Sentences with phrase «from oncoming drivers»

You still need to have your wits about you to avoid blinding cyclists and pedestrians, but with other traffic it seems to work pretty faultlessly as we didn't once encounter an angry flash from oncoming drivers.

Not exact matches

The idea is that an elongated screen with stretch along the nose of the car, protecting the driver from oncoming object whilst also preserving the open - cockpit nature of the cars in a less hideous way than the Halo did.

According to an eyewitness, the Sprinter bus, from the Mankessim lane, was overtaking other cars when the driver realized he was going to collide with oncoming cars.

Or the consequences can be disastrous, as when a narrow focus prevents a driver from noticing a light turning red or an oncoming train.

They run into a Southerner named Chris Mannix on the road, and three of them, along with their driver — a living prisoner and three dead bounties strapped to the roof — arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard.

The lane changing and blind spot assistance will apply the brakes to one rear wheel at a time to steer the car in order to keep the driver from drifting into other vehicles or oncoming lanes.

As finalists for Goodyear's North America Highway Hero Award, three professional truck drivers battled flames to pull victims to safety in separate accidents and another driver saved a mother and her baby from oncoming traffic as they lay on a wet and dark stretch of Florida's Turnpike.

It's likely that the Allspace will benefit from the same list of optional safety kit, too, with highlights including adaptive cruise control and LED headlights with Dynamic Light Assist — technology that allows full beam to be on permanently without dazzling oncoming drivers.

The radar - based driver assistance systems, such as oncoming traffic mitigation, BLIS with steering assist and city safety with cross-traffic alert for junctions, from the larger SUV will also feature on the XC60.

It also features plenty of optional equipment, such as a system that alerts drivers when the vehicle is straying from its lane, and automatic high beam dimming to protect the eyes of drivers in oncoming traffic.

This camera - based system can recognize oncoming vehicles or vehicles ahead with their lights on, and then softly transitions from high - beam to low beam to create the best possible lighting conditions without dazzling other drivers.

• Cross-traffic alert, enabled by BLIS, senses and warns the driver of oncoming traffic from either direction when the Taurus is backing out of a driveway or parking space

Glare from low beams for oncoming drivers is also measured in each scenario.

Available new systems include Oncoming Lane Mitigation which will provide steering input to mitigate head - on collisions, and Blind Spot Information System, which now uses Steer Assist functionality to prevent drivers from changing lanes into other vehicles.

The V8 comes standard with Kia's first Rear Cross Traffic Alert (RCTA) system, which provides an audible warning to the driver if oncoming cross traffic is detected from the rear while the K900 is in Reverse.

TSS also includes Automatic High Beams, which detect oncoming and proceeding traffic and automatically switch between headlight high and low beams, maintaining increased visibility when possible while refraining from blinding other drivers.

Glare from low beams for oncoming drivers also is measured.

Some motorists such as Dean Winton have successfully challenged «flashing your lights» tickets in court by arguing that this statute is clearly «aimed at stopping motorists from operating flashing lights to imply they're driving official or emergency vehicles» — not at people who flash their headlights to warn of a speed trap (or, I would imagine, to inform an oncoming driver that his high beams are on).

Pedestrians are especially susceptible to serious injuries or death from drunk drivers on the road because they have zero protection from oncoming vehicles.

This type of crash is quite common at intersections where one driver is lawfully stopped at a light and another one barrels into the first from behind, knocking him or her into oncoming traffic.