Sentences with phrase «highway driving in this car»

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As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

For example, billboards placed along a highway can only be viewed for a short time as people drive by in their cars.

Bhavesh Patel, 39, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a witness saw him sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the driver's seat empty, as it drove along the famous M1 highway on May 21 of last year.

Ever been stuck in congestion on the highway, only to realize that the backup is due to one car driving slowly in the left lane and blocking all the traffic?

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).

I certainly didn't, even though the TLX A-Spec includes both a Sport and a Sport Plus driving mode, in additional to Normal and Econ (the last helping the car make good on its 20 mpg city / 29 highway / 23 combined fuel - economy ratings).

The company's proposed Highway Drive Assist System automatically keeps cars in the correct lane and maintains an appropriate distance between vehicles, while the Autonomous Emergency Stop System will sense if the driver is debilitated and then maneuver the car to the shoulder of the road to stop.

In October, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, said it was looking for input on how to remove regulatory roadblocks to self - driving cars.

CBC is reporting that 35 - year old MLA Manmeet Bhullar has been killed in a car crash on the Queen Elizabeth II Highway while driving from Calgary to Edmonton.

Cars drive on a highway next to downed power line poles by Hurricane Maria in Vega Alta, Puerto Rico on October 1, 2017.

God did too, for in that span of an hour and a half, 15 - 20 people got saved, born again in their cars as we drove down the highway.

This time, though, my drive down Highway 99 was halted when a van plowed into the back of my car in stopped traffic just outside of Madera.

One of the joys of driving is cruising down the highway with a car in our full control.

I was coming onto the highway from the on - ramp and some jack - ass woman on her cell phone driving a red sporty car couldn't be bothered to slow down or change lanes to let me in.

For the next year, New York state will allow testing of self - driving cars on public highways thanks to a measure in this year's state budget.

«They did not pass a long term Highway Trust Fund that invests in our roads and bridges which creates safer driving conditions for the American people everyday and to help our hardworking families reduce the costs of car repairs and maintenance costs,» Dwire said.

Tech - savvy drivers in the US with, say, a recent - model Toyota, can buy hardware from Comma.ai's website — a dashboard camera, an interface to the car's electronic systems — and combine it with the firm's open - source software, openpilot, to create a car that can automatically control acceleration, braking and power - steering systems in specific circumstances, such as driving on a highway.

Visitors to the Black Sea Gardens would drive from inland highways and leave their cars in underground parking lots at the entrance to each village.

(Caveat: That impressive figure, pulled from a study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, excludes intoxicated drivers and assumes that everyone on the road is driving a talking car, that every intersection and stop sign in America can join in the conversation, and that the auto industry agrees on standardized equipment for all this chatter.)

At ITS America's 2014 World Congress last week in Detroit, Honda Motor Co. showcased its next generation of ITS technologies, including short - range communication between vehicles and pedestrians» or bicycle riders» cellphones, fully automatic highway driving and V2V «virtual tow» — a blend of connected and automatic car technology that enables a driver to request assistance and then virtually link up with and trail another vehicle.

Actually, MacCready predicts that the big market in the coming decade or two may not be so much for all - electric cars as for hybrid cars designed to run on batteries in pollution - choked cities and on gasoline — or natural gas, or ethanol, or hydrogen, or some other range - extending fuel — on long highway trips (though the way Americans drive now, 90 percent of all car trips fall within Impact's 120 - mile range).

Now that I've been driving the lovely Highway 1 for a couple weeks, I no longer panic when I nearly get hit by a car (several times in a 5 minute drive) or see someone driving down the wrong lane at an intersection or that left turns no longer exist (and when they do, some one is bound to turn left on a red light) or when someone blares their horn at me because I am not driving like a crazy person.

Each year, an every - man - for - himself race is staged in the desert, with fat - cat motorists driving the custom cars at supersonic speed up and down the supposedly deserted highway.

Audiences have been known to visibly gasp in one of the opening scenes featuring Lady Bird's mother driving and bickering with her daughter, who abruptly opens the car door in the middle of a highway and throws herself out.

Built in southern California by Metalcrafters, the Gaffolio family enterprise reknowned for its significant contributions to some of Chrysler's best concepts in the past, the Ciel makes lavish use of carbon - fiber panels, and is a real car, driven under its own power not only for films, but to run it up the famous California Highway 1 south of Monterey.

Some people want small cars but aren't willing to move down to a B - segment vehicle that offers virtually no difference in fuel economy but requires a big sacrifice in power and generally a sacrifice in comfort on long highway drives.

As a segment, sporty front - drive cars tend to bear some of these characteristics, but competitors from the Forte Koup to the Volkswagen Golf do a better job damping out the worst disruptions and settling in on the highway.

We set out to find the cheapest cars for sale that achieve 40 mpg in EPA testing (which measures highway, city, and combined driving), and were surprised to find exactly ten 40 - mpg cars that cost under $ 20,000.

