CEOs with
millions of miles in their accounts from expensed travel won't be affected, of course.
That, and they're astronauts who have logged
millions of miles in space.
Whether that is true is a matter for another post; but one thing that can be gleaned from such thinking is this: You likely earned
millions of miles in that time.
These banks purchase
millions of miles in bulk from airlines and hotels, then distribute them as signup bonuses and ongoing incentives for their new customers.
Although firms like Google and Uber are teaching their software by physically driving
millions of miles in the real world, they also train their algorithms using pre-recorded footage of traffic.
Not exact matches
spent 218 hours
in space, orbited the Earth a total
of 137 times, and racked up over 3.6
million miles» worth
of space travel
However, this is the first photo
of both worlds ever taken
in a single frame, when Voyager 1 was 7.25
million miles away — en route to its «grand tour»
of the solar system.
Internal Hyperloop One documents revealed last year that each
mile of track
in the U.S. could cost upwards
of $ 100
million.
Some estimates have placed the cost
of a single Hyperloop rail somewhere
in the range
of $ 120
million per
mile.
The search for the Malaysian jet has been focused on a 7.3 -
million - square -
mile area
in the southern Indian Ocean off the western coast
of Australia.
In some parts
of the country there are well - preserved, 30 - year - old Volvo 240s happily humming along with over 1
million miles on the odometer.
But the real 500 - pound gorilla
in this room is Tesla, whose vehicles have have logged 222
million miles in Autopilot mode, and gathered more than 1.3 billion
miles worth
of driving data.
Despite astronomers» long - standing interest
in it, however, it's mysterious: It's hundreds
of millions of miles away, and only a handful
of spacecraft have taken detailed images
of it.
But the U.K.'s total land area is about 94,000 square
miles whereas the U.S. has a land mass
of 3.8
million square
miles —
in other words, more than 40 times larger.
There's 8.6
million lane -
miles of road
in America, and it costs us upwards
of $ 1.5
million to build a lane.
Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems
in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens
of millions of dollars per
mile.
This year's version
of Arctic Edge was the first
of its kind
in more than three decades and covered more than 1.5
million acres on the ground and 65,000
miles of inland air space.
US - based Chevron (CVX) was fined 50
million reals ($ 28
million) by Brazil's federal government earlier this month for leaking around 2,400 to 3,000 barrels from one
of its offshore drilling platforms located 75 -
miles off the coast
of Brazil's iconic beaches
in Rio de Janeiro.
With nearly 2.5
million miles of oil, gas and chemical pipelines crisscrossing the country, intrusions into control systems could do more than disrupt deliveries, said Andrew R. Lee, a cybersecurity expert at the law firm Jones Walker
in New Orleans.
The cars have driven over 1.8
million miles in autonomous mode as
of July.
The Deepwater Horizon spill released 3
million gallons
of oil into the Gulf, which eventually covered over 1,300
miles of coastline
in Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Florida and Mississippi, taking a severe environmental and economic toll on the region.
The company has another $ 1.9 billion worth
of renovations and new projects
in the pipeline: Some 100
miles to the southwest
of Roosevelt Field, Simon recently wrapped up a $ 200
million overhaul and expansion
of the King
of Prussia mall — adding space for 50 more stores
in what's already the second - largest mall
in the U.S.
This database
of more than 100
million fingerprints is located
in a huge «data campus»
in Clarksburg, West Virginia, about 250
miles west
of the main FBI headquarters
in Washington, DC.
Chrisomalis clocks about 150,000
miles a year (and roughly 2
million total thus far)-- much
of them spent traveling between the company's New York headquarters and its brewing facilities
in Nara, Yamagata, and Kyushu, Japan.
County and municipal officials presented two sites that they believe could serve as viable locations for the e-commerce giant: the sprawling Chester City waterfront and nearly 1
million square feet
of open and redevelopable land
in Middletown Township, seven
miles away.
Google already has a fleet
of 48 robot cars that have clocked
in more than 2
million miles on private tracks, highways and roads across the U.S.
That it happened to Uber seems to be a bit
of bad luck blended with hubris, adds Brauer, noting that
in some 2.5
million miles and years
of testing the most that has happened to Google's autonomous cars are low - speed bumper dings.
