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You Can Negotiate Anything, probably the most entertaining of the books, skips any allusion to scholarship about the human tendency to defer to authority, instead citing an old Candid Camera episode in which a surprising number of highway drivers confronted with the sign «Delaware Closed» actually turned around.

The famous Chilkat River valley in our area, which borders the Haines highway leading into the Yukon, has a convention of eagles numbering into the thousands.

Taking as their theme «Leading the Way», a number of influential speakers will present case studies from across Great Britain and Ireland which will highlight innovation and leading edge developments across the broad spectrum of the highways and transportation agenda.

However, a number of positions and programs which were initially subject to cuts - such as mosquito control, Highway Department positions, and five positions with the Sheriff's Mounted Patrol - were left in the 2013 budget upon the basis that they were too valuable to eliminate.

Beekmantown was faulted in a state audit report released last month, which showed that the town's highway department had overspent for fuel by over $ 21,000 and the town clerk failed to adhere to a number of state standards.

Nevadans like Democratic Senator Harry Reid, who has doggedly opposed the Yucca Mountain repository, say it makes more sense to leave such waste where it is than to risk transporting it across the nation's public highways and rail system, during which accidents or even terrorist attacks could expose untold numbers of Americans to radioactivity.

Castor oil has been proven to stimulate the lymphatic system, increase the number of T - 11 cells, which reduces congestion allowing the traffic on this very important highway to flow freely.

The highways sector has produced a number of codes of practice, which have been funded by the Department for Transport, and these are applied nationally.

Fuel - economy ratings for the 2017 Honda Accord Hybrid are 49/47/48 mpg (city / highway / combined), which eagle - eyed readers will note are lower than the 2015 model's numbers.

Now, admittedly, these are not ideal conditions under which to test a hybrid of any kind — highway speeds and freezing temperatures are the two biggest enemies of any electrified powertrain, so I wasn't expecting to achieve the EPA - advertised numbers for the Ioniq — and I didn't.

Just after BMW made headlines with a 45 mpg highway rating for the 2014 BMW 328d, Mercedes - Benz has now achieved the same number on the larger 2014 Mercedes - Benz E250 BlueTec, which has just received official EPA ratings of 28/45 mpg city / highway.

My week of testing, which included a fair amount of highway driving, didn't even reach those numbers; I averaged 11.3 mpg in what was admittedly the coldest week of the winter of 2014/2015.

For 2016, the Alliance will introduce a number of vehicles that feature «single - lane control,» which lets vehicles drive autonomously on highways and in heavy, stop - and - go traffic.

We also have numbers for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro's 335 - hp, 3.6 - liter V - 6 engine option, which achieves 18/27 mpg city / highway when equipped with its standard six - speed manual transmission.

Using the EPA's more realistic 2008 rating system — which generally leads to lower numbers — gas mileage is rated at 18/24 mpg (city / highway) for two - wheel - drive models and 17/23 mpg for those with four - wheel drive.

Fuel economy numbers have not been released for either new model, but it would be safe to bet that the X3 sDrive 28i will be slightly more efficient than its all - wheel - drive variant, which is rated at 28 mpg on the highway.

Those figures are with the automatic transmission; the CX - 5 only hits its marquee number, 35 mpg highway, with the manual transmission, which can be had only on the base Sport with front - wheel drive.

This tuning is likely aimed at improving fuel economy, but the Sedona's numbers still lag behind the Odyssey's 19/28 mpg city / highway even in the Kia's most efficient SX trim, which has EPA ratings of 18/25 mpg city / highway.

These numbers trail behind the new Hyundai Elantra, which is expected to receive 40 mpg highway from all model variants.

We were pleasantly surprised that long highway hauls regularly returned numbers as high as 33 mpg, which demolishes the EPA's rating of 28 mpg.

Out on the highway, where sixth gear came into play, the petrol Nexon bettered its performance with a figure of 13kpl, which, if you think about it, is still not a shining number for a car of this size.

The EPA rates the 2006 Lexus IS 350 at 21mpg in the city and 28mpg in the highway, very good numbers for an engine of this size, which points to its efficiency.

This combination results in a 23 highway and 15 city EPA numbers, which averages out to 18.

Acceleration and cruising assist comes via an eight - speed automatic transmission, which is also responsible for the outstanding 23 city and 35 highway EPA fuel mileage numbers.

Still, Toyota sticks with the four - speed automatic which indeed delivers decent 30 city and 37 highway MPG numbers yet won't perform as «nice» as a multi-speed automatic.

