Sentences with phrase «force of a moving car»

Cyclist's helmets and other safety gear, no matter how sophisticated, are simply no match for the massive weight and force of a moving car or truck.

Not exact matches

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - A top German court ruled on Tuesday in favor of allowing major cities to ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars, a move set to hit the value of 12 million vehicles in Europe's largest car market and probably force carmakers to pay for costly modifications.

LEIPZIG, Germany, Feb 27 - German cities can ban the most heavily polluting diesel cars from their streets, a court ruled on Tuesday, a move likely to be mirrored in other parts of Europe and to force automakers to pay to improve exhaust systems or switch to cleaner vehicles.

Using two installation belts could also concentrate more crash force on a small area of the car seat, which could cause it to move or fail in ways we can't easily predict.

«Through this move, the chancellor will lose about # 1bn a year in duty and VAT income, but tens of thousands of people will be saved from being forced to give up their cars against a backdrop of generally rising running costs.»

As the massive cyclone made landfall, destructive winds tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexicon — Hurricane Patricia, one of the most powerful storms on record, struck Mexico's Pacific coast on Friday with destructive winds that tore down trees, moved cars and forced thousands of people to flee homes and beachfront resorts.

Side forces come into play whenever wind flows across an elongated object — like when you stick your arm out the side of a moving car.

The main reason for this is that frictional forces slow down the motion of surfaces in contact: think of the moving parts in a car engine.

Poverty in The Florida Project never looks fun, it looks brutal and crushingly sad (the unseen face of the boy forced to give away all his toys because they don't fit in his father's car when they're moving away).

My understand standing is horsepower (which is 33,000 ft - lb) is the amount of work your car can do in a minute so if my car have a max of 690 horsepower, that's how much force my car can lift and keep moving, and torque is the same but with how much force is needed to get all the compounds moving inside the engine so if its 400 torque then that's how much force is needed to get the vehicle moving and after it moves the horsepower pick up.

In an attempt to provide ease of movement and relieve kinetic forces from the driver's back, both the seat and the backrest move and flow with the movement of the car.

The nixing of the Scion brand forced the sports car's move to the parent Toyota brand, and coincides with a styling refresh highlighted by new bumpers front and rear.

With regular gasoline averaging about $ 3.50 in gallon in Florida — and with no obvious market forces in sight that would drop the price much in the near future — new - car customers may be revising plans for their next purchase, moving «gets good mileage» to the top of the list of preferences.

There is none of that dual - clutch nonsense when you are selecting drive or reverse are forced to wait while the DCT takes its own sweet time to figure out how to do what torque converter transmissions have done for the better part of a century — make the car move.

Yet if you've got the bankroll, the Panamera Turbo and Turbo S boast laugh - inducing levels of power and the resolute traction of all - wheel drive to get you moving with a tenacity bettered only by exotic sports cars or possibly something offered up by the United States Air Force.

But the Austrian, who has overseen the development of the iconic rear - engined sports car since 2001 and worked on it since joining Porsche in 1983, says he is now at peace with the move from natural aspiration to forced induction that will soon encompass almost the entire 911 range, bar the hard - core GT3s.

And a larger dog would move through the car with the force of a baby elephant.

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Despite some impressive local advances, the global loss of momentum in expanding food production is forcing us to think more seriously about reducing demand by stabilizing population, moving down the food chain, and reducing the use of grain to fuel cars.

In any event, your brain continues to move when your car comes to a sudden stop following a collision and is forced against the interior of your skull resulting in a contusion and possible hemorrhaging, or bleeding.

The force of rapidly moving your head back and forth in a rear - end car accident, for example, can cause the brain to hit the inside of the skull and suffer an injury.

Most people don't know that you do not need to hit your head or lose consciousness in order to suffer a concussion or brain injury; merely the force of your head quickly moving back and forth in a car accident, for example, can cause your brain hit the inside of your skull and suffer an injury.

Again, Thomas was one of the drivers behind the move, chairing the initial task force that directed CAR's MLS effort, Singer says.