Sentences with phrase «many vehicles on the road»

«Wrapify is a great concept, and moves to market very quickly,» says Kacie Jackson, a marketing manager at Petco, who said the company had vehicles on the road in less than two weeks.

Elon Musk's company plans to have its autonomous vehicles on the road by 2018.

It's particularly discouraging that this is happening in the UK, where the team has led the way on partnerships with local groups to increase the number of wheelchair - accessible and electric vehicles on the road.

There will be 20 million autonomous vehicles on the road by 2025, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

«I think what you are finding is for relatively low investment the manufacturers can get a very high image vehicle on the road and also charge a nice price for it,» said George Peterson, president of AutoPacific, a research firm.

That's significant, he says, because historically, when utilization rates exceed 89 % trucking companies have to put more vehicles on the road — about 35,000 for every 1 % above that threshold.

In 2009, China became the largest car market in the world, while in the same year there were four million fewer vehicles on the road in the United States.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

«We would argue, that to be considered the safest vehicle on the road, it should earn a «Good» rating from the IIHS as well as a five - star safety rating from NHTSA,» Zuby said.

Today, there are more than 180,000 Tesla vehicles on the road and we've delivered more than 300 MWh of energy storage to customers in 18 countries.

He promised that the United States would have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015 and would be 80 % reliant on «clean» electricity.

«This has been weeks and weeks of those vehicles on the road for no apparent reason, and it's a huge public safety risk.

This factor has also been a deterrent in putting the vehicles on the road.

Most industry and analyst expectations are for US light vehicle volumes to increase again in 2012, underpinned by a very aged fleet of vehicles on the road in the US, reasonable flow of consumer credit for car loans, and a slowly improving US consumer.

Volvo wants its cars to be the safest vehicles on the road.

Already the world's largest electric - car market, the nation has ambitions to have 7 million such vehicles on the road by 2025.

Uber says that vehicles on the road today use off - the - shelf lidar technology from Velodyne, and that the in - house lidar the company's engineers are building was developed before Levandowski joined.

In addition, the company has hired two full - time safety and compliance professionals to monitor the fleet and ensure the company puts vehicles on the road that are always safe and productive, Sullivan says.

Did you know that most vehicles on our roads are more than 11 - years - old?

The yellow school bus is the absolute safest vehicle on the road.

To be honest I am a reasonably bad guys - guy and not much into cars and their various internal workings but I definitely have an opinion when it comes to styling and the CX - 9 is a clear winner in this category (if not one of the most attractive vehicles on the road).

«There are new levels of risks that need to be considered when there is a combination of driverless and driven vehicles on the roads.

Austin believes that Grayling could be in breach of regulation 105 of the Road Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations 1986, which makes it an offence to open the door of any vehicle on any road (or causing or permitting a door to be opened) so as to injure or endanger any person.

«It's not a cap, let's be clear, it is a pause and it does not impact the current vehicles on the road and this legislation in no way impacts the amount of drivers,» Ms. Mark - Viverito said.

In addition, we expect government to expend fewer resources on road repair and maintenance once the rail line takes off and reduce the pressure of articulated vehicles on our roads.»

Insurance firm AXA UK's head of underwriting David Williams commented: «A simple and comprehensive insurance solution is a crucial milestone in making autonomous vehicles on our roads a reality.

«We don't want to see more vehicles on the road,» she said.

Focus On (StreetsPAC article): «In twenty years we should be in a city where every vehicle on the road is a streamlined, fuel efficient necessity and our public transportation system is modernized and properly funded.»

«With this action, we are taking a careful yet balanced approach to incorporating autonomous vehicles on our roads to reduce dangerous driving habits, decrease the number of accidents and save lives on New York roadways,» Gov. Cuomo said.

«All motorists need to be vigilant and aware of other vehicles on the road, especially smaller vehicles such as motorcycles,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Last year saw a record number of vehicles on our roads, especially in rural areas where bus services have been decimated.

This is a good pick for any car or vehicle on the road.

After decades of testing, automakers are expected to put 50,000 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles on the roads in California by 2017, according to Dunwoody.

Projected carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from cars could remain level at three gigatons through 2050 despite many more personal vehicles on the road with only minor and affordable changes to existing engines, chassis and systems, according to a new report.

When I drive, because of course I am an excellent driver, I marvel at the incompetence of all the humans who are driving the other vehicles on the road.

The rising number of electric vehicles on the road is putting grid operators under pressure.

To find out what vehicles on the road are currently emitting, Drozd and colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley; Carnegie Mellon University; the University of California, San Diego; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rented 25 gasoline - powered cars, including two hybrids, from residents in the Los Angeles area.

And when you have a million electric vehicles on the road, you start to have issues with accidents and first responders.»

Should China eventually approach the number of cars per capita in the U.S., they'd see more than a billion vehicles on their roads.

The number of relevant complaints in the logs of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA] is tiny considering the number of vehicles on the road.

She is one of 11 «real customers» (as opposed to celebrities, politicians or the like) now taking the car for a trial run; GM plans to eventually have 100 such test vehicles on the road.

In 2012 carbon emissions from vehicles on the road accounted for 28 percent of the total fossil - fuel CO2 emissions for the entire country — a sizable chunk to target for reductions.

While several have fuel cell prototype vehicles on the road — Toyota and Honda are even leasing them to the public in Japan and California — they are spending upwards of $ 1 million to produce each one due to the advanced technology involved and low production runs.

POLICY MISMATCH To promote new - energy vehicles, the government has offered various incentives in recent years including tax breaks, and set targets such as having 5 million new - energy vehicles on the road by 2020 - more than 8 times the current number.

Existing U.S. power plants could provide enough juice to switch 84 percent of the 220 million American vehicles on the road from gasoline to electricity.

«We can break our dependence on oil... and become the first country to have one million electric vehicles on the road by 2015,» President Obama said in his January 2011 State of the Union address.

When the economy was in decline there were fewer other vehicles on the road, and therefore fewer opportunities for crashes.

Natural gas is cleaner - burning than gasoline, and today there are more than 150,000 compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles on the road in the U.S., most of them trucks and buses.

The Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) leads U.S. researchers and other partners in making transportation cleaner and more efficient through solutions that put electric drive vehicles on the road and replace oil with clean domestic fuels.

This is the most sophisticated, most important vehicle on the road today.