When he sped by, all the folks would say, «Look at
that S car go!»
Last year the Yates Center News frequently printed stories about its teams on Page One with thick black headlines that were two or three times bigger than other front - page headlines such as GOVERNOR TO BE IN COUNTY or SHERIFF»S CAR GOES OUT OF CONTROL or HORSE KILLED ON HIGHWAY.
«At every customer meeting we have, people ask, «When
are cars going to be everywhere?
So who exactly
is this car going to appeal to?
Not only
is this car going to be extremely attractive and sleek, it's functional.
It was vital that both Corvettes survive every race because
they were the cars going to Le Mans.
For example, it would be important to know things like, how fast
was each car going?
Answering, he heard his wife's voice urgently warning him, «Herman, I just heard on the news that there
's a car going the wrong way on route 290.
Not exact matches
When I asked why, one of them said: «It
's incredible to see so many
cars going so fast without hitting each other.»
As he puts it, it
's hard to
go out and buy a new
car with everything you might already want in it.
We've set up decoys for some of our high - profile clients when the paparazzi
are out on the street — we'd have a
car go in one direction, and they'd
go out the back.
We don't want to
be loaded up on the truck while the
cars are still
going around the track.
But he
's already weighing his options, saying if gas
goes to $ 4 a gallon he'll buy a more fuel - efficient
car to use as his main ride and drive the Land Cruiser only when he needs it.
The belief
is that most online businesses will never
be able to compete with the personalized service of a person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day
is going, to help carry your bags to your
car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.
College
was never in the cards for this Florida kid who got a head start on his friends and
went into the work force at 18 years old, and started fixing and racing
cars on the side.
YourMechanic, or its app,
is not
going to tell a mechanic how to fix a
car; the mechanic
is going to figure it out when he or she arrives onsite.
GPS technology tracks their mileage as they
go, and brands get real - time visualized dashboards of
cars» impressions, so they know how many people
are seeing them.
But if I
'm in the left lane and there
are cars both ahead of me and strung out beside me... where do you expect me to
go?
Going from ADAS to driverless
car is a little bit like having a microprocessor in a human brain.
That
's a small step in the right direction, but it
's hardly the best use of the technology that
is available in other cities,
going all the way up to experiments with driverless
cars, which we
're not even legally able to carry out in this province.
When you hear [Toronto general manager of transportation services] Steve Buckley set out his vision of where we
're going to
be in 10 years, he says there
's going to
be a series of robo - cabs sharing the roads possibly with some driverless
cars and transit vehicles.
Whether you
're looking for something fun to do like mini golf or
go - karts or a more practical deal like a discounted oil change or
car wash, you'll find it here.
«Autonomous
cars are going to need extremely high - resolution maps, far beyond what we have today,» Laslau says.
«We think that this
is going to dramatically advance the pace at which
cars start to talk to one another — to see in blind spots, to see where there
's a traffic jam,» says Giraud.
DBL Investors A spinoff of J.P. Morgan, DBL has become one of the nation's top impact investors, thanks to its $ 75 million Bay Area Equity Fund I. (Among DBL's portfolio firms
is Tesla, the electric -
car company that
went public last June.)
Lacking a leader, «it
's hard for me to
be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they
're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they
're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of
cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.
In one memorable example, the «green police» stop a long line of smog - belching
cars but wave a lone, righteous diesel from VW's Audi division through with a cheery, «You
're good to
go, sir.»
Put a quarter in a clear jar for every 1/2 hour you
are going to
be in the
car.
And with traditional automakers slow to cannibalize their combustion engine vehicles, he thinks it
's going to
be hard for them catch up to on electric, despite the production problems plaguing Tesla
's new Model 3 sedan, its first vehicle aimed at the mass
car - buying market.
So, for example, as autonomous
cars come on the road, it
's going to create a lot of downstream issues.
«The human - computer speech interface
is the next big thing,» says Nigel Fenwick, a digital business and technology analyst with Forrester, who says Alexa and similar systems
were integrated with just about everything on the floor: refrigerators, light fixtures, house - keeping robots, security cameras, door locks,
cars, speakers and headphones, shower heads, air conditioners, and the list
goes on and on.
When you
are about to leave after having your
car serviced, someone will say to you, «You
are going to get a follow - up call tomorrow from corporate asking how well you
were treated.
«I
'm really hesitant to open it, or to
go to a
car wash, or do anything that might potentially break it,» she says.
When you
are getting ready to
go to the airport, the next morning it
's like me, you know, I've got to get in the
car, rent a
car, I
'm going to have to
go in traffic, you know.
The production ramp on the Model 3 mass - market
car isn't
going according to plan (But don't panic, Tesla says!)
When I founded Zipcar we
were very community focused, we had lot of parties where we provided the transportation and they provided the potluck picnics or the destination, and whenever I needed
cars or parking locations or new employees or surveys of what
cars to buy, I
went to my customers, all the time they
were front and center and part of building that company.
The amount of steel that
goes into a
car is «a pretty small part of the total costs», says Janet Lewis of Macquarie Capital Securities.
In 1997, when the first Toyota Prius
went on sale in Japan, Conceptromec president and founder Stéphane Bégin wasn't worried how electric
cars would affect his company.
Even though I
was driving for a team I hadn't driven for, and the pedals in the
car were different than what I
'm used to... the weirdest thing
was driving to the race track knowing I
was actually
going to race.
My colleague Steve Kovach has also covered two swerves on Project Titan — that Tim Cook made some obscure statements that suggest a recent investment in a Chinese
car - sharing service is going to provide support, somehow, for the Apple Car, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks basele
car - sharing service
is going to provide support, somehow, for the Apple
Car, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks basele
Car, alleged to arrive in 2021, a rumor that now looks baseless.
Having followed the nearly inconsequential progress of the mysterious Project Titan, I
'm ready to say that if you insist on thinking Apple will
be selling an actual
car by the next decade, you
're going to
be disappointed.
As with driving a
car, looking backward when
going forward
is not an effective or safe way to see what
is coming.
The partners at Toronto - based mobile strategy and development shop BNOTIONS
were so excited about the idea of the Internet - connected
car that they
went out and bought the latest Tesla Model
S, just to get their employees thinking about it.
«You
're going to spend a lot of money on your suit, a lot of money on your
car or your house, and then at the same time you
're going to
be cheap on your hair?»
If you wonder why there
's so much conversation and noise about the entertainment centers, video displays, cameras, as well as the connectivity
being built into the new
cars and trucks, it
's because pretty soon we'll all just
be sitting quietly and passively in a comfy seat while the
car takes us where we need to
go.
During the pursuit, Stockley could
be heard saying on an internal police
car video he
was going to kill Smith, prosecutors said.
The boundaries between
car makers, train makers, bicycle makers and whatever else
are going to change.
Zipcar has since
gone from
being an interesting idea to the leader in
car sharing, with about 760,000 members, a public offering in 2011, and $ 300 million in annual revenues.
Wherever you
go, you will likely
be recorded on camera when you use a self - driving
car.
In terms of getting you where you
're going, what
's going on inside the
car takes on increasing importance and significance compared with what
's under the hood.