Sentences with phrase «highway speeds in»

Because people who may actually buy this car are far more likely to want it to park themselves than to get it to highway speeds in under three seconds.

These massive vehicles are often powered by engines that can produce more than 1,000 horsepower, propelling these 40 - ton vehicles up to highway speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour.

The combined 200 horsepower doesn't exactly make the Avalon peppy, but it's no slouch either and getting up to highway speeds in a hurry is no problem.

That's all thanks to an uprated 6.0 - litre twin - turbocharged W - 12 engine with 626 horsepower and all - wheel drive, which also helps it get up to highway speeds in the low four - second range.

Road and wind noise were well suppressed at highway speeds in the SFE, as in the other Fiestas, and it didn't take much throttle input for the hatch to move around with much more powerful cars on the road.

The performance of the 5.7 Hemi is excellent and delivers good fuel economy at highway speeds in the 20 - 22 MPG... better than the 4.7 in the 2004 model.

The power on - tap is enough to have you cruising — rather comfortably, I might add — at highway speeds in very little time.

With its 707 horsepower, we found that achieving wheelspin was effortless at highway speeds in third gear.

Braking: The four - wheel power - assisted discs with anti-lock system worked excellently, bringing the car to quick stops at highway speeds in short order.

A 5.3 liter V8 is the next step up, and it offers General Motor's Active Fuel Management system, which essentially shuts down half of the engine's cylinders while cruising at highway speeds in order to increase fuel economy.

The system also comes with a self - leveling feature lowering the car's ride height during highway speeds in order to reduce fuel consumption and improve aerodynamics.

Traveling at highway speeds in the Ford Fusion is quiet with no rattles to speak of.

While 245 hp doesn't sound sky - high on paper, it's more than enough to get the Sonata up to highway speeds in short order.

Even BMW can't make a three - cylinder gasoline engine alone shove 3,300 pounds to highway speeds in 4 - 5 seconds.

At highway speeds in drive, the V - 10 lopes along at about 2,500 rpm.

This four - cylinder power plant with two - barrel carburetor allows the America to cruise smoothly at highway speeds in combination with the automatic transmission.

It proved to be surprisingly peppy — brisk off the line and when merging with faster traffic, it pulls to highway speeds in short order without screaming too loudly.

The engine feels powerful, allowing this 4,000 - pound car to hit highway speeds in under five seconds.

I'm specifically referring to the loss due to the pistons pulling air through a mostly closed throttle while cruising at highway speeds in a gasoline engine.

The R8 GT sprints from a standing start to highway speed in 3.6 seconds, and from zero to 200 km / h (124.27 mph) in 10.8 seconds.

Combined with a nine - speed automatic, that pushes the 450 AMG to highway speed in around five seconds.

Not exact matches

Instead of investing in highways, ports, high - speed rail projects, and modern utilities, the U.S. has for decades continued putting new coats of paint on the same cracked wall.

Mills compared the need to invest in infrastructure such as highways, roads, and bridges to investment in high - speed broadband in the past two decades, which has enabled a lively app economy, which in turn has spawned nearly a million jobs, as well as an entirely new cloud computing industry worth $ 45 billion that touches some 6 million small businesses.

Up in the Santa Monica Mountains on Mulholland Highway, I sped the shimmering black - and - silver i8 through yet another sharp, blind turn, and lightly smacked its curvaceous flank on a shrub overhanging the exit.

Super Cruise will allow «hands - off lane following, braking, and speed control in certain highway driving conditions,» says Dan Flores, spokesman for Cadillac's parent company, General Motors.

On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the car will now reduce its speed in anticipation of curves on the highway, but added he was not aware of any accidents caused by the earlier version of the software.

If these guys can deliver burgers in their restaurant at highway speeds, how can you supercharge your product delivery?

And with its nifty seven - speed manual box it can both bolt from 0 — 100 km / h in just 4.3 seconds and post shockingly efficient mileage on the highway (I managed about 12 litres per 100 km).

Autopilot allows drivers to maintain the speed of their electric vehicles relative to the other vehicles on the highway, while keeping the vehicle in its lane.

