Sentences with phrase «highway stretches in»

one of the most beautiful coastal highway stretches in the country, will lead you to the Port Douglas Holiday Home.

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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.

Ségolène Royal, the country's Minister of Environment and Energy, has a goal to install a stretch of solar paneled road on every highway in France, but time will tell if the benefits outweigh the costs.

In September, BMW and Volkswagen partnered with California startup ChargePoint to install nearly 100 public electric vehicle fast - charging stations along two of the busiest stretches of highway in the United StateIn September, BMW and Volkswagen partnered with California startup ChargePoint to install nearly 100 public electric vehicle fast - charging stations along two of the busiest stretches of highway in the United Statein the United States.

MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. — On a stretch of highway not a half - hour from Fairfield County, just off the Saw Mill River Parkway, luxury auto dealerships fall in line, one after the other: BMW, Volvo, Lexus — and Tesla, the relatively new kid on an expensive block...

Tesla did note that, according to its data, Tesla owners have driven that same stretch of Highway 101 with Autopilot engaged about 85,000 times since Tesla first rolled out the automated control system in 2015.

Billy and Jean took a motel room in Riverside, which is near Rubidoux, and drove out to J.D.'s Hi - Spot, a gabled beer bar that sits on a desolate stretch of Mission Highway.

Trump's $ 4.4 trillion budget plan would slash funding for interstate highways, jeopardizing New York's plan to transform a stretch of Interstate 81 in Syracuse in the next decade, Schumer said.

The Legislature in July last year backed legislation that would name the new bridge in honor of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's father, while also approving legislation to name a park after former Assemblyman Denny Farrell and stretch of highway after Sen. Bill Larkin.

Farrell is having a park named after him, part of a broader bill approved this summer that also names the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge after Mario Cuomo and a stretch of highway in the Hudson Valley after Republican Sen. Bill Larkin.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's $ 4.4 trillion budget plan would slash funding for interstate highways, jeopardizing New York's plan to transform a stretch of Interstate 81 in Syracuse in the next decade, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Tuesday.

The bridge was named after the governor's father in a bill that also named a stretch of highway after Sen. Bill Larkin and a park after former Assemblyman Denny Farrell.

The useful life of the highway's 1.4 mile stretch through downtown Syracuse would expire in 2017 and officials wanted to be ready with a plan to repair, rebuild or replace it.

The Thruway Authority operates the superhighway that shares its name, the Tappan Zee Bridge, other stretches of interstate highway in New York and a network of upstate canals.

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.

Teddy Roosevelt called this stretch of Wyoming's North Fork Highway «the most scenic 50 miles in the world.»

Anthony Clevenger, a wildlife biologist in Calgary, Alberta, set out to study a notorious 35 - mile stretch of the Trans - Canada Highway known as The Meatmaker.

«My committee heard from Somalians who said many people in that area had symptoms of poisoning and some died,» Scalia attests, referring to a stretch of highway along which Alpi and Hrovatin may have witnessed the offloading of toxic substances.

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.

Like a modern - day Sisyphus, Tony Sentmanat drags a 150 - pound sled up and down the block - long parking lot that runs in front of a strip mall stretched along Highway 157 in Arlington, Texas.

Honky Tonk Highway is a stretch of Lower Broadway, the most popular spot for tourists in Nashville.

Maybe that's because they're spending their summer painting lines on a stretch of wildfire - ravaged Lone Star State highway in the middle of nowhere.

Nichole Sanders» daily commute begins with a 14 - mile drive across a seemingly endless stretch of New Mexico grassland, mountains rising in the distance on all four sides, the only traffic the stubborn cattle that congregate on the dirt road leading out to Highway 12.

All - wheel - drive traction and a firm but comfortable suspension should keep you happy on the highway, where the A7 covers vast stretches of interstate in supreme comfort, and on winding roads, where all - wheel drive helps it «shine on slimy, slick, twisty bits,» according to Drinnon, who used the A7 as a support vehicle for the California Mille last spring.

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.

But last year the territory's new right - wing Country Liberal administration lifted the limit on two trial stretches of the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs in the heart of the outback to the territorial capital, Darwin, on the coast.

There's no better way to travel U.S. highways than at the wheel of an American car, especially one as powerful as the SHO, which eats up the long stretches of open road in the emptiness of the West.

