Sentences with phrase «highway speeds the car»

This is opposite to the norm with highway usage usually being less, but at highway speeds the car relies on the gasoline engine more.

Not exact matches

Those numbers are all highway - ready cars, and does not include low speed neighborhood electric vehicles that look like golf carts.

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.

Google capped their speed at 25 mph, which will presumably keep the cars on neighborhood roads and off main thoroughfares or highways.

Enhanced Autopilot will eventually allow the car to match its speed to traffic conditions, automatically change lanes without driver input, merge on and off highways, and park itself.

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.»

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.

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.

A short walk from the headquarters, on the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, formerly the Triborough Bridge, Mr. Gugliero watched as cars sped through the sensors, noting how small a footprint the scaffolding for the system needs — making it a feasible option for tighter roadways like the West Side Highway and the F.D.R. Drive.

The situation is similar to cars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway specars on a highway, he explained: Cars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speCars may be bunched up when they first enter the highway from an on - ramp, but they gradually spread apart as they accelerate to highway speeds.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

A 25 - year - old woman is fighting for her life in hospital after she was critically injured in a high speed car crash on the M25 Kwamashu 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.

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.

The title Il Soprasso is an Italian term for passing cars on the road, a defining action in the film as speed demon Bruno constantly overtakes cars on the highway like it was a road race.

In any case, Jonathan is soon outshone by his burgundy convertible, which takes center stage when the film shifts into high gear — a warp - speed car chase around Dubai's sweeping highways.

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

The electric powertrain ran out around 25 miles into the journey, not unexpected at highway speeds, but the car will still run in electric mode with the engine providing battery power instead of actual propulsive force if need be.

With two more ratios than the current car's six - speed automatic, the new transmission helps the 3.0 T improve its EPA ratings from 18/16 to 19/28 mpg (city / highway).

The CVT - equipped car actually gets better city mileage (27 mpg) than the four - speed automatic model could manage on the highway.

One of the entrances to the race course begins right in the foothills of the ranch, and we wound our way up the dirt path slowly to warm the cars up, only gaining speed when the road spit us out onto a surprisingly smooth asphalt highway.

Even short highway stretches were far less mentally exhausting thanks to the latest generation of Infiniti's Intelligent Cruise Control, which maintained speed and kept the car in its lane with a series of minute steering adjustments.

Yet it was so smooth as a highway car that it contributed to the acquisition of the only speeding ticket I've had since AUTOMOBILE began.

When I'm stopped it makes no sound, and after hitting highway speeds it stops and doesn't start up until the car is restarted.

Audi will test autonomous cars that meet the Level 3 criterion defined by the Society of Engineers, meaning the vehicles can drive autonomously at posted highway speeds under certain conditions.

The glovebox automatically locks when the car is locked, to keep valuables safer when the roof is down, and there's an optional wind deflector that can be fitted to reduce buffeting at highway speeds.

I recently noticed my car is making a barely - perceptible, low - pitched, buzzing or droning sound at highway speeds.

The car has gobs of power and impressive steering and brakes, balanced with the ability to approach 30 mpg at steady highway speeds.

At highway speeds, the Meridian held up against road noise better than any other system, with clear and well - defined bass still distinguishable at 75 mph, and the audio experience for back - seat passengers was among the best of any car tested, with a pleasant and accurate soundstage.

I took the Z - car out of town for a weekend trip, and it was perfectly pleasant at highway speeds.

The tech tells me that he drove the car down the street next to the shop (not going at highway speeds where I experienced serious problems) and it seemed to run fine for him.

With Sport S +, the same things happen, plus the steering and suspension firm up — but only marginally so, perhaps most notably at highway speeds, as steering effort rises and the car feels more planted.

If she gets it going up to highway speeds a gas odor is detected inside the car.

On this high - speed three - lane highway, the big, blond Benz is the easiest car to drive hard and fast.

Where many cars seem almost to propel themselves, with barely more than a thought from the driver, this one felt like it needed constant tending — like a fireplace — to keep its flames roaring and up to speed on the highway.

A Level 4 system that will allow the car to pilot itself at posted highway speed limits is due in 2020 - 2021, Audi says.

We rounded out our year with the Alfa twins by taking the Spider for high - speed runs up the winding Angeles Crest Highway and slow rolls alongside the Pacific Ocean, certain the car deserved every ounce of praise we initially gave it.

You can speed the tune - up process by being ready to describe what happens and when (such as whether your car hesitates when the engine is cold or when passing at highway speeds), any sounds you hear and what you feel when your car's «illness» shows up.

There is still an abundance of legroom and cargo space, the driver is treated to an airy and open cockpit, the ride is as quiet as it is composed, and the car tracks beautifully at highway speed.

File this one under pleasant non-surprises: thanks to some calculations by the Highway Loss Data Institute, it has been proven that cars with active collision avoidance systems do actually avoid low - speed collisions by around 25 percent.

Again, it's on the highway that the car's acceleration shines, passing effortlessly and in a rather quiet manner at high speeds.

Word is, after coming out of bankruptcy, the company is charging forward to begin production of its TH!NK City, a highway - capable electric car with a 130 - mile range and a top speed of 65 mph.

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.

Car runs and (slowly) achieves highway speeds, travels 50 miles a day so no catastrophic failure.

At our pathetically slow highway speeds, we need everything we can get to make driving fun — crazy steering feel, an engaging manual transmission, and a car that's perhaps a little bit flawed.