Sentences with phrase «into vehicle testing»

Furthermore, Kelley and another former backup driver interviewed by CityLab suggested that safety drivers were rushed into vehicle testing conditions for which neither they nor the technology was fully prepared.

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Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Fisker then suffered a series of mishaps, including a battery flaw that caused at least one of its vehicles to burst into flames, and a lurid episode with Consumer Reports, when its test Karma sedan failed to run at all, a first in the history of that publication.

The action has helped turn Phoenix and its multitude of suburbs into a destination for autonomous vehicle testing.

Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test self - driving vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.

The growing list of companies with state approval to test autonomous vehicles on city streets and highways highlights the race to turn the sci - fi technology into reality.

Delphi told the agency that another car crashed into its Audi test vehicle on the evening of Oct. 14 in Palo Alto, Calif..

With tech companies piling into the ring, China is green - lighting driverless vehicle testing in more...

At the end of August, the company received a permit to run self - driving car tests in California, alongside an earlier permit that it got in Korea, and announcements like today's will make sure that they will have not just their own tech, but that of partners, to put into those vehicles.

This is where we come into the picture: our technology makes it possible to model these systems and the semiconductors that will be integrated in them, so that it will be possible to test the vehicle software on them before the hardware that runs it has been developed in the real world.»

«And we are going to use it also to test our fighting vehicles, other key equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian Army inventory.

«And we are going to use it also to test fire our fighting vehicles, other key equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian army inventory.

Ironically, with much talk currently over EU Type Approval regulations, it is Article 4 (2) of EU Directive 2009 / 40 / EC, that allows governments to exempt pre - 1960 vehicles and in fact brings requirements into line with the unladen pre-1960 manufactured HGVs, which are already exempted from the MOT testing.

Extending autonomous vehicle testing: This also was in Cuomo's State of the State plans: He wants to allow the state autonomous vehicle testing program to continue into 2020 instead of expiring later this year.

«My best guess is that they have managed to put the ECU into an unencrypted test state, possibly by playing around with power - up sequences,» says Peter Highton, a senior engineer with Freescale Semiconductor in Aylesbury, UK, which makes ECU microchips for racing cars as well as ordinary vehicles.

Test fleets of the alternatively fueled vehicles have run into a host of difficulties, but continue to move forward

Planetary Resources — which last year deployed a demonstration vehicle into low - Earth orbit to test core avionics, navigation, and computing systems — is soon to deploy another vehicle to test remote sensing capacities.

To test the process, the WPI researchers sliced the drive unit (which contains the electric motor and other components of the drive train) of an all - electric Chevrolet Spark vehicle into several pieces and then shredded the pieces.

Although this could take a while, «some of the ideas might find their way into test vehicles in the next 10 years,» he says.

In other words we will test whether terminals on the outskirts of Oslo can be used as loading and unloading facilities where goods can be sorted and transhipped to electric vehicles for the last stage of their transport into the centre.

In essence, the new accelerated evaluation process breaks down difficult real - world driving situations into components that can be tested or simulated repeatedly, exposing automated vehicles to a condensed set of the most challenging driving situations.

The mirror will also be designed in a similar segmented approach to those being tested for the James Webb telescope, allowing it to fit within the fairings of the Delta - IV Heavy Launch Vehicle (pictured below) pegged to lift the gigantic telescope into its operational orbit.

Test Drive Unlimited is no exception of this, as there are just tons of the premiere vehicles around the world are all placed into this game.

Far better are the crazy Marys and Zoes who turn the tables when Mike slams his stunt car into the supercharged vehicle they're test - driving.

Rather than ramming a vehicle squarely into a barrier at 35 mph, the IIHS performs an offset test at 40 mph.

Our aim is simple: Test the Defender's mettle one last time before it totters off into history, not with a shiny new vehicle stocked with mollycoddling extras but a gritty, go - anywhere, old 90.

Our test vehicle was completely empty, so there was a huge amount of road noise and exhaust boom reverberating through the cargo hold and up into the cabin area.

Side - Impact Test: Forecasts the chances of severe injury when one side of the vehicle is hit by a fixed barrier at just under 40 miles per hour and also when the vehicle is launched sideways at 20 miles per hour into a narrow pole.

The frontal crash test crashes the vehicle into a fixed barrier at 35 miles per hour, and the side crash plows a 3,015 lb barrier moving at 38.5 mph into a standing vehicle.

Despite the belief of many that the Volkswagen Phaeton full - size luxury sedan was the answer to a question nobody asked, VW development chief Heinz - Jakob Neusser said that an all - new Phaeton was in the works, and despite superficial appearances, that the business case for it was quite good, as it serves as a test - bed for putting new technologies into production, and ultimately putting them into more mass - market Volkswagen vehicles, Britain's Autocar reports.

These partnerships were created in order to test autonomous vehicles because Lyft intends to incorporate them into their vehicle fleet and use them as part of their ride - hailing business.

Before you do work on a vehicle of a performance nature, it's a good habit to get into to put the vehicle on a dyno and test it out to see what are it's current power / torque levels.

The automaker had also been working on installing a similar system into a light - duty Dodge Ram pickup, but ultimately elected only to build a handful of plug - in electric Ram test vehicles for a project concocted with the U.S. Department of Energy.

Despite the interuptions by kids and test drives she had me into a new vehicle within 2 hours.

Test drive this new vehicle at Toyota of Olympia today and let us put excitement back into your drive!

The Secretary shall enter into a cooperative agreement with not more than 4 qualified entities to test public transportation vehicles under subsection (a).

Ford owners depend on the solid craftsmanship and innovative technology built into all Sunrise Ford Hollywood vehicles serving Glendale, Burbank, San Fernando and other Los Angeles area car shoppers are invited to stop by our Ford Dealer showroom, take a test drive and see why so many car shoppers are choosing Ford over the competition.

The VRC's 22,000 - square - foot crash hall has three runways to accommodate front and side tests replicating crashes into another vehicle or fixed object.

We believe long - term tests give car buyers a deeper insight into the vehicle on test, but also the qualities behind the brand and nameplate.

All - wheel - drive and four - wheel - drive vehicles from Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, and Ram were trucked into a snow - covered test course in Montreal, Quebec last week, to play around in the snow...

We first went into the dealership to test drive a vehicle.

Our test vehicles represent a solid entry point into the SUV segment and are likely to be cross-shopped given their packaging and price point, which sees significant overlap at the mid-spec volume sellers.

Heading into the New England Motor Press» annual Winter Test Days voting, this vehicle will be my choice for category winner and overall best.

Small overlap testing is conducted by crashing the vehicle into a 5 - foot - tall rigid barrier with 25 percent of its overall width overlapping the barrier.

The test car's four - speed, automatic - overdrive transmission and its «shift - on - the - fly» Command - Trac, four - wheel - drive system turned the engine's potential into power, whether the vehicle was on the road or mastering sand and culverts on its big Michelin tires.

The knowledge gained from field tests with the BMW ActiveE will be fed into the further development of the BMW Group's future Megacity Vehicle, which will be ready for series production in the year 2013.

In Euro NCAP's test, a deformable barrier is mounted on a trolley and is driven at 50km / h into the side of the stationary test vehicle at right angles.

In each test, the vehicle was propelled sideways at 18 mph into a rigid pole.

The vast majority of vehicles that automotive journalists test come from dedicated fleets maintained by the manufacturers, but once in a while, a new vehicle never makes it into that fleet.

We encourage you to stop by the Sloane Toyota Philadelphia showroom to test drive equipped new Toyota vehicles, and check out the video below for more insight into the 2.0 autonomous test platform.