Sentences with phrase «in public vehicles»

The issue centered around social decorum and eating in public vehicles; it ultimately required a change in statutes to allow mothers to feed their babies on the bus.

Not exact matches

Public pensions now have a tenth of their assets in these private and opaque vehicles; some endowments have much more.

Part of your brand is you — if you are out in the public with a shirt or vehicle with your company logo on it then go by the same rules as any other company would.

To date, no company has tested Level 5 autonomous vehicles on public roads in the US.

«That may involve working in the yard, working in the dock, partnering up with another driver until they're familiar with operating a commercial motor vehicle on a public highway.»

Waymo has been testing vehicles in Texas, Arizona, Washington State, Nevada, California and launched winter testing on public roads in Michigan.

Volkswagen will deploy autonomous test vehicles developed with Aurora on public roads in 2018.

Uber said California should allow paying members of the public to ride in autonomous vehicles with drivers.

Aurora confirmed to Fortune that it has been testing its autonomous vehicles on private courses and is now ramping up its test fleet operations on public roads in California, including in Palo Alto, Calif..

The district's city council passed Public Vehicle - for - Hire Innovation Amendment Act late in 2012 to allow and regulate what the law referred to as «digital dispatch» companies including Uber, ending a long ban.

Jane felt compelled to air her dirty laundry in a very public forum, so clearly there wasn't a vehicle in place for her to safely express those concerns internally and give management a chance to adjust its behaviour.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

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.

Because many cities don't have widespread public transportation, American households are put in a tough position where a new car is unaffordable but a vehicle is needed to get to work every day.

«The opioid crisis is a threat to public safety when it involves safety - sensitive employees involved in the operation of any kind of vehicle or transport,» Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a release.

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

In February, Uber and CMU went public with a partnership deal that was to result in joint advances in research and development for maps, vehicle safety, and autonomous drivinIn February, Uber and CMU went public with a partnership deal that was to result in joint advances in research and development for maps, vehicle safety, and autonomous drivinin joint advances in research and development for maps, vehicle safety, and autonomous drivinin research and development for maps, vehicle safety, and autonomous driving.

In September, California officials started requiring companies testing autonomous vehicles on public roads to get permits.

The startup will collect data during the public trial to refine the software and improve vehicle routing efficiency, the booking process, and passenger experience ahead of a wider commercial launch that is expected to begin in 2018.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

It prompted Uber to halt autonomous vehicle testing on public roads in four cities and other companies to pause their own public road tests.

Some predict that self - driving cars will replace both traditional public transportation and conventional cars in cities, transforming urban transportation into a network of interconnected vehicles to effectively eliminate traffic.

And then when we, I think John Markoff wrote a story, discovering that we were testing and driving the vehicles in public, that's when all the car companies realized at the first level that something might happen.

Smoking was to remain illegal while driving a vehicle, anywhere smoking tobacco is, and in all public places.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

REITs are pooled investment vehicles that invest primarily in income - producing real estate or real estate - related loans or interests, and REOCs are companies that invest in real estate and whose shares trade on public exchanges.

«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of TeslIn addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Teslin April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

We need to begin reducing the number of vehicles on our roadways, and the best ways to accomplish that is to invest in public transit infrastructure and embrace innovative transportation options that offer alternatives to conventional driving and car ownership,» says Black.

The fatal accident involving an Uber's self - driving vehicle and a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ over a week ago has called for the suspension of its public testing.

Prior to joining ValueAct Capital in January 2011, Mr. Hale was a Principal with The Parthenon Group, working in both the Boston and Mumbai offices of Parthenon's strategic consulting practice, as well as in an investment role at Parthenon's long - short public equity vehicle, Strategic Value Capital.

Follow the road to the right to locate public vehicle parking in Pay Lot 32.

Uber launched its self - driving pilot in San Francisco on Dec. 14, after which the DMV ordered the company to cease its operations until the vehicles got the permits required to test autonomous technology on public roads.

The state allows for the driving and testing of autonomous vehicles on public roadways, but requires the operator to obtain a $ 150 permit to drive in the state.

In addition, we believe that certain institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, could in the future demonstrate an increased preference for alternatives to the traditional investment fund structure, such as managed accounts, smaller funds and co-investment vehicleIn addition, we believe that certain institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, could in the future demonstrate an increased preference for alternatives to the traditional investment fund structure, such as managed accounts, smaller funds and co-investment vehiclein the future demonstrate an increased preference for alternatives to the traditional investment fund structure, such as managed accounts, smaller funds and co-investment vehicles.

The delays by both Honda and Takata in alerting the public about the defect — and later in Takata's acknowledging it extended beyond a small group of Honda vehicles — meant other automakers like BMW, Toyota and Nissan were not aware of possible defects in their own vehicles for years, putting off their recalls.

Winterkorn resigned soon after the scandal over polluting vehicles in the United States became public in September 2015.

Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles....

«But Parallel Domain's approach can help eliminate many of those concerns in virtual worlds before those vehicles reach public roads.»

The public's image of the vehicles will be defined by stories like the crash in Tempe, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies self - driving vehicles.

He represents issuers and underwriters in public and private initial and follow - on offerings of equity and debt securities, banks and hedge funds in secondary market par and distressed debt trading, and sponsors of and liquidity providers to securitization vehicles in connection with transactions and regulation applicable to their activities.

BMW drove fewer miles than some of the other major companies and only had its vehicles on public roads in March and April of 2016.

Waymo's vehicles in the Phoenix area have driven more than 4 million miles on public roads.

Baidu and other autonomous driving technology developers testing vehicles on public roads in California have had to release more details as to why thei...

The snappily dressed former Facebook executive, who co-founded Social Capital in 2011, made early bets on Bitcoin, started a hedge fund, and raised $ 600 million to help startups go public through an unconventional vehicle known as a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company.

«In the best interest of the people of my state, I have directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's ability to test and operate autonomous vehicles on Arizona's public roadways,» Ducey wrote in his letteIn the best interest of the people of my state, I have directed the Arizona Department of Transportation to suspend Uber's ability to test and operate autonomous vehicles on Arizona's public roadways,» Ducey wrote in his lettein his letter.

In three separate notices to be filed in the Federal Register in the coming weeks by various agencies within the DOT, regulators intend to glean input from developers of automated vehicles, end users, the public and other stakeholders to produce what Chao dubbed the Federal Automated Vehicle Policy 3.In three separate notices to be filed in the Federal Register in the coming weeks by various agencies within the DOT, regulators intend to glean input from developers of automated vehicles, end users, the public and other stakeholders to produce what Chao dubbed the Federal Automated Vehicle Policy 3.in the Federal Register in the coming weeks by various agencies within the DOT, regulators intend to glean input from developers of automated vehicles, end users, the public and other stakeholders to produce what Chao dubbed the Federal Automated Vehicle Policy 3.in the coming weeks by various agencies within the DOT, regulators intend to glean input from developers of automated vehicles, end users, the public and other stakeholders to produce what Chao dubbed the Federal Automated Vehicle Policy 3.0.