As we traversed Montana highways and crossed the Continental Divide in an ML350 Bluetec, acceleration proved most urgent in the midrange stretch of the power band, where torque peaks between 1600 and 2400 rpm; passing slower traffic requires careful management of shift patterns while avoiding the engine's wheezy upper rev ranges, where oomph tapers off.

Volvo plans to take the Pilot Assist features a few steps further in 2017, when it will test a fleet of 100 XC90s with enough autonomy to allow drivers to not pay attention to the road when traveling on a roughly 50 - kilometer (31 mile) stretch of highway in the automaker's home town of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Wearing a unique red license plate, the Freightliner Inspiration will be tested autonomously on limited stretches of interstate highway in Nevada, which in 2011 became the first state to adopt regulations for robotic vehicles.

Its long, flat stretches were favorable to the Golf R's fuel economy, which approached 24 mpg instead of the low 20s we've been more commonly recording in and around L.A.. That's still a far cry from its EPA rating of 30 mpg highway, but when you're trying to get a boring, six - hour - plus drive over with as quickly as possible, you're not worrying about maximizing mileage.

They make sense in low - speed and self - contained environments where vehicles can simply come to a stop if something goes wrong and on smoothly flowing stretches of highway.

The Project involves redesigning a 10 - mile portion of I - 70 East highway in Denver, Colorado which stretches from I - 25 on the west to Tower Road on the east.

Aside from a very lovely windmill farm, this is perhaps the least exciting stretch of highway in the Midwest, so I get into the right lane, set cruise control to 77 mph, put the Corvette into Eco mode, and let cylinder deactivation turn the V - 8 engine into a V - 4.

Since the majority of the state's population is centered in the eastern half of state, along I - 35 stretching into Oklahoma City, the highways have experienced increased congestion.

This system works best on mostly straight stretches of highway, and I only felt comfortable taking my hands off the wheel and experimenting with it in very light traffic.

As finalists for Goodyear's North America Highway Hero Award, three professional truck drivers battled flames to pull victims to safety in separate accidents and another driver saved a mother and her baby from oncoming traffic as they lay on a wet and dark stretch of Florida's Turnpike.

The gnarly 175 km stretch between Omeo and Tallangatta became Victoria's first gazetted highway in 1925, but — unbelievably — it wasn't completely sealed until 2014, so this twisty, narrow, low - grip and mostly Armco-less ribbon of smooth bitumen provides the perfect place to identify the strengths and weaknesses of any vehicle.

Leg 5: Mitta Mitta to Tallangatta In fairness to our Catalunya Red RS 3 Sedan, the stretch down through Eskdale and Tallandoon to the Murray Valley Highway didn't really highlight the strengths of the cheapest RS model here.

The MINI's legs are powerful but short, and the tight wheelbase that so dramatically aids turn - in and nimbleness do the Works no favors on bumpy stretches of highway.

After an hour of driving and putting the Panamera Turbo through a reasonable late - night workout, torching on - ramps and deserted stretches of highway and everything in between, I got out of the car and was suddenly taken aback.

I drove it up and down Angeles Crest Highway and even found a flat stretch out in The Valley to try a launch.

Longer highway stretches registered closer to 40 MPG in my hands, and tank range checked in at a solid 550 miles.

Engines that shut off on the highway without warning, timing chains that stretch and fail, and transmissions that give up the ghost are just some of the harrowing issues seen in some late models.

So, if you're not the type to plug in at home, at work and while out running errands, or if most of your miles are logged on long highway stretches, your fuel economy will likely hover in that 27 - mpg range, which, to my mind, is hardly worth the extra expense, complexity and weight for the single - digit mpg boost over the non-hybrid Cooper S.

It's open stretches like highways where the Jeep Grand Cherokee comes into its own, with the ride quality in particular being an area of praise.

During 470 miles of mixed driving the Abarth produced only 21.1 mpg, with a best tank of 28.9 mpg in a stretch that was mostly highways.

It didn't start out that way in the city as I was getting in the high single digits, but with some long coasting city stretches and a highway stint, the Cruze achieved a decent score that I believe could have been lowered.

This is not a performance oriented vehicle by any stretch of the imagination, and basic highway passing maneuvers required putting the pedal to the floor in almost every occasion.