The sluggishness doesn't pay off much in fuel efficiency: Lexus expects the IS 250 to attain 21/30/24 mpg (city / highway / combined), which matches the old car; all - wheel drive sacrifices 1 mpg overall.

It's because it's a sport people can relate to as these drivers are in street legal cars and they can be seen driving on public highways between the competitive sections of the rallies.

I need help finding why my car's air conditioning (2011 Ford Mustang v6) is only blowing cold air at idling and not while driving on the highway when it's 100 °F here in Nashville.

A drive in the standard C63 in the hills around Faro, Portugal, amply demonstrates the ease at which the car eats up twisting roads and highways alike.

Drives like a dream on the highway and has a great turning radius like a car in the city and for parking.

BMW revealed the car at the Detroit auto show in January, and now we've just driven it down the Pacific Coast Highway and at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

The car's trip computer showed an average of 30 + mpg in my mix of city and highway driving, achieved without the slightest effort on my part to maximize fuel economy.

After reviewing what @FredWilson wrote here last year, I figured that since 98 % of my driving is low speed, low rpm in the city, maybe taking the car for a high rpm drive on the highway for 15 minutes might burn off any carbon or sulfur that was interfering with the cat's performance.

Looking at these cars raises plenty of questions, so we got behind the wheel for a day of driving through cities, down highways, and over rural back roads in search of some understanding.

I asked that they keep it an additional day and continue to start drive it, because what happened with the car was definitely unusual, and my concern was I would be out somewhere and the car wouldn't start, or if some of the horror stories I heard were correct, I'd be traveling down the highway and the car would just stall out while I'm traveling in 65 mph traffic.

This performance is as estimated, and nothing to complain about, but there's no question this car's mileage in mixed driving is closer to the city figure than the highway one.

Confirming as much in a 2016 letter to Google, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it agreed with Google that its self - driving car will not have a «driver» in the traditional sense that vehicles have had drivers for the last hundred years or more.

The drive is so fluid from sharp turns at high speeds to highway cruising, you will forget you are in a car.

The Europeans» folly is clear, but to state the obvious, if the American people were monolithic, we wouldn't have started buying European cars in the first place; we'd still be driving the chrome - laden Detroit behemoths that once ruled the highways.

The car now comes standard with a 2.5 - liter inline - four engine good for 194 hp, which is estimated to return up to 22/28 mpg (city / highway) with front - wheel drive, thanks in part to a standard stop - start feature; the old Acadia managed only 17/24 mpg with its old standard V - 6 engine and front - wheel drive.

Both in everyday highway driving and on the track, the 2014 Buick Regal GS AWD remains a refined luxury car with all - weather capability.

Staffers groused that the 28 - mpg EPA highway figure, confirmed in our own road - trip experience, was pretty lame for a midsize car (a fact that was driven home when the 2014 Honda Accord shared time in our Four Seasons parking lot with the 460 - hp Chevrolet Corvette, with its 29 - mpg highway rating).

The car is quick, and yet it achieves respectable fuel economy estimates at 18 mpg in the city, 25 mpg on the highway and 20 mpg in combined driving.

2016 Jeep Renegade Black Latitude FACTORY CERTIFIED, LOW MILES, ONLY 11K MILES 2.4 L I4 MultiAir 9 - Speed 948TE Automatic FWD 31/22 Highway / City MPG Chrysler Group Certified Pre-Owned Details: * Vehicle History * Transferable Warranty * Powertrain Limited Warranty: 84 Month / 100, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) from original in - service date * Limited Warranty: 3 Month / 3, 000 Mile (whichever comes first) after new car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Roadside Assistance * Warranty Deductible: $ 100 * Includes First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and Trip Interruption Benefits * 125 Point Inspection Awards: * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best SUVs Under $ 25,000 * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best All - Wheel Drive Vehicles Under $ 25,car warranty expires or from certified purchase date * Roadside Assistance * Warranty Deductible: $ 100 * Includes First Day Rental, Car Rental Allowance, and Trip Interruption Benefits * 125 Point Inspection Awards: * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best SUVs Under $ 25,000 * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best All - Wheel Drive Vehicles Under $ 25,Car Rental Allowance, and Trip Interruption Benefits * 125 Point Inspection Awards: * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best SUVs Under $ 25,000 * 2016 KBB.com 10 Best All - Wheel Drive Vehicles Under $ 25,000

The manual transmission variant of this impressive Honda Civic sedan is said to be generating a healthy mileage of approximately 10.8 Kmpl on the city roads, while the mileage considerably increases on the highways, where it apparently gives 14.8 Kmpl, when driven under standard conditions, which is said to make this stylish sedan, one of the most fuel efficient car in its segment.

In highway traffic, the car effectively drives itself, making a tough commute much more tolerable.