Sentences with phrase «for road driving»

The latest Corvette Grand Sport is the sports car experience devoured in moderation: Comfortable for road driving, but not race - car stiff when on the track.

It can be adjusted through three positions, one for road driving and two others that can be selected according to individual preference on the track.

For instance, for road driving, the suspension stiffens more as your speed increases, and when cornering the outside dampers will stiffen to reduce body roll.

Rather, our goal for the McLaren P1 ™ is for it to be the fastest - ever production car on a racing circuit, a much more important technical statement and more relevant for road driving.

I'd say this one is 90 per cent there for road driving but places too high a premium on outright grip.

But there is a full single piece screen in development that will mean no lid is needed for road driving.

That's perfect for track driving, but not so hospitable for road driving.

The presence of doors and windows will make the KTM X-Bow a more useful tool for road driving, rather than simply a fair - weather toy best used for track days.

For a follow - up to our first drive of the 2017 Honda Civic Type R, Honda chose some beautiful roads near Seattle for road driving — and Ridge Motorsports Park for track time.

But for road driving I would drop the tyres down to something slightly less aggressive.

Not exact matches

On the downside, he noted the car failed to start for 10 minutes, and that it drove particularly close to cars parked on the side of the road.

The constraints placed on relaxation by a «time - poor» workforce and the search for a market niche drove massage therapist Meg Watson out of her clinic and on the road.

If anything the potential for disruption is greater in Alberta, where people think nothing of driving three hours each way for a weekend jaunt in the mountains and where Calgary and Edmonton are putting the finishing touches on ring roads that link far - flung suburbs and quicken the commutes from semi-rural acreages.

While the launch of a new driving safety app, for example, might not grab readers, the fact that nearly 1.3 million people die in road crashes each year, and that more than 20 million are permanently injured, will.

Within four years, many car companies — Tesla, Uber, and Google's Waymo, along with traditional firms like Toyota and GM — expect to offer autonomous cars that can completely take on the driving task while also monitoring the road for any obstacles under specific traffic and weather conditions.

I drove to the island in this Volvo XC60, relying on the traction control (it has both an AWD mode and one for off - roading that raises the height of the vehicle), ample storage (the seats fold down easily), and smooth ride.

Today, the future for autonomous vehicles is bright, and it is expected that there will be millions of self - driving cars on the road by 2035, creating a multi-billion dollar market.

According to Ford, «Normal» is for everyday driving; «Wet» for bad weather; «Sport» for winding public roads; «Track,» is for, well, the track; and «V - Max» is for the drag strip.

Yet, it's «exciting» for the engineers on the project to know what's left to do now that the self - driving car has proven that it can drive on public roads.

I'm not really certain at the moment whether I think that smart cars or smart roads (like they're building in Atlanta) are the best bet (see Why Smart Cars Are Stupid), but, take my word for it, within three years, some of us won't have to drive ourselves anywhere.

Baidu — alongside other companies like Google (googl) and General Motors (gm)-- is also actively encouraging a push for better coordination between autonomous vehicle manufacturers and the U.S. government, saying that it's necessary to make small changes to existing infrastructure and ease regulatory obstacles in order to get self - driving cars on the road.

For other workers like salespeople and inspectors, who spend many hours on the road, but whose primary job is not driving, AI could make them far more productive.

In its findings on Tuesday, the NTSB said the self - driving system's «operational design» was a contributing factor to the 2016 crash because it allows drivers to avoid steering or watching the road for lengthy periods of time that were «inconsistent» with warnings from Tesla.

The black leather seats in our test car felt soft to the touch and offered more than adequate bolstering for both leisurely jaunts down the highway and dynamic drives on twisty country roads.

The 2018 Nissan Rogue, which I also tested recently, costs just $ 24,800 and is remarkably similar in terms of what you can load in the back, the overall feel on the road at least in terms of wind noise (a crossover is literally a cross between a full - size SUV and a car, but tends to drive more like an SUV), and even the fuel economy (around 33 highway for the Rogue, 28 highway for the Stelvio).

However, while Samsung has licenses for autonomous driving on - road testing in South Korea and California, the FT reports that the company does not plan to manufacture the cars itself.

With more cars on the road, energy consumption and C02 emissions will drive demand for even more efficiencies and change how cars are made.

The drive lasted only a few minutes and lacked the physical sensation of road bumps, for example, so it's difficult to say how smooth a car is in reality while driving down the road or how well the car handles.

There's a famous anecdote about Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad's thrifty ways: apparently, he drove the same 1993 Volvo sedan for 20 years, finally giving it up not to buy something a little more flash with his billions, but simply because it was no longer road - worthy.

John Namey, director of real estate for the 380 - unit Firehouse Subs in Jacksonville, Fla., says he goes into likely new trade areas and «drives the major and minor roads, looking where restaurant concentrations are.

Closer to home, right here in Brooklyn, this 1968 Volkswagen Squareback is the $ 300 - a-day classic I could most easily imagine driving (or even owning)-- a curvy station wagon for running errands or quick road trips upstate.

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

For Google's self - driving cars to operate, the company had to first map the road.

Jobs: At the Code Conference yesterday, venture investor Marc Andreessen argued that self - driving cars will actually create jobs, not kill them, just as cars led to jobs for road - pavers, as well as jobs related to the rise in restaurants, movie theaters, motels, and the suburbs more generally.

Euterpe Platritis and Chris Mewburn say beating donor fatigue and using profit for good were driving factors behind their social enterprise on Rokeby Road.

«We began working with Mayor Brown through our national partner, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and realized it was the perfect opportunity to use our technology to help take drunk drivers off the road,» Ana Mahony, general manager for Uber New Jersey, said in a statement.

Says Vaculik, expanding transport beyond traditional roads could help bypass trillions in estimated infrastructure costs, save consumers lost time driving, create more efficient networks between cities and even make way for a fleet of ridesharing options — Ubers and Lyfts in air.

Her death demonstrates that self - driving tech in its current form isn't ready for public roads.

We'll start seeing Google's self - driving cars being tested on roads from this summer, with the company hoping to have one ready for public release by 2020.

Jay Leno and racecar driver Jessi Combs take Chiron onto the open road for a test drive.

While these vehicles can still perform off - road, manufacturers say they are now designed to be driven on pavement as well, making them more suitable for use as an everyday vehicle.

And Jeep redesigned its Wrangler for the 2018 model year to make the iconic off - roader better for daily driving.

Though the arrival of the robot car promised a dramatic reduction in the 1.25 million road traffic deaths that occur around the globe each year, there was also the sneaking suspicion that someday, for some reason, a self - driving vehicle would cause a collision — perhaps because of a string of bad code, an unexpected equipment failure, or an impossible decision.

The final possibility for altering road usage is to make people pay for the problems they create by driving their cars.

The theory of induced demand holds that the pent - up demand for driving is so great that most new roads become clogged almost the instant they open.

Still for anyone who lives or works in Edmonton the key to a good quality of life is access to Anthony Henday Drive — the ring road that connects all corners of this rapidly growing Albertan city.

«I think the self - driving car has the opportunity to not only improve productivity for the people in the car, which will be a huge economic boost for those people; Not only has the opportunity to save lives — over a million people die worldwide in road deaths today caused by human drivers, and I think we can take that very close to zero, which is very good for both human welfare and for economic productivity — it's a very serious dent in productivity when people get killed; And then all the ancillary industries that end up getting built out.»

The Norwegians are even going for an electric ship and the Swedes are looking to put a fleet of self - driving electric cargo pods on their roads by 2021.

Many have credited the tor / onion site Silk Road as being a driving force for Bitcoin's success.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.