Sentences with phrase «driving millions of miles»

With hundreds of thousands of trucks driving millions of miles annually, the risk of being seriously injured on the roads by a truck is significant.

Although firms like Google and Uber are teaching their software by physically driving millions of miles in the real world, they also train their algorithms using pre-recorded footage of traffic.

Each year, Americans drive millions of miles and most of us never give much thought to our tires.

As Arkansans drive millions of miles each year and the number of personal and commercial vehicles on Arkansas roadways increase, it is not surprising that a large number of car accidents occur in Arkansas every day.

Not exact matches

The Waymo fleet of self - driving cars has driven three million autonomous miles and simulated over one billion miles.

Google for example, said recently that its driverless cars have completed over 2 million miles of autonomous driving.

But the real 500 - pound gorilla in this room is Tesla, whose vehicles have have logged 222 million miles in Autopilot mode, and gathered more than 1.3 billion miles worth of driving data.

CTO Chris Urmson announced his departure on Medium: «Now, 1.8 million miles of autonomous driving later, I've decided the time is right to step down and find my next adventure.»

Companies like Waymo, General Motors, and Uber have been testing self - driving cars for years over millions of miles.

The cars have driven over 1.8 million miles in autonomous mode as of July.

And while Porat bragged about the Google self - driving car project's recent milestone of 2 million miles driven, the company still hasn't brought the cars to market, despite being one of the first companies to embark on the project more than seven years ago.

It recently hit the two million mile mark of miles driven.

Before activating the features enabled by the new hardware, we will further calibrate the new sensor suite using millions of miles of real - world driving to ensure significant improvements to safety and performance.

We've reached 3 million miles of self - driving on public roads!

At the time of the incident, Tesla said that it was the first crash involving Autopilot in roughly 130 million miles of driving in which the technology was in control.

Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens of thousands of clients all over the world have banked more than 100 million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate accident of Brown.

In the winter, the men «went to the bush» for long months in rough company and risky work, until the great spring drive when the Ottawa River, more than a mile wide, was filled with the booms of millions of logs heading south to feed an insatiable market for wood.

Perhaps the Illinois farmers who drove into the towns from miles around to hear the Lincoln - Douglas debates were a different kind of people from the millions in their living rooms in front of the television screen.

They also threaten Homo sapiens, that poor creature who lately has begun driving six miles out of his way to buy phosphate - free laundry soap, all the while turning his back on poisoning programs that are directly and specifically contaminating millions of acres of his country.

This is equivalent to nearly 7000 million miles driven by an average passenger vehicle or 1.03 million tons of waste sent to landfill sites.

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile - high buildings.

After inspiring millions of people worldwide with its successful landing in a crater on the Red Planet on Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (Aug. 6, 2012, EDT), Curiosity has provided more than 190 gigabits of data; returned more than 36,700 full images and 35,000 thumbnail images; fired more than 75,000 laser shots to investigate the composition of targets; collected and analyzed sample material from two rocks; and driven more than one mile (1.6 kilometers).

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

Our sun turns 600 million tons of hydrogen into helium every second, creating the heat and light that bathe our planet 93 million miles away, driving air currents, feeding plants and tanning skin.

A fleet of 100 cars would have to drive 275 million miles without failure — approximately 12.5 years of round - the - clock driving at 25 miles per hour — to meet the safety standards of today's vehicles in terms of deaths.

In this way, just 1,000 miles of testing can yield the equivalent of 300,000 to 100 million miles of real - world driving.

A crash that results in a fatality occurs only once in every 100 million miles of driving.

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour.

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Backing up those findings, an AAA Travel survey found that 46.9 million Americans will drive at least 50 miles from home over Thanksgiving this year, the highest figure since 2007 and an increase of 0.6 percent since last year.

While this has made the news for all the wrong reasons in recent months, it's undoubtedly a sophisticated setup and is theoretically improving by the day, thanks to fleet learning — data acquired from the 3 million miles per day driven by the tens of thousands of Teslas all around the world.

His first rolled up almost a quarter - million miles, and his second, tragically, was demolished when it fell off the back of a transporter before he ever had a chance to drive it.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood announced today the approval of $ 150 million in credit assistance to help California build the second phase of the Presidio Parkway, a new 1.6 - mile, six - lane roadway that will improve the connection between San Francisco and the Golden Gate Bridge and replace the existing Doyle Drive.

A 1989 Saab 900 SPG owned by Peter Gilbert of Wisconsin, was driven over a million miles, before being donated to The Wisconsin Automotive Museum.

One of the 1966 Volvo P1800 produced managed to reach 3 million driven miles.

The self - driving Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans are equipped with Waymo's hardware suite and are also running Waymo's self - driving software, which has been honed with more than 4 million miles of on - road testing, and billions of miles in simulation.

Autonomous vehicles would have to be driven hundreds of millions of miles and, under some scenarios, hundreds of billions of miles to create enough data to clearly demonstrate their safety, according to a new report from RAND, a non-profit research organization.

Engineers logged nearly 6 million miles of customer equivalent driving and experience on the vehicle, including trailer - towing tests in the Rocky Mountains, air conditioning validation in the summer heat of the Florida Keys, punishing drives through Death Valley at more than 120 degrees F. and a -43 degrees F. stint in Manitoba, Canada.

GM has accumulated 3.1 million miles of hydrogen fuel cell testing via Project Driveway, a 119 - vehicle fleet driven by more than 5,000 people in a multi-year fuel cell experience program.

If GM reaches its goal to sell 1.3 million light - duty fullsize pickups and SUVs, a savings of 28 million gallons of fuel at an average of 15,000 miles driven per year will result.

Our million - mile warranty, which is the most comprehensive of any exhaust supplier, means Borla will stand behind your performance exhaust product longer than you will be driving your car and that's a commitment you can depend on.

Millions of dogs and cats are stolen each year, including pets, and driven thousands of miles across China to be bludgeoned to death in front of each other.

Aquila Retreat feels a million miles from the rat race, yet is only a minute from the cafes of leafy Buderim, or just minutes drive to the sunny sand of Mooloolaba's famous north facing surf beach and Noosa.

Set on the banks of the Waikato River in the beautiful Bay of Plenty you will feel a million miles from anywhere yet you are just 30 minutes drive from both Rotorua and Taupo Airports.

Players have driven over 653 million miles, the equivalent of circling the Earth 49,223 times.

It is worth noting that a Tesla vehicle is over five times less likely to experience a fire than the average gasoline car and that there have been zero serious injuries or deaths for any reason ever, fire or otherwise, in a Model S. Over the course of more than 100 million miles driven in almost every possible terrain, weather and crash conditions, the Tesla Model S has consistently protected its driver and passengers, achieving the best safety track record of any car on the road.

The typical environmental benefit of a Philadelphia power company's wind energy program is the same as planting about 11 million trees or not driving 144 million miles.

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile - high buildings.

While Americans drive about 2.2 million - excuse me - 2.2 trillion miles a year, the vast majority of those trips are less than 10 miles.

NEWS FROM CALCARS TECHNOLOGY LEAD: RON GREMBAN continues to monitor and analyze the latest advances in battery technologies, and to promote the value of converting millions of the one billion vehicles now on the world's roads to plug in so they can drive some or all of their future miles on electricity.