Given that either engine can be had with all - wheel drive or front - wheel drive, which is optional on each trim level, and that each engine boasts almost identical fuel economy numbers (17 miles per gallon city / 24 miles per gallon highway), it is strange that the larger motor is so limited in its availability.

The official numbers from the EPA aren't out yet, but Honda representatives expect that the electric and gas - powered hybrid power setup will produce an estimate of 48 miles per gallon combined, which breaks down to an amazing 49 mpg in the city and 47 mpg on the highway.

So even without Mazda's latest lightweight chassis bits, this 3 gets an EPA fuel - economy rating of 40 mpg on the highway, which seems to be the magic number these days.

Official US EPA numbers are not yet available for the 428i Gran Coupe, they are expected to be in line with the 428i Coupe, which is rated at 23 mpg city / 35 mpg highway / 27 mpg combined.

It's rated 30/36/32 city / highway / combined which are good numbers, but if you're looking for a subcompact primarily for fuel economy, then those numbers will not impress.

The diesel gets an EPA fuel economy rating of 21 mpg in the city and 28 mpg on the highway, which is quite a bit better than the V8's 14 mpg city and 20 mpg highway numbers for the 4WD model.

At the same time, fuel economy ratings of 20 in the city and 24 on the highway — while not dramatically high numbers — are a big step up from the gasoline powered variant, which has city fuel economy in the mid-teens.

Under the hood, the aforementioned Pentastar V6 delivers 17 city and 25 highway EPA numbers, which are good for its size.

The new transmission helps the 5.0 L V8 get 16 mpg city and 25 mpg highway, which is very close to the 17/26 numbers that the 4.6 L V8 gets.

Fuel economy for the Volkswagen - which also offers the same pair of six - speed transmissions found in the Jetta - is listed at 31 - mpg city and 43 - mpg highway, numbers which can easily be bettered during steady - state cruising.

There's no official number on the mileage of the Milan Hybrid, but we've been told to expect around five miles per gallon better than the Camry Hybrid's highway performance (34 mpg), which would put it between 38 and 40 mpg, an impressive number for sure.

There were a number of changes for the 2014 Land Rover Range Rover, beginning with a new standard base engine — a supercharged 3.0 L V6, which delivered 340 hp and 332 lb - ft of torque and provided significantly better fuel economy than the outgoing engine with an EPA - estimated 23 mpg highway and 17 mpg city.

Not only is the 2.5 - liter engine $ 1,500 more expensive than the 2.0 - liter, but it's also much more expensive to run — the claimed 20mpg city / 29mpg highway economy figures pale in comparison to the 2.0 - liter's 26mpg city / 38mpg highway numbers (figures which, we may add, make the Volvo S60 with that engine the most efficient compact executive sedan on the market today).

Of course the big news for the 2015 Stingray is the new eight - speed automatic transmission which should help push the sports car's highway mpg numbers to 30 + according to some estimates.

We measured as much as 21 mpg on a long highway run in the all - wheel - drive model but saw that number drop closer to 17 mpg in mostly city driving, neither of which is impressive for a crossover.

The idea, here, is to allow that frame to absorb impacts in a number of different crash conditions, especially the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's small overlap crash, which only subjects the outer 25 percent of a vehicle's front end to an impact with a barrier.

The latter has a number of reasonably priced hotels and motels overlooking the beach and marks the start of one of the most dramatic stretches of Highway 1, which follows the shoreline north from here, passing Hearst Castle, and continuing up toward Big Sur in Monterey County

Lincoln hasn't released the highway numbers yet, which either means they don't have them yet or that they are lower than the Fusion's 36 MPG.

Over 60 % of the traffic on Illinois highways is comprised of trucks, which is more than twice the number of private vehicles on the road.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has stated that these types of collisions account for almost 30 % of all accidents, which is a staggering number.

The Governors» Highway Safety Association estimates that the number of pedestrians killed in 2015 increased by around 10 percent as compared with 2014, which is the largest annual increase in pedestrian fatalities since the federal government began collecting accident data forty years ago.

Out of all of the age ranges that are tracked by the Federal Highway Administration, this one has 104,459, which is the highest number and represents 9.1 percent of all licensed drivers.

A number of major roads and highways intersect in the city including Interstates 85 and 385, and U.S. Route 276 and 29 which makes it convenient to commute around.

However it will have your driver's license number listed which can be verified with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.

The study is based on fatal crash statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which looked at the number of deaths per 100 million vehicle miles or caused by DUI, speeding, careless driving, or other causes.