Sentences with phrase «faster than the driver»

By anticipating intended movement, the new technology can take actions, such as turning the steering wheel or slowing the car — 0.2 to 0.5 seconds faster than the driver.

ABS can change the brake pressure to each wheel, as required, faster than any driver could.

An anti-lock braking system (ABS) is standard, while Brake Assist applies full braking force in panic stop faster than a driver could.

In other words, a car is not going to move faster than the driver makes it move.

If the driver in front of you suddenly stops; you will need more distance to stop, especially if you are going faster than the driver in front of you.

This is the case because new cars depreciate quickly, meaning they lose value faster than drivers are able to pay off a loan or a lease.

Not exact matches

I clung to the shotgun seat while a self - driving Audi TT - S took corners far faster than most human drivers would dare, and Stanford professor Chris Gerdes, who runs the Stanford Dynamic Design Lab, sat at the wheel.

And if anyone, anywhere, ever builds a driver with vertical grooves, a ring of steel around the back or a concave U-shaped sole, without a licensing agreement with Antonious, they will find themselves in court faster than they can say Eureka!

But in the Indy 500 every single one of the drivers can realistically envision themselves as the winner, because there's so much more to it than just being fast (the last five winners all started from outside the top 10).

The car is lighter too, and the weight balance has been moved forwards at the request of the drivers, which should mean that the car is as fast as - if not faster - than the current spec cars.

The test went well, too, with Kubica managing 115 laps in total at the start of June and reportedly lapping faster than Renault test driver Sergey Sirotkin.

In FP1 the two Mercedes drivers were trading fastest times and before long they were already in the 1:13 s. Lewis Hamilton then put in a lap of 1:13.429, almost two tenths quicker than Daniel Ricciardo's pole position time of 1m 13.622 from 2016.

But Dan Gurney is one of those drivers for whom stats alone tell just a fraction of the story because he was so much more than just a really fast F1 driver.

More impressively, he'd shown himself to be as fast as (if not faster) than established drivers Tony Brooks and Phil Hill.

Though he was faster than the Benetton driver he took zero risks and was quite content to sit behind in order to make sure of the championship (especially as Hill had brilliantly recovered to third).

It is similar to inventing cars that can be driven too fast and then, when the speed causes accidents and deaths, rather than change the cars or retrain the drivers, we invent speed bumps.

«Distracted drivers on average reduced the speed of their vehicle faster and more abruptly than non-distracted drivers, exhibiting excess braking,» he said.

A team of Rutgers University computer engineers has shown that even without a GPS device or other location - sensing technology, a driver could reveal where he or she traveled with no more information than a starting location and a steady stream of data that shows how fast the person was driving.

Drivers going faster than average will exaggerate how slow other traffic is going; those going slower will exaggerate how fast others are going.

If there are lots of cars, that means on average there will be more drivers and more driver time spent in the slow - moving crammed lanes than in the fast - moving lanes.»

That being said, as Chris mentioned, diet is a major driver of microbiome configuration and so I think that there is enough reason to believe that specific foods «are better» for the microbiome than others: eating a high fiber diet with lots of fruits and vegetables, resistant starches such as those from seeds and nuts, and, in general, a diet that is closer to the one we evolved to eat, including foods that were available before agriculture and fast food restaurants came along.

Owing a debt to the Zen - like simplicity and nocturnal L.A. ambience of Walter Hill's The Driver — which, in turn, took a page from Jean - Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï — the film is little more than an exercise in style, but it's dazzling and mythic, a testament to the fundamental appeal of fast cars, dangerous men, and tension that squeezes like a hand to the throat.

THE VERDICT: Crime, romance, fast cars, hot tunes... slicker than your chrome hubcaps, Baby Driver is the summer's coolest movie.

Baby Driver — There was not a faster, more furious movie this year than Baby Driver.

So while the 911's outright pace is clear — evident with a lap time around Anglesey that's 2.5 sec faster than the R8 — on the road, on this day, the R8 is the drivers» choice.

The man with the fastest name ever, Max Venturi (Lambo's test driver) wasn't surprised that the SV was almost 4sec quicker than the standard car but the 1.21.3 lap is even more impressive when you consider the only cars ahead of it are the Gumpert Apollo (effectively a race car) and the super-lightweights.

A new autonomous Audi RS 7, dubbed «Robby,» recently lapped California's Sonoma Raceway in 2 minutes, 1 second — a time that Audi says is faster than a human driver managed at the helm of the RS 7.

So, what you are saying is that a car that can be driven faster than the 4C is worse, because it takes less driver skill to do so.

At Car & Driver's lightning lap the M2 was 3 to 7 seconds faster around VIR than any TT RS.