The biggest immediate cost - advantage comes from savings in energy costs: fully loaded, the Tesla Semi consumes less than two kilowatt - hours of energy per mile and is capable of 500 miles of range at GVW and highway speed, accommodating a wide range of shipping applications given that nearly 80 % of freight in the U.S. is moved less than 250 miles.

Starsky Robotics co-founder Stefan Seltz - Axmacher tells me his goal for the platform is to allow drivers located in a central office to bring multiple units up to highway speed before handing control over to the autonomous system.

«Machines aren't really good at random change, so the reason it's easy to self - drive on the highway is that you're always in the right or second most right lane and maintaining a constant speed,» says Starsky Robotics co-founder Stefan Seltz - Axmacher.

RD, next you'll be posting that we shouldn't have speed limits on the highways, everyone can drive which ever way they choose on any lane given in which direction they choose.

In a flash, I was heading over the Ko'olau Mountains heading full speed down the Likelike (pronounced LEE - kay, LEE - kay) Highway.

As for the $ 7.8 billion highway and high - speed rail line connecting the coastal and mountain clusters, a wag in the Russian press calculated that it would have been cheaper to pave them with a layer of foie gras eight inches thick.

Which is great, but I almost did her one better by very nearly giving birth in the front seat of my husband's car while we sped down the highway at close to twice the legal speed limit.

Imagine a 100 mile straight highway contained in two cash - strapped regions that had a sine wave border with a one - mile wavelength, with the highway as the X axis, so that both regions» police would be in constant dispute over who collects speeding tickets.

The highway speed limit is the same (almost) everywhere in US because federal funds for maintaining the highways are specifically contingent upon satisfying the 65 MPH speed limit.

To me this shows that most drivers (and therefore most voters) would welcome an increase in highway speed limits, to (say) 160 km / h which is the maximum speed most people drive on the Autobahn.

----------------------- State Police arrested 33 year old Howard Archer of Unadilla for operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs and criminal possession of marihuana 5th, they also arrested 58 year old John Barkman of Sidney for unlawful possession of marihuana, after a vehicle stop when Archer was observed speeding on State Highway 8 in the Town of Unadilla.

The state Senate's transportation committee has approved a bill that would clear the way for a 70 mph speed limit on highways in Wisconsin.

Ben has pioneered a number of new approaches to traffic engineering and street design in the UK and mainland Europe, finding ways to slow speeds, improve safety and reduce highway clutter.

------------------------------- Delaware County Sheriff's Deputies arrested 40 year old Gloria Prott of Southhaven on charges of unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving while ability impaired by drugs, speeding at 80 miles an hour in a 55 zone and operating a motor vehicle with an open container of an alcoholic beverage, following a traffic stop on State Highway 17 in the Town of Hancock.

New York is the safest big city in America, and yet Cuomo has state troopers standing guard in Grand Central Terminal and zipping up and down the West Side Highway dispensing speeding tickets — tasks the NYPD is well - equipped to handle.

On a cold autumn morning, Christner guides his pickup down a two - lane highway in central Louisiana, speeding past pine thickets, swamps, and dirt roads that don't show up on his truck's navigation system.

For five days in a row, the volunteers completed two 20 - minute driving simulations along a monotonous stretch of straight highway at a constant speed, to mimic a commute to and from work.

Driving is fairly civilized in the cities, but on the Autobahn (Highway), where there are parts without speed limit, and it can get outright dangerous.

Since the Communist Party signaled its intention to create a national park system in a 2013 planning document, the government has banned logging in Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces, canceled a highway project that would have bisected big cat habitat, and rerouted a high - speed railway connecting China to Vladivostok, a city on Russia's Pacific coast.

After a quick draining the Impact stunned everyone with its performance; not only did it leave a Miata and a Nissan 300ZX in its dust in a head - to - head, standing - start race to 60 mph, but even when cruising at highway speeds it retained enough kick to press a driver into the seat when the accelerator was stomped — a benefit of its high - rpm, gearless powertrain.