Sentences with phrase «lasting car driven»

Starting to feel pain because no owner will reasonably let its 50000km - lasting car driven by others, EVO included...

The last car I drove at Estoril was Honda's amazingly capable NSX.

Stirling Moss's own Porsche RS - 61 Spyder — the last car he drove on track — is up for auction at Goodwood later this month with an estimate of # 1.7 to # 2 million.

Not exact matches

Bhavesh Patel, 39, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving after a witness saw him sitting in the passenger seat of his car, the driver's seat empty, as it drove along the famous M1 highway on May 21 of last year.

Last month, a bill that would cap the number of for - hire vehicles given permits — including the cars of people who drive for Uber and Lyft — was defeated after vocal protests by Uber drivers and its supporters.

Last month, a committee of House lawmakers advanced a bill that would help companies like GM and Google seek more exemptions to federal safety rules, perhaps allowing them the ability to test as many as 100,000 experimental self - driving cars in the United States.

One day last August, lender relations specialist Ford Scott and business development specialist Bob McLoone signed out an agency car and made the long drive toward the Tennessee border and Abingdon, an old mercantile town in the far southwest part of the state with red - brick buildings and red - brick sidewalks.

On the day I drove this car last week, in Malibu and through the canyons near Mulholland Drive, that's how I carried my backpack.

It means driving the same car for many years, buying good quality items that would last a long time, buying second hand products when it makes sense, simplifying your life so you don't own random crap, and not buying things for the sake of buying them.

Last year, Hyundai launched its first mass - market pure electric car IONIQ, but the vehicle's per - charge driving range is much shorter than offerings from Tesla and GM.

Then last year when I filled in for Dale... I didn't know if I would ever get another chance to drive a Cup car, so I wanted to have as much fun and enjoy it as much as I could.

And, last week, Apple obtained a permit to test - drive three driverless cars in California.

The move was the apparent result of his involvement in the legal standoff between Uber and Waymo, the self - driving car division spun out of Google last year.

It's gotten so bad that the government mandates, by law, people can not drive their car for two days out of the week depending on the last digit of their license plate.

If there was one takeaway from the video Google released last week of its self - driving cars — besides the fact that, you know, they drive themselves — it's how boring the typical commute could soon be.

And AMD is working with Tesla (tsla) to develop the likely more critical AI chips needed to make self - driving cars a reality, CNBC said last week.

I certainly didn't, even though the TLX A-Spec includes both a Sport and a Sport Plus driving mode, in additional to Normal and Econ (the last helping the car make good on its 20 mpg city / 29 highway / 23 combined fuel - economy ratings).

The drive lasted only a few minutes and lacked the physical sensation of road bumps, for example, so it's difficult to say how smooth a car is in reality while driving down the road or how well the car handles.

Still, the lawsuit has hobbled Uber's self - driving car program, with Uber attorney Bill Carmody telling the court last week that the case «is the biggest in the history of Uber.»

Uber last month launched a pilot program in Tempe, allowing passengers to hail a ride in a self - driving car through the Uber app.

Now Uber, which first announced plans to apply for the permit last week, has brought its self - driving cars back to California and acquiesced to the state's rules.

Uber was forced to shutter its self - driving pilot in San Francisco last December just a week after launching, when the DMV revoked the registration of 16 Uber self - driving cars for lacking the proper permits.

Khosrowshahi also briefly touched on the company's driverless car pilot program as well as the ongoing investigation after one of Uber's self - driving cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. last month.

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

Tesla, which besides developing self - driving cars is also pushing into solar power after acquiring SolarCity last year, tends to keep him the most busy, Musk added.

The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber's ability to test self - driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49 - year - old pedestrian.

That means it cost 29 times as much energy to produce Bitcoins last year as it did to power all the Tesla cars driving today.

Last month, Uber bought self - driving trucks startup Otto and formed a $ 300 million alliance with Volvo Car Group to develop self - driving cars.

But if you cut somebody off, or jump into an exit at the last minute, nobody seems to get mad when you're driving that car.

Last week, Uber began to provide rides in self - driving cars in Pittsburgh on a limited basis.

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.

(I've heard countless horror stories of the latter, especially from the auto industry when I was closely covering the self - driving car startups last year.)

The entrepreneur and technologist said last month that Tesla's cars would be able to drive themselves within only two years time.

Last September, the government announced it would finally grant women the right to drive cars this year.

Facing a tide of municipal anti-drive-thru ordinances, TDL commissioned a study last year from RWDI consultants, based in Guelph, Ont., comparing total emissions given off by customers» cars that use drive - thrus and those that use parking lots.

Waymo, the company spun out of Google's self - driving car technology, on Thursday filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Otto, a company Uber acquired last year, of stealing intellectual property.

Founded last spring, JingChi is using Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia Drive PX 2 systems to develop autonomous cars.

Last month we reached the tragic, and long - dreaded, moment in the history of self - driving cars: the death of an individual who didn't opt into using self - driving technology.

But when was the last time you drove on route 66, or any road that resembles how a car commercial describes what owning a car is going to be like?

The company had announced Project Apollo last year with the aim of helping car - makers manufacture self - driving cars faster.

For instance, last year the company defied California state regulators to run a self - driving car experiment in San Francisco.

A Tesla Model X vehicle operating in Autopilot mode slightly hit a police motorcycle in Phoenix last week, just days before Uber's self - driving car got involved in a collision.

Ford Motor Co. is experimenting with its own ride - sharing initiatives: the company last year started offering a network of shared cars in London to tap the growing market for on - demand driving.

Last month, Uber faced increasing criticism of its workplace culture and was embroiled in a lawsuit over its self - driving cars.

Uber raided Carnegie Mellon University for its best roboticists, spent $ 670 million to buy autonomous truck company Otto, and, last August, proudly started picking up Pittsburgh passengers in robot - driven cars.

Last fall, Anthony Levandowski, another Googler who works on self - driving cars, went to Nissan for a presentation that immediately devolved into a Q&A with the car company's Silicon Valley team.

The organization said the finding that 78 % of those surveyed fear traveling in a self - driving car is unchanged from last year.

That includes its ongoing technological efforts to get rid of the most costly part of its business model (the driver) via self - driving car tech; targeting 2020 for a demo of a flying car project called Uber Elevate; and, last week, announced it was pushing into the trucking space with Uber Freight.

Last week, the company's 43 active cars drove 20,354 miles autonomously, according to the documents.

Levandowski already had stepped down from his position as head of Uber's self - driving car efforts last month and was replaced by Eric Meyhofer.