Saw one of these a few weeks ago, slipping and sliding and bouncing in the wet, spinning it's wheels, driver struggling to control it coming off a roundabout, no faster than the stock VW Golf R alongside it.

Given enough straight road, premium unleaded, and driver fortitude, the 2015 Bentley Continental GT Speed will run to 206 mph — 2 mph faster than the crude, 707 - hp Dodge Charger Hellcat.

In any case, the manual driver can always point to top speed: it's 1mph faster than a PDK GT3 at 198mph.

For example, the enhanced Infiniti Direct Adaptive Steering ™ system allows independent control of the car's tire angle and steering inputs, transmitting the driver's intentions to the wheels faster than a mechanical system.

My best friends say it feels like a Lamborghini should feel, while my girlfriend, who has a strange fantasy of eating a bowl of cereal in the driver's seat of a Countach, says, «The Huracan took all my childhood dreams of being in a Lamborghini and multiplied them by modern technology, the end result being faster and better looking than anything I could have imagined, leaving me with a bit of whiplash and a big ear - to - ear grin.»

The Jetta GLX is faster than the V - 6 powered Accord, Toyota Camry, Nissan Maxima, Chrysler Cirrus and Ford Contour, according to test - drive results in Car And Driver magazine.

Conequence: IF THIS WERE TO OCCUR, THE DRIVER WOULD NOTICE THAT THE ARROW IN THE INSTRUMENT PANEL WOULD FLASH FASTER THAN NORMAL WHEN THE TURN SIGNAL IS ACTIVATED.

You will get from A to B faster than 90 % of other drivers, but they may have more

The «Sensonic» clutch variant, (available on Turbo models only) provided a manual gear lever as in a standard manual transmission car, but omitted the clutch pedal in favor of electronics which could control the clutch faster than an average driver.

Aston Martin's best - selling model just got replaced by a brand new version that's faster, bolder and more driver - focused than any entry - level Aston before.

Exceptional As most people looking at reviews will be company car drivers, things you should know: It accelerates faster than most company cars (8 seconds, quite achievable) It is more economical than most company cars BIK is okay (good CO2 figures, but relatively expensive list) Standard equipment is odd, good specification in some ways, annoying in others (+ = PDC, auto lights / wipers, dual zone climate, iDrive, lowered 10 mm - = worst stereo ever, non-foldable rear seat, no storage, analogue iPod connector, 16 wheels look... well, just look at them) Standard suspension is merely adequate, weight transfer between fast sweeping bends is noticeable No LSD, so doesn't enjoy getting the back end out particularly If it is your own cash, buy a better spec version!

Because of the ability to maintain activation of the VTEC system all the way through hard acceleration, the Accord EX V6 6 - speed ran from 0 — 60 MPH in just 5.9 seconds according to Car and Driver, more than a second faster than the automatic version.

[2][5] Since alternate gear ratios can preselect [1][2][3][5] an odd gear on one gear shaft while the vehicle is being driven in an even gear [3](and vice versa), DCTs are the fastest - shifting road car transmission available and are even able to shift faster than a professional racing driver using a manual transmission.

Parking assist systems are spreading faster in the fleet than front crash prevention and other crash avoidance features, indicates a new report from HLDI examining how many vehicles are equipped with various driver assistance technologies.

For the first time the 911 GT3 now comes with a particularly sporting and dynamic version of PSM Porsche Stability Management supporting the driver in his reactions and thus allowing even the professional motorsport enthusiast to achieve faster lap times with PSM than without.

Professional stunt driver Terry Grant will once again man the wheels of the electric Leaf as it tries to complete the 1.16 - mile hill climb course faster than it did a year ago.

The control knob itself is quite large now and features a touchpad built into its face that allows the driver to draw letters with a fingertip when inputting addresses or search terms into the navigation system, which at times seems faster than inputting characters by twisting the knob and features really accurate recognition of my chicken scratch finger scrawls.

The 7 - speed S - tronic gearbox responds to the driver's inputs faster than ever, and accordingly, the new RS 5 now reaches 100km / h from rest in a blistering 4.5 seconds.

That adaptive suspension, which lacks driver - selectable settings, feels tuned for comfort, for soaking up potholes and other bruising bumps in the road, rather than keeping the car flat in a fast corner.

Peter Brock later recalled that after the 1985 James Hardie 1000, long time HDT driver and Brock's right - hand - man at the Special Vehicles operation John Harvey had remarked that their personal road cars (the SS Group A) were in fact faster and more reliable than the 1985 race cars.

Fast Audis have long been focused more on effortless speed than driver interaction, and the latest S3 sticks to this formula.