Sentences with phrase «greater driver engagement»
Hybrid SE models even get paddle shifters for greater driver engagement.
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Other groups have also put forth proposals on self - driving cars, including requiring the vehicles and even semi-automated systems to meet performance targets, greater transparency and data from makers and operators of the vehicles, increased regulatory oversight, and better monitoring of and engagement with human drivers.
Electronics are great at sensing the limits of cornering grip these days, but the trick apparently lies in timing their engagement, which is something we've also heard from ALMS drivers who have raced the Porsche 911 GT3 R Hybrid and SRT Viper GTS - R.
It's been a long four years coming, but the i8 Roadster brings open - top cruising to the i8's bag of tricks, which otherwise includes making a three - cylinder turbocharged 1.5 - liter engine sound great (perhaps the greatest sorcery of all), and yet at the same time delivering an all - electric mode that brooks no gimmickry, great handling, and surprising driver engagement given the 28 mpg combined rating and 76 mpge rating when in electric - only mode — a level of efficiency typically reserved for numb, coddling commute - boxes.
Created in response to customer demand for an edgier version of the McLaren MP4 - 12C offering greater levels of driver engagement, the 650S runs a more heavily tuned version of McLaren's twin - turbocharged 3.8 - liter V8 direct - injection engine producing a claimed 25 hp more than the variant used by standard sibling for a total of 641 hp (as its name suggests 650 ps — metric hp).
For decades, the GTI has offered enthusiasts driving engagement with the reliability and practicality that make a great daily driver.
That's great, but if Nissan had wanted to impress us, it would have given the Maxima's chassis the chops to challenge the BMW's level of driver engagement, even as the latest version of that car is less - entertaining than it used to be.
But the engineering has now been fine - tuned for even greater levels of driver engagement.