Sentences with phrase «highway speeds of»

When these vehicles travel at highway speeds of 65 miles per hour or greater, a smaller vehicle does not stand a chance in a collision, and the results can be catastrophic.

Not only is that far below the competition, at the average Michigan highway speed of about 75 mph, I saw 24 to 25 mpg.

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.

(Mayor Brian Mullin claims the municipality sped along permit approvals, and there are discussions of improving highway access from the new plant.)

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.

Instead, a better metaphor may be people who somehow awoke at the helm of a very large bus speeding down the highway, he said.

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 you had a highway with no speed limit, the majority of drivers would still go about 90 miles per hour.

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.

A massive, long - range infrastructure commitment on the part of the federal govt to support building / rebuliding highways and bridges, interstate train service and hi - speed rail, city mass transit systems, and ports and airports, over minimum 10 years and even better 20, with requirement that majority of manufactured metal components be US - made.

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.

For reasons ranging from highway speeds to varying cargo requirements, trucking experts literally burst out laughing when asked about the notion of a driver sleeping while his truck barrels across a lonely state.

Now as then, most of the time for me gratitude is a rush of relief that I dodged a bullet — the highway patrol guy didn't notice me speed by or the dog didn't get hit by someone else speeding by.

You don't see that the car's got a flat tire; so you can speed down the highway waving happily at all the other drivers, unaware of the danger, until you crash.

----- ttm, you say I «don't see that the car's got a flat tire; so you [I] can speed down the highway waving happily at all the other drivers, unaware of the danger until you crash.»

When he got pulled over for speeding by a Texas state highway patrol officer while governor of Texas and asked the Trooper: «Don't you know who I am?»

The 55 mph speed limit is a value of and for highway driving, because it reduces the risk of highway accident (and hence exemplifies the value of preserving human life).

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.

And while you may assume that most of these tragedies resulted from fiery, high - speed collisions on a highway, the reality is that most car crashes involving children happen 10 minutes or less from home.

Along the drive, the first two hours of which was on a reasonably fast highway, we stopped for peanut porridge, jerk chicken, more beef patties — and everyone, no matter where we were, estimated we still had about three hours of driving ahead of us (including the two speed - gun - happy local cops who pulled us over).

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.

The Minister of Roads and Highways, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini, has warned under - performing cocoa road contractors to speed up work or risk the termination of their contracts.

Professor Graham Parkhurst of the University added that autonomous vehicles on highways may need to slow to a safe speed — lower than 70 or even 50MPH — before handover is attempted.

Where the speed limit is seen as unreasonable (e.g. 4 lane highway, middle of the night, 80 km / h limit), most people would go 15 - 20 over if they know radar detectors are unlikely to be present.

----------------------- 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.

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.

«Hayatu and Adesanmi were on their official duty as part of the highway patrol team before they were hit by a driver who was on high speed to evade the arrest of the FRSC officers», he said.

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.

A car traveling at highway speeds would not linger on any single charging pad for more than a fraction of a second, so the pads would need to be placed every few meters to provide a continuous charge.

It emits just 60 grams of CO2 per kilometer due to its 400 - kilogram weight for low - speed city use, versus 150 grams and 1,300 kilograms for many highway - bound sedans, according to Bajaj.

Do you think human activity — from overfishing to burning fossil fuels to illuminating our cities and highways with artificial light — could be speeding up the rate of mutation?

Then the containers are dispatched from the rail yards alongside the harbor onto 1,200 diesel - powered freight trains that ferry goods up and down the coast, and 35,000 semi tractor - trailers that speed along heavily congested highways to the rest of the country.

According to the car companies presenting at the World's Fair of 1939, your driveway was destined to become a runway, the highway a skyway, and the only speed limit the speed of sound.

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.

The magma that fuels its violent eruptions is incredibly fluid, capable of racing down the mountainside at highway speeds.

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

To investigate traffic transitions, Boris Kerner of Daimler - Benz in Stuttgart and Hubert Rehborn of Heusch / Boesefeldt, an intelligent transport systems firm in Aachen, used magnetic induction loops in a three - lane stretch of southbound highway near Frankfurt to monitor the number and speed of cars traveling in each lane.

Although one of the researchers always sat with his hands just inches from the wheel, Ralph handled more than 98 percent of the 2,500 highway miles in the journey, at an average speed of 63 miles an hour.

You can also think of the superconducting electrons like cars on a highway, all moving the same speed and direction, the picture of efficiency.

Like a ghostly highway with only a few cars, the belt nowadays has such a low density of objects that any collision — whether a high - speed crack - up or a low speed merger — is improbable.»

If you're speeding 30 miles over the speed limit today on the highway, reducing that, you know, all of these lifestyle things that we're going to recommend you anyway, go ahead and get started on some of those now.

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California Highway Patrol is pursuing the driver of a high - speed motorcycle through the Long Beach area.

For example, a biker man will ride out without any hesitation if he just want to enjoy the intense emotion of fast speed on the highway.

This is the terrain for which Foley, at his best a slinky genre stylist with a tobacco - acrid edge, was presumably brought on board, and he gives it a bit of vim: A luxury - vehicle car chase, screeching and weaving at arrogant speed along the highways of Seattle, is a set piece that rattles in the mind longer and louder than the who and why of it all.

Pull off insane stunts on top of skyscrapers, speed down busy highways and take an intense ride through the suburbs while competing with others to get to the top of the leaderboards.

David Bowie's «Heroes» comes on the radio, and as they fly through a tunnel on the highways around Pittsburgh, Sam climbs into the back of the pickup, stands up, and raises her arms, with the music and the wind and the speed all combining for that particular teenage euphoria at the endless possibilities of the world.

Yet 2K Games apparently thought I'd feel differently when designing Mafia II, since going over the speed limit in the presence of police officers (40mph on regular roads, 60mph on bridges and highways) will immediately lead to hot pursuit and, if you're feeling too lazy to ditch the cops, a $ 50 fine.

Driving at any speed on a foggy highway, when visibility is just beyond the end of the car, is scary.