Sentences with phrase «many pedestrian»

The standoff on Monday began after a white van jumped onto a sidewalk at a busy intersection in Toronto and struck a crowd of pedestrians.

Boston drivers, for instance, are notorious for ignoring pedestrians, while Florida drivers get WAY more speeding tickets than drivers in any other state.

Pedestrians walk passed signage at Cigna Corp. headquarters in Bloomfield, Connecticut, U.S., on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016.

On March 9, Musk tweeted that he is «adjusting the Boring Company plan: all tunnels & Hyperloop will prioritize pedestrians & cyclists over cars,» adding that the systems «will still transport cars, but only after all personalized mass transit needs are met.

The lone police officer who faced a tense stand - off with the man suspected of driving a van into pedestrians in Toronto is being hailed a hero for his actions.

The pedestrian sued Mendels for more than $ 3 million, but wound up getting only $ 20,000 from his insurer in a settlement.

We wind past the historic old town and modern skyscrapers, through the glossy pedestrian shopping street and a cluttered Saturday - morning market.

A pedestrian, who police say was a witness to a van striking multiple people at a major intersection in Toronto's northern suburbs, reacts in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, April 23, 2018.

As for fitness freaks — you can run the museum steps Rocky Balboa style or give Kelly Drive, a pedestrian lane running along the Schuykill River, a spin.

Boathouse Row runs parallel to the pedestrian hotspot and is a home to the clubhouses of rowers from high schools and universities all over town.

I won't talk this morning about the 13 lives that were lost, or the more than 100 who were injured, when a 22 - year - old terrorist rammed his van into a crowd of pedestrians strolling along Las Ramblas in Barcelona this summer — nor will I mention the 86 people who were killed in Nice on the evening of Bastille Day in 2016, when a mindless thug drove his cargo truck into a mass of celebrants who had gathered to watch fireworks on the Promenade des Anglais.

I won't write about the rented pickup truck that mowed them down on a pedestrian walkway and bike path, along a glistening, sun - dappled river.

Most places in Bolivia are pedestrian friendly and perfectly walkable, but when you need to travel long - distance, public transportation is cheap.

MX3D, a Dutch robotics firm, 3D printed a functional stainless steel bridge for pedestrians in Amsterdam's red light district.

More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.

On a Spring afternoon, I'm gazing out the window of an office building on the outskirts of Estonia's capital, Tallinn, watching people stroll below, when a cream - colored plastic container mounted on black wheels rounds the corner and begins maneuvering its way among the pedestrians.

In Monday's incident, a van sped into the intersection of Yonge and Finch at around 1:30 p.m. before heading south on Yonge, hopping the curb and slamming into pedestrians.

Now, in the age of SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic, the idea that a private company would launch an orbiting hotel seems almost pedestrian.

With the help of a stereo camera on the front windshield coupled with multi-range radars on the inside and outside of the car, the Mercedes E350 can detect both pedestrian and vehicle traffic in front of the car.

: When approaching a pedestrian who appears shorter than you, lift your umbrella up.

Big Data is so voluminous, the byte sizes it refers to are terms we pedestrian folk don't typically even hear — things like «petabytes,» «exabytes,» and «zettabytes.»

For example, pedestrians could access it from all corners, which communicated the idea that «every citizen was equally important,» L'Enfant biographer Scott Berg told Smithsonian.

Drive.ai, for instance, a startup that came out of Stanford's A.I. Lab, is developing a system for autonomous cars to communicate with pedestrians crossing the street.

You might have heard of the secret history of jaywalking — how car companies managed to upend the laws a century ago so that vehicles, not pedestrians, had the right of way on the roads.

«Sure, people can walk into a risky situation, but that implies that pedestrians are often at fault,» said Jonathan Matus, chief executive officer of Zendrive, a company that uses smartphone sensors to track driving behavior.

A pedestrian checks his mobile phone while walking past a Verizon Wireless store in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 15, 2015.

«I feel like legislating pedestrian distraction might give aggressive drivers a scapegoat to blame fatalities on the road with, and I'm not excited about that aspect.»

Freeways are relatively simple for the cars — no blind corners, no cyclists and no pedestrians.

The airport upgraded its ferry service, and next year it will complete construction of an $ 80 - million pedestrian tunnel.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

The mapping helps the car's computer make sense of its environment and focus on moving parts — other cars, cyclists and pedestrians.

It is 25,000 square feet in size, spans three levels, and presents the pedestrians outside with a 32 - foot - high, 22 - foot - wide neon basketball net that hangs from the top floor down to the ground level.

So things like decentralized Facebook, or the Internet of Things and sensors across all sorts of devices, to more pedestrian things, like initial coin offerings, you know.

Engineering contractor Decmil Group has been shortlisted to design and build a pedestrian bridge linked to the new Perth Stadium, adding to recent government contract wins.

What downtown Las Vegas lacks in parks and pedestrians, however, it makes up for in the singular ambition of Hsieh.

Eight people were left dead and many more injured on Tuesday after a man drove a truck into cyclists and pedestrians in lower Manhattan.

Curious pedestrians will pick up the «money» and look at the business card and see your business.

Pedestrians strolling through downtown Toronto will be well accustomed to seeing the Rogers name on stores, streets and billboards, but the moniker of Ryerson's business school is perhaps the most fitting tribute to telecom titan Ted Rogers.

The hazards are many; some of them commonplace (the car door recklessly flung open, the rogue and oblivious pedestrian darting into the sidewalk, potholes), others, well, less so.

The accident occurred Sunday evening at about 10 p.m. when an Uber self - driving vehicle struck a pedestrian on Mill Avenue, just south of Curry Road, according to the Tempe Police Department.

On such sales, the city would collect either $ 61.49 a square foot or 20 percent of the total cost of the air rights, whichever is higher, to go into an account to fund pedestrian and transit improvements for the area.

The system will also be able to register how many times a pedestrian has violated traffic rules in the city and once this number reaches a certain level, it will affect the offender's social credit score which in turn may limit their ability to take out loans from banks, Wang said.

A van ran into pedestrians on the crowded Las Ramblas street in Barcelona Thursday, killing 14 people and injuring more than 100 others.

The female pedestrian, who has been identified by police as 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg, was walking outside of a crosswalk when she was struck by the Uber self - driving vehicle.

Instead, on Tuesday, Ford (F) emphasized its existing semi-autonomous car technology including systems that automatically warn drivers about pedestrians in the roadway and potential collisions.

The next step — informing the errant pedestrians by text or Weibo instant messaging — could have the added benefit of eliminating the cost of erecting large LED screens across the cities, he said.

At Four Seasons in Bali, hotel guests are notified about what they can and can not do on Nyepi and they're told all vehicular and pedestrian traffic outside the resort is restricted.

As it turns out, a seemingly pedestrian issue was largely to blame: Chad had run out of passport paper.

For the current system installed in Shenzhen, Intellifusion installed cameras with 7 million pixels of resolution to capture photos of pedestrians crossing the road against traffic lights.

«The bottom line is our sidewalks need to be safe for pedestrians,» Herrera told Business Insider in a statement last week.