Sentences with phrase «miles driven in your car»

And to be fair, he admits to feeling completely at sea in the corners during the few miles he drives in the car and expresses a wish for somewhere with a smidge of run - off (like the Russian Steppe) to get to know it.

AND they also give you $ 0.01 for each mile you drive in a car that you enroll.

For example, you could focus on reducing the miles you drive in your car in order to not only save on gas, but also to qualify for a low mileage policy and save money on your premium.

Not exact matches

In a sport that requires athleticism, skill, preternatural spatial awareness... and the ability to look past the inherent risk of driving a race car at 200 miles per hour and still perform at the highest level, he talked about his injury.

He got in his car, which he now refers to as his «test lab,» and drove nearly 15,000 miles across the United States.

«In order to move autonomous driving toward reality, testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled than any combination of research facilities could support.»

They can dump 150 miles of drive time into your car in an hour 4.

Backup human drivers in Uber's self - driving cars had to take over about once every mile as of March 8, according to documents obtained by Recode (Uber doesn't make its data publicly available).

According to documents filed with the state of California, Waymo's human drivers had to take control from the automated system (called «disengagement») once for every 5,000 miles its cars drove in 2016.

Prior to joining Tufts in 2008, Axelrod was head of capital management at Lehman — where he says his experience was «like driving a car at 85 miles per hour, knowing that's probably too fast, but not fully appreciating the danger.»

Most people don't think much about all the time they spend in their cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.

While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously tested a fleet of self - driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more than 700,000 miles of robotic driving.

The researchers asked participants to drive different cars at 25 miles per hour or less around a 2.7 - mile track in Salt Lake City.

The cars have driven over 1.8 million miles in autonomous mode as of July.

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.

Four of the automaker's self - driving cars traveled the 360 miles between Paris and Bordeaux, France in October.

Seventy years later, Carnegie Mellon University's Navlab project «No Hands Across America» drove 3,100 miles across the country in a semi-autonomous car that did all the steering while the driver did the accelerating and braking.

«Uber has already driver 3 million miles in autonomous mode and given 50,000 trips,» he said, on the pilots that are going on in the US with self - driving cars.

In the way that we know that a car pulling up behind a stopped garbage truck is probably going to change lanes to get around it, having been built with 700,000 miles of driving data has helped the Google algorithm to understand that the car is likely to do such a thing.

This is only the second time since late December 2016 that its cars have driven more than 20,000 miles in a week.

Google's cars have driven over 1.8 million miles with test drivers in the front seat.

The miles driven between instances the car did something it wasn't supposed to do has dropped from more than four miles in January to less than two miles as of last week.

Uber's cars had driven more than 20,300 miles in autonomous mode in just that seven - day period ending on March 8, according to the documents.

Ford, which only has two cars on the road in California, drove a total of 590 miles, just in March.

Tesla's cars amassed about 130 million miles using the autopilot feature before the first autonomous - driving fatality occurred in May.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

As much as this shift might decrease the number of total cars in use, it would increase the miles driven for each vehicle, which would lead to more wear and tear and quicker turnover.

We reached the 1.5 mile marker and drove through a long Roman - like road with farms either side and, in the distance tall hills towering over the car.

From a single chocolate bar perspective, one 200g dark chocolate bar is equivalent to driving your car 4.9 miles (about 8 km here in Canada).

But in the morning he changed his mind again, got in the car and drove 90 miles before turning around.

Instead of getting in the car, driving to the store sometimes miles away, walking around the shop looking for the item, purchasing it and driving all the way home taking a few hours in the process, we can literally hop on our PC's or tablets and in much less time (minutes) we can achieve the same things, even more.

To get home to Charlotte, I have a 339 - mile drive, which, with my two daughters in the car, translates into approximately 426 hours.

A conventional lawn mower pollutes as much in an hour as 40 late model cars (or as much as as much air pollution as driving a car for 100 miles).

A typical 3.5 horsepower gas mower, for instance, can emit the same amount of VOCs — key precursors to smog — in an hour as a new car driven 340 miles, say industry experts.

In fact, the authors wrote, «For one child, over two and a half years, these impacts are roughly comparable with driving a car between 1,300 and 2,200 miles.»

We have logged fifty hours in the car and driven 2700 miles across the great U S of A with our four little girls.

Rosi, for instance, testified that he told a woman in labor to crouch on all fours in the back seat of her car while a family member drove her 75 miles an hour down the Edens Expressway from her Mundelein home to Weiss Memorial Hospital on Chicago's North Side, about an hour away.

The investigation also found that Ponte, in violation of city ethics rules, drove his city - issued car 18,500 miles on trips to and from coastal Maine and billed taxpayers for gas and tolls.

He got into trouble for spending 90 days at his home in Maine last year, driving his city car 18,500 miles there and back at taxpayer expense.

The unanimous resolution, briefly discussed during a Town Board meeting on Thursday, June 1, authorized Town Clerk Suzanne Reavy to submit the official request to the Commissioner of Public Works for Ulster County to begin the process of seeking the state's take on the residential streets, where some homeowners say cars frequently drive at dangerous speeds because other than a 30 mph sign covering a stretch of Brabrant Road slightly over half a mile long, there are no indications of a speed limit on any of the roads in question.

Ten miles away at Halloran's home in northern Queens, agents drove up in four unmarked cars and spread out to cover front and back entrances before raiding the councilman's place.

In the real world, there is a car fatality for every 100 million miles driven.

Those modifications include stop — start (idle - off) systems in which the engine shuts down when the car is stopped during driving; low rolling - resistance tires (which are harder and thus less flat, reducing friction); variable valve timing for engines, which increases gas consumption efficiency; and fuel economy computers or displays to encourage eco-driving, such as such as those in the Toyota Prius, which show miles per gallon averages for that moment, hour, week or month, or when riding downhill, so that drivers are more aware of how their driving impacts fuel efficiency.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

Participants drive a 12 mile loop of Nottingham in an instrumented on - road car, this route is also programmed into a high fidelity motion based simulator meaning participants can then drive an identical route in the simulator.

But once new cars warmed up, they had to be driven 100 to 300 miles to match the levels that came out in the first 30 seconds of the engine turning on.

For example, most people feel that traveling 400 miles in an airplane is riskier than driving 400 miles in a car.

But fuel cell advocates point out that given the space available in a car frame and the laws of thermodynamics, today's batteries can only provide a limited driving range — 40 miles (65 kilometers) for GM's own Chevrolet Volt — before requiring a recharge, such as by the gasoline motor in a full hybrid like the Toyota Prius.

In only two weeks of driving, the district coordinator of science for the Port Chester, N.Y., public school system has driven at least 600 miles (965 kilometers) on the car and her fuel cell Equinox has gotten as much as 191 miles (307 kilometers) on its three full tanks (each holding slightly more than four kilograms, or 8.8 pounds, of compressed hydrogen gas).

A fleet of 100 cars would have to drive 275 million miles without failure — approximately 12.5 years of round - the - clock driving at 25 miles per hour — to meet the safety standards of today's vehicles in terms of deaths.