Sentences with phrase «equivalent of driving»

Taking your eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds while driving at 55mph to send a text is the equivalent of driving through an entire football field blindfolded.

As such, taking no precautions to address those risks is the equivalent of driving without a seatbelt, never locking one's doors or running with scissors.

In 2006, the transportation industry logged 432.9 billion miles - the equivalent of driving from the Earth to the sun and back over 2,000 times.

This is the equivalent of driving blindfolded down the length of a football field at 55 miles - per - hour.

The full struggle with that little voice in my head and then the conversations with my daughter can't really be captured in this space, but here are a few insights: 1) According to the carbon calculators that I looked at, for the two of us, the carbon emissions of traveling to Japan were the equivalent of driving my car 24,000 miles.

Sending and receiving email makes up a full percent of a relatively green person's annual carbon emissions, the equivalent of driving 200 miles.

Pumpkin pie spice is a melange of spices that instantly evokes the taste of fall: it's the flavor equivalent of driving along a stretch of fiery fall foliage, apple picking at an orchard, the crisp air as you pull a fuzzy sweater over your head.

Neglecting your pre-workout meal is the sport equivalent of driving on an empty gas tank while wishing for the best.

That's the equivalent of driving from LA to New York three times.

Expecting our liver, kidneys, digestive tract, respiratory system, lymphatic system, and skin to do their work flawlessly for 99 years, despite thousands of times» more exposure than they were designed to handle, is the equivalent of driving your car through the 1930's Dust Bowl for years, without changing your air filter or oil filter.

Operating the grid in this way is the electrical equivalent of driving with a spare tire in the trunk.

In the legislative equivalent of driving a stake through the heart of a zombie, Rep. Brian Higgins proposed a bill that would bar the federal government from ever charging an entry fee at the nation's land border crossings.

The reduction in greenhouse gas emissions was the equivalent of driving a car around the world over 14,000 times.

The first, Mark Bittman's Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating, focuses on the effect industrial meat production has on the environment («In terms of energy consumption, serving a typical family - of - four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home»).

One case study of a single cacao plantation estimated that throughout its lifetime, the plantation would produce 660,000 tons of carbon dioxide, the equivalent of driving around the earth 58, 819 times.

Unless you are measuring between ONI neutral points (the midpoint of the roller coaster) playing the whole warming / cooling game during a strong El Nino / La Nina is the factual equivalent of a drive by shooting.

Not exact matches

Total produced 2.703 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe / d) in the first quarter, driven by ramp - ups and new acquisitions, up more than 5 percent compared to the same period in 2017, and above analysts» estimates of 2.663 million boe / d.

The three - wheeled car weighs about 1,200 pounds and features a single - cylinder 7 - hp engine that uses either diesel or ethanol and networked batteries to drive two electric motors, giving it the equivalent of 16 hp and a max speed of about 70 mph.

Driving an equivalent gas - powered car like the Mercedes S - Class S 500 results in emissions of approximately 200 g CO2 / km,» says Tesla.

So tell me my good fellow How someone is going to manage the equivalent of an 45 minute drive without a car or access to public transit (that would be about a 30 mile trip, so at least 10» ish hours walking for the average person or 3» ish hours on a bicycle if I recall base speeds correctly right)?

There is no shortage of companies vying to become the equivalent for self - driving cars of the Windows / Intel standard for PCs.

This is the equivalent of saying drinking and driving is not bad because some people manage to make it to their house without killing anyone in the process.

Well it seems like Ivan can relax, Michael Peroski has just solved all of our problems: Proceeding from ideology - driven inquiry entails starting from an answer: «Research on human embryonic stem cell should be forbidden because embryos are equivalent to human lives» and working....

As the planet warms, driven by Western excess and cascading Asian growth (China adds the equivalent of southern California's electric grid annually), life may become increasingly untenable.

The Beer, Wine and Spirits Producers» Commitments 2013 - 2017 include adding to packaging globally (except where similar information is already legally required, prohibited or already provided by voluntary agreements) a standard set of easily understood symbols or equivalent words to discourage (1) drinking and driving (2) consumption by those under - age and (3) consumption by pregnant women.

