There are many little tech upgrades that women can do to get
more from their cars.
Now that's no bad thing, because the balanced and agile R8 is the most driver - focused machine the brand builds, but we expected
more from a car aimed so squarely at enthusiasts and that makes such a big play of its rear - wheel - drive underpinnings.
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And indeed, there was a way to get
more from the car, in the form of the Alpina B12.
By 2012, nearly all 87 million of them will be of driving age and they will be looking for much
more from a car than simple transportation — entertainment, a social space, personalization and flexibility,» said Campbell.
I want that in a refrigerator, but I'd like a little
more from my car.
Obviously nobody should expect
more from this car.
You expect
more from a car because it's a car but you never compare the two as if they are in the same category.
Not exact matches
There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even
more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing
more into making
car parts
from plants.
Though headquarters balked, Tesla in China was soon encouraging fleet sales orders of 100 or
more cars from car - rental agencies and institutions, to jump - start demand.
The studio has two
more big Marvel releases (Guardians of the Galaxy 2 and Thor: Ragnarok) as well as a live - action version of Beauty and the Beast, two new movies
from Pixar Animation Studios (including
Cars 3), and a fifth installment in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise (two of the first PotC films grossed
more than $ 1 billion apiece).
Eastern Canadian refineries geared to light grades are buying
more cheap crude
from North Dakota and Texas in place of costly crude they were previously buying
from Algeria and the U.K. (How do you suppose those rail
cars ended up in Lac Megantic?)
Additionally, self - driving
car technology will be so good that these robotic automobiles will posses driving skills that «will be indistinguishable
from humans except that robot drivers will be safer and
more predictable than a human driver with less than one year's driving experience.»
Add in productivity gains and fuel savings
from more efficient travel, and a switch to fully automated
car fleets could save the U.S. economy a staggering US$ 1.3 trillion a year, Morgan Stanley estimates.
Semiconductor companies such as Nvidia are benefiting
from super trends including Bitcoin, self - driving
cars, smartphones and
more.
Black
car drivers get paid less and their business faces far
more competition
from other Uber services.
Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also
more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts
from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the
car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting
from sudden temperature changes.
Instead they dropped 13.4 %
from last year's total to only $ 121.3 million, even though 14 %
more cars went through the auction this year.
He gets
more business during the holidays
from people who want their
cars to look spiffy when they visit friends and family.
From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving
cars, the country could save
more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel,
more free time, etc..
From medical diagnosis to self - driving
cars, artificial intelligence continues to become
more integrated in our daily lives.
The blueprint at that time entailed building a sports
car, then continually reinvesting the cash
from those models to build
more affordable versions.
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Authorities have described Baratov as an «international hacker - for - hire» who hacked
more than 11,000 webmail accounts
from around 2010 until his March 2017 arrest and used the money he made — roughly $ 1.1 million at about $ 100 per hacking victim — to finance a $ 650,000 home and fancy
cars, including a Lamborghini and Aston Martin.
And of the LC 500h, he wrote: «The LC 500h continues my enthusiasm for Toyota's hybrid systems,
from the Prius through the Lexus version of that
car, the CT 200h, to this near - halo vehicle, which is
more or less intended to give the BMW i8 a run for its money without tripping into supercar territory.
Increases in emissions
from air and sea transport will
more than offset the savings
from passenger
cars unless new technologies can somehow make the same kind of impact on them as Elon Musk et al. have had on the
car industry.
As
more consumers turn away
from car ownership, the shift has produced a lot of humdrum offerings
from places like Zipcar and Enterprise CarShare.
A
more conservative estimate comes
from Jeremy Carlson, an analyst with IHS Automotive, who estimates 11.5 million self - driving
cars will be sold by 2030.
Microsoft's critical advantage is that in our new connected world, where we get into strangers»
cars, invite strangers to stay in our homes and buy things
from strangers all over the world, nothing matters
more than trust.
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The company had found that American tastes were changing away
from big, boxy sedans to
more nimble and efficient European
cars.
Take it
from Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group, who has seen many of his business ventures, including Virgin Cola, Virgin Cosmetics, Virgin
Cars and
more fail.
And the competition looks a lot
more like dodge»em
cars than the see - saw because: (a) they're coming at you
from every direction, not in a linear or direct fashion, and (b) their approaches, offerings and multi-channel delivery systems are exploding.
Looking ahead to 2030, China is expected to have a mind - boggling 1 billion people —
more than three times the current U.S. population — enjoying a middle class lifestyle filled with middle class things,
from cars to designer clothes to electronics and appliances.
Driverless
cars can track everything
from what times people leave for work to which roads they take to the location of other carpools — data that would only make the algorithm
more efficient.
More broadly, Google could use insights
from its satellite data to improve its search results, hone its Google Now personal - assistant software, and enhance the navigation capabilities of its self - driving
cars.
A place in the sun Photovoltaic (PV) panels installed throughout the campus divert
more than 600 metric tons of carbon each year, equivalent to removing 125
cars from the road annually.
While rumors about a potential merger between the electric
car maker and consumer electronics giant have swirled for years, a new Bloomberg report suggests that Tesla has recruited at least 150 employees
from Apple —
more than any other company, including competing
car firms.
DiMartino Booth mentioned the consumer confidence report out Tuesday, which didn't show a real change in people's plans to buy homes or
cars despite low unemployment and
more money in pockets
from gas savings.
Breakfast sandwiches
from fast - food outlets are
more popular too, since it's possible to scarf them down in the
car on the way to work.
In response to Trump's moves, Beijing threatened to impose tariffs of its own on
more than 100 U.S. goods, ranging
from soybeans and
cars to whiskey, tobacco, chemical products, and brewing and distillation dregs.
More than 450 million Chinese use Alibaba to buy everything
from socks to
cars; $ 547 billion worth of merchandise was bought and sold on those platforms in the fiscal year that ended March 31.
The restrictions, which prevented foreign
car makers
from owning
more than a 50 percent share of any local venture, will be lifted incrementally over the next four years.
«People now expect
more and
more humanity
from cars, rather than just treating it as a tool,» explained Guangzhou Automobile Group (gnzuf) vice president and head of design, Zhang Fan.
Along with these kinds of changes, and the growing popularity of autonomous driving, the consistent design of services and experiences
from within the
car and beyond will become much
more important to
car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai - based design director of BMW Group's (bmwyy) global creative consultancy Designworks.
There are
more than 8.4 billion internet - enabled devices,
from refrigerators and doorbells to wearable fitness monitors and prototypical self - driving
cars.
Artificial intelligence has quickly become part of our daily routine — it powers everything
from simple features like automatic image tagging on Facebook and purchase prediction on Amazon to
more complex systems like smart
cars and connected homes.
A commodities boom has driven the Canadian dollar
from a 62 cents US low up to parity, vaporizing any labour cost advantage we previously enjoyed over the U.S. and changing the structure of the economy; at the margin, a Canadian worker adds far
more to our economy by extracting resources than by building
cars.
Noting that Google's leadership greenlighted the autonomous idea «before a time when anybody thought this would be thing,» Krafcik — who now looks less like the auto executive he once was and
more like the forever cool keyboard player in a 1970s progressive rock band, goateed and with styled gray hair and a trimly fitted blue suit — stressed that Google understood
from the beginning the need to partner with
car companies and early on sought to imagine how that collaboration might work.