Sentences with phrase «driving work vehicle»

Dad was driving a work vehicle in the...

A state's laws of owner liability will apply within the context of employment, and it may thereby be possible to hold an employer liable for injuries caused by an employee who is driving a work vehicle.

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Autonomously - driving vehicles could help give ride - sharing companies access to customers they otherwise couldn't reach — without Lyft or Uber having to worry about drivers getting enough work to make it worth their while.

The lab's primary focus is working on ways to use artificial intelligence for applications in its products today — or the near future — and not just a moonshot like self - driving vehicles that would be ready years from now.

The company is also working to strike a deal with a major car manufacturer (which Musk declines to name) to become a supplier of chassis and drive trains for a mass - market electric vehicle.

Aurora has been working to integrate its self - driving system into VW's vehicle platforms.

The cars, which are equipped with the same software used in Google's previous generation of self - driving Lexus vehicles, are designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals.

Cruise wants to own its self - driving technology and make it work primarily in GM vehicles, managing the experience, the data gathered, and cutting out any middlemen.

Waymo is adding 100 of these self - driving minivans to its fleet, as part of a collaboration announced in May with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles — the first time the tech company has worked directly with an automaker to create its autonomous vehicles.

After installing GPS devices in the company's vehicles, the client discovered that employees were instead pocketing the cash and driving to and from the work site every day, doubling the mileage and gas costs for the company's vehicles.

Originally intended to work in conjunction with the local and state authorities, it allowed trained individuals to casually drive the roads while recording the traffic around them with video cameras specially designed to be able to see in all directions around the vehicle.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

Between September 1, 2015 and March 22, 2016: Levandowski accessed 347 files on his personal devices that included proprietary information about his work on Google's self - driving car project that included «confidential presentations regarding the self - driving car and its marketing and business plans; videos of features and test drives of the self - driving car; pictures of the self - driving car and multiple components; notes pertaining to plans for the self - driving car; diagrams of vehicle components marked confidential; system files; software files; and code regarding the self - driving car.»

According to Uber, its self - driving Volvos fall short of the DMV's classification of an autonomous vehicle, since they don't work without a person behind the wheel.

One of the first projects would support Ontario's autonomous driving pilot as well as BlackBerry QNX's work with the University of Waterloo, PolySync, and Renesas Electronics to build an autonomous concept vehicle.

He's not alone: a just - released survey of Uber drivers found that 57 % have bought, leased, or made substantial investments in vehicles to drive for Uber, but only 23 % see working for Uber as a stable source of income.

Google just hired a man who's worked in the automotive industry for 25 years, John Krafcik, to lead the company's self - driving vehicle project as Google Auto's CEO.

Google's parent firm Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been working to develop autonomous vehicles on its own for years, but the company's head of its self - driving car project John Krafcik said the firm has reached a point at which more partnerships would be beneficial to the project's...

Otto, which is the brainchild of two senior self - driving car engineers who used to work for Google, builds kits that can turn existing transportation vehicles into autonomous trucks.

Given the amount of data Uber will collect as a result of offering multiple ways of getting around town, the company plans to work with Washington, D.C.'s departments of transportation and Department of For - Hire vehicles, as well as SharedStreets, a nonprofit driven project that aims to facilitate data sharing around transportation in cities.

Founded by three of the world's leaders in the self - driving vehicle industry, Aurora works at the intersection of rigorous engineering and applied machine learning.

Speaking of hours of service, a driver in the EU operating a vehicle that weigh at least 12 tons is only allowed to drive nine hours a day or 56 hours in a week, and they need to take a 45 minute break after 4.5 hours of work, and they need to rest for 11 hours every day.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

My mother works for the welfare department in another state and when visiting her I've witnessed several people actually driving brand new vehicles with stickers on them that say «Welfare Cadillac» or «Hood Rich».

He's never driven it more than 10 - 15 miles a day, to and from work, so it served it's purpose in that regard but I didn't consider it to be a safe or reliable vehicle.