Basically agree... Walcott is footballs equivalent of greshams law... Bad money drives out good... though whether gnabry or Campbell were good enough is debatable... Still until the whippet leaves it will be difficult for arsenal to become an attacking threat and he remains thanks to the dictators deluded understanding of the game and the ramblings of his sycophantic followers ably represented by jam butty for arsenal

One of the main points Wilks and Co. want to drive home here is how the meat industry grabbed hold of the market and popularized the idea that eating meat is equivalent to manhood.

Hence, while there are a lot of groups that monitor child abuse, it is fair to say that there is no child abuse equivalent of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

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.

We have: • normalized the domestic yield curve • issued the country's maiden 15 - year bond in April 2017 • improved external balances, driven by higher export earnings and lower imports • improved gross international reserves to US$ 7.2 billion, equivalent to 4.1 months of imports cover • improved primarybalanceto0.3 percent surplus in September 2017 against a deficit of 1.6 percent in September 2016 • received positive sovereign rating reviews from international ratings Agencies: Fitch, B / stable; Standard & Poor, B - / positive • successfully completed the 4th IMF / ECF program review, and • achieved positive developments in the oil & gas sector — favorable ITLOS ruling, and Sankofa producing 1st oil three months ahead of schedule.

AIM Photonics aims «to reduce energy consumption in data centers by supporting the replacement of copper wires with optical fiber; providing technology for optics in next generation (5G) wireless networks; helping develop the optical equivalent of radar which will facilitate the use of self - driving vehicles; and in partnership with the University of Rochester, the initiative is developing emerging optical sensors for medical and environmental applications,» the release explained.

The 35 - year - old was arrested for DUII, or driving under the influence of intoxicants — the Oregon equivalent of a DUI in New York.

The electric hybrid eVaro, developed in Canada by Future Vehicle Technologies of Maple Ridge, British Columbia, can accelerate to 60 miles per hour in around 5 seconds, and drives at least 165 miles on the equivalent of a US gallon of fuel.

And whereas many traditional motorcycles can achieve a respectable 50 miles per gallon at a driving cost of about seven cents per mile, an electric bike uses the energy equivalent of about 420 mpg at an operating cost of two to three cents per mile.

Robosimian drives slowly and carefully, then climbs out of the vehicle like a monkey, placing the equivalent of its hands on the ground to steady itself.

In less than a century, the Japanese toilet industry has achieved the equivalent of persuading a country that drove on the left in horse - drawn carriages to move to the right and, by the way, to drive a Ferrari instead.

Because they can't ethically subject youth to alcohol to study its effects, researchers use the developing brains of rats to understand the effects of «intermittent alcohol exposure» — the equivalent of drinking to a blood - alcohol level of.08 (the legal limit for driving while impaired) three or four nights a week.

Okin calculated that meat - eating by dogs and cats creates the equivalent of about 64 million tons of carbon dioxide a year, which has about the same climate impact as a year's worth of driving from 13.6 million cars.

Today the same $ 50 you might have paid for a 10 - pack of diskettes back in 1980 buys a 32 gigabyte thumb drive — the equivalent of a stack of floppies taller than the Golden Gate Bridge.

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

In a week the machine churns out the equivalent of six human genomes — enough raw data to fill 40 computer hard drives.

The least harmful commercial sandwich was egg mayonnaise with cress, with a carbon footprint of 740g, equivalent to driving 10 km (Sustainable Production and Consumption, doi.org/cjt5).

The rapid fall in sequencing prices may give genomics an equivalent of Moore's Law, which describes how the number of transistors on computer chips doubles every 18 months, steadily driving down the cost of computing power.

To demonstrate equivalent safety for self - driving cars in a statistically relevant way, the Googles and Audis of the world will need to cover billions of miles autonomously, unfeasible without mass adoption.

Think of two degrees Celsius as the legal drinking limit — equivalent to the 0.08 blood - alcohol level below which you might get away with driving home.

Instead, the information from all the telescopes — equivalent to the storage capacity of ten thousand laptops — has been recorded on 1,024 hard drives.

That means White's Alcubierre warp drive still requires the amount of energy equivalent to 1.5 million Hiroshimas — enough to wipe civilization off the Earth.

On a practical level, researchers need only construct one «generic» daisy drive strain per species — the equivalent of a multistage rocket that could be loaded with any desired payload.

Broccoli also produces the carbon emission equivalent of less than one mile driven per 4 - oz.

serving of pork, roughly about a size of a deck of cards, can be equivalent to the same carbon footprint of driving your car for three miles.