After arm - twisting by Gov. Ann W. Richards, who had lobbied to keep Apple from going to another state, Mr. Hays joined two other commissioners to approve nearly $ 1
million in tax incentives to Apple
in return for the company's agreeing to build an office complex
in this suburban county a few
miles north
of Austin.
Whitefish has only won two small federal contracts
in Arizona with the Department
of Energy: a $ 172,000 deal to replace metal poles and install 3
miles of wiring, and a $ 1.3
million contract to revamp sections
of a 4.8 -
mile transmission line.
UK authorities with the Information Commissioner's Office raided the offices
of Cambridge Analytica, a shady election - data firm that allegedly partnered with an app to take advantage
of mile - wide loopholes
in Facebook policies and run off with 50
million users» data, on Friday.
«By compiling
millions of accident - free
miles, serving hundreds
of hours
in their communities and articulating the passion they have for their careers as truck drivers, these new captains are excellent examples
of the professionalism that's become a hallmark
of our industry.»
IEnova, Sempra Energy's subsidiary
in Mexico, announced it's investing about $ 130
million in a marine terminal that will receive, store and deliver gasoline and diesel fuel at its facility a few
miles north
of Ensenada.
When Thomas Jefferson became president, he made the Louisiana Purchase
of almost a
million square
miles in order to advance a citizen - property - holder «empire
of liberty.»
It's about $ 20
million per
mile to build HTT's version
of the Hyperloop, according to Ahlborn — a fraction
of the current cost
of building high - speed rail
in the U.S.
Barrick Gold cut its 2014 copper forecast to 410
million to 440
million pounds, from previous guidance
of 470
million to 500
million pounds due to a partial collapse
of the main conveyor at its Lumwana
mile in Zambia.
Some two
million of those
miles were logged
in 2017 — the same amount recorded
in the previous seven years.
FAIRHOPE, ALA. — Colliers International has arranged both the equity and construction financing for The Retreat at Fairhope Village, a $ 38
million apartment development
in Fairhope, roughly 20
miles southeast
of Mobile.
Harvey, which came ashore on August 25 as the most powerful hurricane to hit Texas
in more than 50 years, has killed an estimated 50 people, displaced more than 1
million and damaged some 200,000 homes
in a path
of destruction stretching for more than 300
miles.
PLYMOUTH, MICH. — Alliant Credit Union has provided a $ 3.5
million loan for the refinancing
of a 41,400 - square - foot industrial property
in Plymouth, about 25
miles west
of Detroit.
CHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP, MICH. — Bernard Financial Group has arranged a $ 4.8
million loan for the refinancing
of a 145,063 - square - foot industrial property
in Chesterfield Township, about 30
miles north
of Detroit.
Because there are approximately 200
million of them globally and they emit more pollution per
mile than a car (~ 10x more
in fact).
Royal LePage Burloak Real Estate Services sales rep Paolo Zulian recently completed a
million -
mile rowing challenge
in support
of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation.
In a blog post on Medium Friday, chief technology officer Chris Urmson announced that effective immediately he was leaving the team after shepherding Google's pioneering effort through seven years and 1.8
million miles of road testing.
At the time
of the incident, Tesla said that it was the first crash involving Autopilot
in roughly 130
million miles of driving
in which the technology was
in control.
One
of the most advanced if controversial efforts is being pushed by electric automaker Tesla, whose semi-autonomous Autopilot feature has logged some 100
million miles but has also resulted
in a death
of a Florida Tesla owner, which regulators are investigating.
Tesla claims it to be so, showing that tens
of thousands
of clients all over the world have banked more than 100
million miles in semi-autonomous driving until the unfortunate accident
of Brown.
The Calgary, Alberta - based company reached $ 176
million consent decree with U.S. regulators
in 2016 that required inspections
of additional pipelines
in Enbridge's Lakehead network, a web extending some 2,000
miles across seven states.
Nearly 1
in 3
million of use a credit card just to take advantage
of the cash, points or
miles our purchases earn.
CARPENTERSVILLE, ILL. — Realty Metrix Commercial has brokered the $ 6.8
million sale
of Spring Hill Market Place
in Carpentersville, 40
miles northwest
of Chicago.
Nvidia, a hardware firm whose graphic processing units (GPUs) have seen booming sales as a result
of the rise
of deep learning, lists uses on its website that range from Adobe's DeepFont, which identifies the fonts used
in an image, to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which detects gravitational waves
millions of miles away
in real time.