Sentences with phrase «like rheostats»

There's this whole other stuff, the other 95 percent of the genome, that acts like rheostats — you slide this thing up and down, you get more or less of this protein.

As it's been for at least the last three or four generations, as technology has allowed Porsche to manage boost more like a rheostat than an on / off toggle, the Turbo capital T remains among the ultimate bi-modal GTs on earth, regardless of price.

Where Toyota's older generation electric power - steering systems made a kind of whirring sound and felt like a rheostat, this Camry's steering offered a good weight and no odd motor sounds.

Not exact matches

There are a few quirks to get used to — the brake pedal isn't a pedal, it's a touch - sensitive, pyramid - shaped rubber button where pressure, not pedal travel, equals stopping power; the feedback - free, hydraulic rack - and - pinion steering is as disconnected and consistent as a rheostat, and it feels like that of no other car on the planet — but the sharp - yet - pillowy ride and handling combination is almost supernatural.