Sentences with phrase «made car and driver»

The Mazda6 was second place in the 2003 European Car of the Year awards and made Car and Driver magazine's Ten Best list for 2003.

[6] The R171 made Car and Driver's Ten Best list for 2005 and won the Canadian Car of the Year Best New Convertible award.

It became Motor Trend's Import Car of the Year and also made Car and Driver's 10 Best, plus it was introduced at the same time Toyota partnered with Dan Gurney's All American Racers to win a string of championships in IMSA sports car racing.

The Eclipse debuts in America with a turbocharged 4G63 engine and all - wheel drive technology, and makes Car and Driver's»10 Best List» from 1989 through 1992.

Dynamic engagement is what makes this car and its driver feel so alive.

The 2018 Honda Civic has made Car and Drivers 10Best for the first time.

Not exact matches

Driver loafers were historically designed with race car drivers and motorists in mind, but Cole Haan's nubuck pair were made to be seen.

The app was quick and easy to use, and the drivers proactively made sure the cleanliness of the car was first rate, and the temperature and even the music were all to my liking.

In a world of connected cars, they could help predictively maintain a car, scheduling a garage visit against its driver's personal calendar, and making sure that the mechanic has the parts they need in stock.

If you keep making driver assistance better and better, one of these days you end up with a self - driving car.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

All drivers have to do is press a button on a key fob to make the car pull in and out of tight parking spots and garages entirely on its own.

«We've now made car ownership optional on both sides of the two - sided market,» Zimmer said, explaining that now drivers and riders can use the service without owning a car.

The strength, stamina, and conditioning, combined with the exceptional physical and cognitive skills needed to consistently take a race car to the extreme edge of performance and control — that's what makes a race car driver an athlete.

«We have to navigate around the real world, develop perception and action systems for our self - driving cars, and understand, predict, and make more efficient the experience for our riders and drivers.»

Mobileye N.V., whose collision - avoidance technology has been adopted in cars made by the likes of BMW AG and General Motors Co., said on Sunday it had raised money from five investors that valued its equity at $ 1.5 billion, highlighting the market potential for driver - assistance systems.

The Model 3's 15 - inch center screen is has an impressive level of capability and functionality, the magazine said, but it's packed with menus and drivers are forced to use it «in ways that don't always make sense,» such as to adjust the car's adaptive cruise control speed.

It is compact, making it a great fit for city drivers, but also has enough room inside (and trunk space) that you don't feel like you're tooling around in a clown car.

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Though many variables can affect the cost of insurance — a driver's age, the severity and number of dings on their record, and the make and model of the car itself — where a person lives can be the biggest deciding factor of all.

Then Uber took that ingenuity further and made it possible for anyone with access to a car to become a taxi driver, using that same app mentality.

What I like is that all of the experiences we do while driving a car or truck counts towards making a safer and better driver.

Other technology firms that made it to the list are Nvidia at no. 28, which produces chips for futuristic technologies such as deep learning and driverless cars, Facebook at no. 29 for investing in Messenger and for hosting news articles on its platform, Japanese messaging app maker Line at no. 37, Coinbase at no. 40 for enabling Bitcoin payments in PayPal and Expedia, IBM at no. 46 for its work with Watson, Snapchat at no. 47 for its innovative new format, and Uber at no. 50 for its ride - sharing services and driver deliveries.

Such as: Self - driving cars have to become legal to drive without a safety driver; users will have to want to get in a self - driving Uber; and, perhaps most importantly, Uber will have to buy and trick out enough cars with self - driving technology to make it worth the investment.

Tesla also warns its drivers in the car's manual to pay attention to the road and prepare to take corrective action since the Autopilot can not always detect and make decisions and actions concerning stationary objects on its path.

As Autopilot technology continues to be developed, more advanced functionality will be made available to Tesla owners over time nearing full self - driving capabilities; however, until truly driverless cars are developed and approved by regulators, the driver is responsible for and must remain in control of their car at all times.