Like the Warthogs, PRUSA is mission - driven working primarily with under - served children and youth using rugby as a vehicle to achieve long - term wellness and success.

The commission is looking for entries covering how existing infrastructure can be adapted, how roads shared by driverless and driven vehicles can work, and how these changes can be introduced alongside charging networks for new electric cars.

A mechanic can work on a car that is not registered; however, a vehicle that is not properly registered can not be legally driven on New York's roadways.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

The «drunk guns» law would work much like the state's drunk driving laws, which make it illegal to drive a vehicle if your blood - alcohol level is above.08 percent.

Essentially they could be passenger electric - drive vehicles, plug - in vehicles, utility work vehicles, off - the - road vehicles, depending on the municipal electric system's needs.»

«While there is still work to be done in driving to completion of the vehicle development program,» Whitesides said, «the dedication event is an opportunity for us to recognize all the people in New Mexico and around the world who have worked so hard to turn a patch of ranch land into the world's first commercial spaceport.»

AC Propulsion, a San Dimas, Calif., maker of electric vehicle drive systems, discovered this when working with Tesla Motors.

Via Motors, a company backed by former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, unveiled four extended - range electric work vehicles at NAIAS that it says can get more than 100 mpg in regular driving conditions.

While carmakers are developing more economical com - bustion engines and alternative drive systems, research establishments and companies are working on making more efficient use of vehicles.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA are one step ahead: They are dedicated to automated driving and are working on the vehicles of tomorrow, which can drive through traffic without human assistance.

Like other major automakers, Audi (and its parent Volkswagen Group) is working on meeting its medium - term regulatory requirements (e.g., in the 2020 timeframe) by reducing the average fuel consumption of its new vehicles using a combination of three primary measures: optimizing its combustion engines for greater efficiency; developing alternative drive... Read more →

«The spacecraft worked perfectly, which is always nice when you're driving a vehicle with 1.7 billion miles on the odometer,» said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager from JPL.

The one exception is a basic heat diffuser I use in the car since larger diffusers are not practical while driving, and it works decently well in a small space like a vehicle (and is much better than car air fresheners).

drink very rarely... work two jobs... drive my own vehicle..

I worked my way through the vehicle inventory, driving around to my flying lessons and the PV library and my girlfriend, who was unencumbered by American morality and came from a country with an age of consent of 14.

Now Willis is 62, and while he continues to find regular work (10 film credits over the last three years), he is no longer one of the biggest movie stars in the world — but he rarely if ever phones it in, even when the vehicle he's driving is a low - rent knockoff.

In some vehicles the hand brake operates on a drive shaft which means both wheels on that axle need to be on the ground for it to work, lifting one would allow an open differential to rotate.

Steve Austin was a pleasure working with and did not want to take me on a test drive in a vehicle unless he knew I had a chance of scoring, so not to get my hopes up.

I worked in the auto industry and understand a vehicle just sitting can lose pressure, but I still do not find a warning light on acceptable to test drive.

As you have since driven the vehicle then the brakes should be working fine otherwise you would have noticed.

Even the all - wheel - drive system does great work in a performance - style vehicle like this because it biases power delivery completely to the rear wheels until wheel slip is detected, then its famously quick - responding, electro - magnetic, central clutch pack diverts power to the front wheels.

I don't believe I would have lost control of the vehicle without electronic stability control, but the system worked incredibly well and made the drive much more relaxed.

I live in Ohio, found my new 2014 Copperhead Pearl Rubicon unlimited online on Saturday morning - by Monday, Mark Hester and Shannon Guest had worked... out all the details of transaction AND made provisions to have the vehicle driven to me from their dealership in IL directly to me the NEXT DAY - Tuesday!!!

I have worked at dealerships and have had some high end vehicles serviced and I must say I get treated as if I drove into a Bentley dealership (minus the shoe shine).