Sentences with phrase «from our test car»

Rather than banning us from testing its cars and scratching us from its Christmas - card list, Mini reached out to us.

The base price is super, although I'd be hard - pressed to drop enough options from our test car to get it back down below $ 40,000.

While we have not yet had the opportunity to jump from the test car to a similar vehicle with the standard springs the changes do not appear to have affected the comfort of the ride adversely.

The black leather from the test car (optional, also including a sunlight reflection function) perfectly suits the aluminium on the dashboard.

The seven - inch infotainment screen is equally slick, while sound from our test car's 14 - speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system is second only to the RS 3's exhaust note (which could be a little louder to be honest).

The brakes, which feature redesigned hardware including four - piston front calipers, were meaty yet easily modulated, and turn - in from the new electric power steering rack was quick and accurate, albeit light on feedback from my test car's 245 / 35/19 summer tires.

Last year two Buick engineers, Bill Rietow and John Townsend, took a break from testing cars within legal speed limits on regular highw...

Looking at the Lamborghini Huracán LP610 - 4 it is clear the cameo covered prototype that has been captured over the last few weeks didn't hide any surprizes, still wouldn't mind seeing the special wheels from those test cars to make it as an option on the production Huracán.

Not exact matches

But that makes Uber no different from Google, GM, and Ford, all of which are testing self - driving cars in California — and got permits to do so.

A Time Magazine reporter who test drove the «Nano» earlier this month reported that while the car is easy to operate and comes with ample legroom, turning on the air conditioner noticeably sapped power from the tiny two - cylinder engine.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

Hertz shares were up 14 percent after the news that Apple is leasing cars from Hertz for autonomous testing.

On a sunny Saturday morning, I made my way up from Business Insider's suburban New Jersey road test center to Miller Motor Cars in Greenwich, Connecticut where Bugatti stored its two Chiron prototypes.

But experts have noted that, at least as far as the test is concerned, Apple's autonomous car seems to be built from off - the - shelf parts, including a lidar (light detection and ranging) unit from Velodyne Lidar, at least two radar units and several cameras.

The company removes self - driving cars from city streets after California regulators said Uber needed to obtain a permit to test the vehicles.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

The company needs time to build up its fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the vehicles smog tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.

It received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test the cars on public roads in September 2014.

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.

But technology is very much in Uber's DNA, from its app that revolutionized individual transportation worldwide, to its current testing of self - driving cars in Pittsburgh.

A disengagement is when the human driver testing the car has to take over from the automated system or when the system itself simply fails.

Things just went from catastrophic to apocalyptic as Volkswagen just admitted that the emission test cheating engine management software at the center of the Dieselgate controversy is installed in 11 million Volkswagen Group cars worldwide.

Facebook's revenue jumps 50 % in the first quarter, Amazon is testing delivery to cars, and more need - to - know news from the world of retail.

Dubai's RTA will test out self - driving cars which have been bought from Tesla.

Smartphones are getting some voice assistant competition from smart speakers such as ROAV Viva and Amazon is testing Echo Dots in cars.

(But while you puzzle on that one, people are still trying to understand what Trump was on about in comments from the same speech to donors where he described unfair Japanese trading «tests» that involved dropping bowling balls on the hoods of cars.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

And Uber also operates an autonomous test fleet in Pittsburgh, where it lured top computer - vision and robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon to help it transform car services from flex work to automation.

How could I find boxes, load boxes, shuttle boxes to and from my second story classroom to my small car, get the lesson plans finished, grade the 150 - 200 daily worksheets and quizzes (That's basically all the students did — worksheets, quizzes and tests — all day long.)

Can you remember what was going on during the car launches, or the headlines from the two pre-season tests in Barcelona?

As we've already seen from winter testing, these cars are damn fast.

Thankfully Brawn GP rose from the ashes of Honda after a last - minute takeover, but there was a rush to get the car to the first Barcelona test.

The new breed of Formula E cars have been testing in Valencia ahead of Season 4 and the series has put together a compilation video of each car pulling away from the pits.

What is there to get excited about in terms of coming back to drive an underpowered and unreliable car, having had no testing, and probably from the back of the grid?

He'll be back behind the wheel of a Ferrari F1 car at the Hungaroring for second in - season F1 test, which takes place from the 1 - 2 August.

He had a drive secured with Minardi for 1999 and was one of the pre-season favourites for the championship, but just before his first test with their new car he sensationally announced his retirement from F1 at the age of only 20.

Six days of pre-production testing have been approved, with each supplier using a maximum of two cars from entrants.

IndyCar has unveiled its new car for the 2018 season and we've now seen it on track for the first time, as well as hearing from the drivers testing it

A week after the launch the car had a quick straight - line test at a very wet airfield in Leeds (a far cry from the glamour and sunshine of F1's Barcelona tests!)

Williams has jumped the gun and beat its rivals to becoming the first team to reveal its 2017 F1 car, after getting glimpses of what's to come from teams at Pirelli's tyre tests.

Triple MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo recently had a test session at Silverstone in a 2014 car and Wolff would like to see more racers from other disciplines in Formula 1 cars.

This year's F1 car will be called the MCL32 and is set to be unveiled on the 24 February, before testing gets underway in Spain from the 27 February.

Apart from a bruised elbow Vettel was ok but the car was too damaged to finish the day of testing.

Unlike F1 though, the change to a turbo hasn't killed the sound, as you can hear in the glorious footage of from the car testing in the video.

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Following on from his GP3 test last month, where he returned to a single - seater for the first time, Kubica has now tried out a Formula E car.

Car launches now are pretty much all the same — they're usually either low - key events from the factory or simple photo shoots in the pit lane before testing.

«The car we have now is totally different from the spec we used during testing and we're still on a learning curve.

We lost a little bit of track time in the first 45 minutes of FP1 but had a very good run after that and got some good learning from the car, which was the most important thing after winter testing.