It's like a car maker who makes a car that if you turn the blinker on for the opposite direction of your turn, it turns into a thermonuclear bomb that takes out San Francisco and then we blame the driver and not the automaker for making such a ridiculous contraption capable of such evil.

This makes me think NASCAR should let the drivers carry guns and shoot at the other cars and drivers... Just like a daily commute to work in Texas...

If a policeman says, «I arrest you for driving too fast,» we can point to his authority to make an arrest, to you as the driver of the car, and to the automobile.

The driver is highly conscious at the time it is made, but the content of that consciousness is primarily the location and relative movements of the relevant cars.

If a car, when it breaks down, causes a nuclear explosion, you can blame the driver for not taking care of the engine — a little bit, but you also blame the stupid car company that made a car that is ABLE to break down and cause such death and destruction by its mere misuse.

The idea was that the fastest drivers and teams would have to do more overtaking and push harder throughout the race to beat the cars that didn't have to pit (remember that pit stops weren't as common at the time), making it more exciting to watch.

There are a number of reasons for this - as well as the obvious loss of downforce, by following in the wake of another car the dirty air generated causes the follower to slide around and overheat their tyres, which makes the idea of a driver dropping a couple of seconds behind a rival a more effective strategy.

With Brawn's call to make F1 cars more video game - like, and Symonds singing the plaudits of virtual environments, we're sat here wondering how long it takes before F1 drivers have to submit their gamertag rather than a race number and what's the timescale on replacing Charlie Whiting with a hologram created by Codemasters?

An updated version was used in 1990 too, making the car a two - time drivers» and constructors» championship winner.

Having such a slow driver in such a quick car would put him right in the pack, which would make for plenty of hilarious wheel - to - wheel battles and comedy spins — good for getting TV air - time and therefore great for sponsors.

Two drivers will make their IZOD IndyCar Series debut this weekend at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, headlined by Luca Filippi for Barracuda Racing and James Davison of Dale Coyne Racing.

Add on top of that the need to drive a certain way to make a strategy work, or how to deal with dirty air from other cars and you've got driver who have as much on their plates - if not more - than F1 drivers, albeit with much more disastrous consequences for getting it wrong.

This is one of the major drawbacks of gravel traps for single - seaters - not only can they cause cars to roll over, but there's also the danger of the roll hoop digging in and causing the drivers head to make contact with the ground.

Reigning champion Neel Jani, already known as one of the fastest LMP1 drivers around, will be joined in the # 1 car by Audi refugee Andre Lotterer and Bamber's team - mate from that Le Mans victory in 2015, Nick Tandy, making for an extremely potent trio of drivers.

But when that ran out of fuel, Johansson, Arnoux and Alliot all decamped onto Nelson Piquet's passing Williams, making it four drivers in / on one F1 car.

Bamber will team up with 2015 champions Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley in the # 2 car, whilst the # 1 car will be driven by Jani, Tandy and Lotterer, making for surely one of the most fearsome driver line - ups in recent years.

Shortly after that however it was also ruled that teams need to make sure the driver numbers and names are displayed prominently on the sides of the car, and where did most teams decide to put them?

Now, driver names (or three - letter abbreviations) and numbers must be 150 mm and 230 mm high respectively, and in contrasting colours to the car's livery in order to make them stand out.

He sent a letter around telling teams to make more effort into showcasing driver names and numbers on their cars, because it has become increasingly tough to tell them apart.

Earnhardt says drivers understand this and are intentionally being excessive because any damage incurred makes it difficult to properly inspect the winning car for any illegalities.

It'd be great to see teams being able to make longer videos from the track, not only of the cars lapping the circuits but behind the scenes features and interviews with drivers after they hop out of their 2017 machines for the day.

It's hoped that the faster lap times achieved by giving the cars more downforce and more grip will make the cars more exciting to watch for the fans, and more challenging for the drivers.

Teams have also seemingly made it more and more difficult to see the driver numbers and names on the cars.

With he and several other drivers out of contract at the end of the year Alonso is seeking a race - winning car, and has made it clear he'll leave McLaren if he doesn't think things will improve for next season.