - stop location for any other car - selling needs.

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

Uber was also ordered to keep engineer Anthony Levandowski away from work involving Lidar, a key sensor technology in self - driving cars that is the crux of the current litigation.

All self - driving cars tested in California or anywhere else to date have been required to have human standby drivers along.

How many of us have to stop and think about the physical steps required to turn a doorknob, start a car, or drive to work.

The company, according to the Times, had planned to launch a self - driving car service in Arizona by December.

Earlier this week, Mark Fields, who had overseen the company as its chief executive since 2014, was ousted in favor of his more self - driving car savvy subordinate, Jim Hackett.

Alphabet's (goog) Waymo self - driving car unit asked a U.S. judge on Monday to postpone an upcoming trade secrets trial against Uber Technologies (uber), so Waymo could investigate whether Uber withheld important evidence in the case.

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.

Frazier's resignation comes in the wake of a violent rally by neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, where a 32 - year - old woman was killed by a home - grown terrorist who drove his car into a crowd of counter-protestors — an act of hate - filled savagery that President Trump declined to squarely condemn.

However, the judge said «few» of Waymo «s alleged trade secrets have been traced to Uber «s self - driving car technology, and that Waymo «s patent claims against Uber have proved meritless.

The orders will then be given to Amazon Flex delivery drivers — contract drivers who, similar to Uber, drive their own cars but use Amazon's routing app to make deliveries.

But that makes Uber no different from Google, GM, and Ford, all of which are testing self - driving cars in California — and got permits to do so.

If you have a car and a clean driving record, drive for Uber or Lyft.

Apple's new CarPlay system lets iPhone 5, 5s and 5c owners control their smartphones while driving via voice (using Siri) or via a car's native dashboard - mounted touchscreen user interface.

It faces a catch - 22: It won't sell cars at lower prices that drive sales if it doesn't produce them locally, but local production won't be economical until sales rise drastically.

Blame the full - size sedan's slow demise on the national obsession with SUVs and Ford Motor Co.» s need to slash costs and remake itself for a new era of self - driving cars and shuttles.

Alphabet's Waymo unit is seeking about $ 2.6 billion from Uber for the alleged theft of one of several trade secrets in a lawsuit over self - driving cars, a lawyer for Uber said on Wednesday.

I recommend using the Audible.com app because it starts where you left off and it's easy to plug your phone into your car while driving.

He got in his car, which he now refers to as his «test lab,» and drove nearly 15,000 miles across the United States.

It's also working on drones, self - driving cars, and smart cities.

On Wednesday, Uber's self - driving cars hit the streets of Pittsburgh, as part of a pilot program available to up to 1,000 passengers.

Once I was driving on Western Blvd. (under the Hollywood sign) and a guy got out of his car at the stoplight and cold - cocked a driver who'd flipped him off and (unwisely) left the window open.

But he's already weighing his options, saying if gas goes to $ 4 a gallon he'll buy a more fuel - efficient car to use as his main ride and drive the Land Cruiser only when he needs it.

Generally, when you buy an after - market car item, you either drive up and someone installs it for you, or you attach it yourself.

Additionally, self - driving car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and more predictable than a human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»

Beginning in 2014, Shanghai allowed electric - car drivers to get a license plate without facing a wait, a $ 12,000 plate fee, or driving restrictions.

Recode obtained documents that show Uber's self - driving cars require the human standby driver to take control an average 10 times for every 8 miles of driving.

Waymo's self - driving cars now have three LiDAR sensors — a redundancy that is unmatched in the industry.

(I've left off obvious items like not using your turn signals, or texting while driving, or not clearing ice or snow off your car... hopefully avoiding any items that make you think, «Well, duh.»)

Uber Technologies must promptly return stolen confidential files to Alphabet's (googl) Waymo self - driving car unit, a federal judge ruled, while stopping short of shutting down the ride - services company's autonomous car program.

Compared to Californians, Swedes handle their cars as if they learned to drive in a carnival bumper car ride.