Sentences with phrase «new vehicle testing»

This new vehicle testing laboratory and our investments in plug - in hybrids are critical to this effort, and will help spur the innovation necessary to transition away from a petroleum - based transportation sector.

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«We have a long history of testing new technology — including alternative - fuel trucks — and we are excited to be among the first to pilot this new heavy - duty electric vehicle,» a Walmart spokesperson told Fortune in an email.

This typically indicates an automaker is building the cars on production equipment to test the manufacturing process and the new vehicle.

Troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who took part in the testing in Maryland, spoke highly of the new features on the vehicle, which has been nicknamed «Dragoon» after the regiment.

Army personnel recently traveled from Germany to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for testing and training on new variants of the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle.

The new proposal aligns with the DMV's decision to allow autonomous vehicles to test without a backup driver present.

Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies test self - driving vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the vehicle makes a mistake.

A New York Times report in August said Apple was going to test its autonomous vehicle technology in a shuttle that transports the company's employees between buildings on its campus.

New features in the vehicles being tested in San Francisco include the ability to drive on hills, change lanes and share the road with bicycles.

After testing their all - electric and autonomous Chevy Bolt EV prototypes in California, Michigan, and Arizona, GM's Cruise Automation vehicles are going to New York City to further test their system in a difficult traffic environment.

It's likely this new round of crash tests could force automakers to further modify the frame and structures of the front of their vehicles so they better protected passengers from one of the deadliest collisions.

During the early phase of self - driving vehicle testing, Arizona refrained from adding new restrictions on companies testing on state roads, Biesty said, adding they did not believe any new regulations would add to safety.

TEMPE, Ariz. / DETROIT (Reuters)- Arizona officials said on Tuesday they saw no immediate need to tighten rules on the testing of self - driving cars in the state in reaction to a fatal accident involving an Uber autonomous vehicle that has focused attention on the safety of the new technology.

While other firms play catchup with a reactive approach, Hagens Berman has become a proactive pioneer — testing vehicles, effecting scientific evidence of new fraud and leading the pack against automakers who violate the law.

One of the more eye - catching announcements of the show was Nvidia unveiling its new autonomous vehicle testing software, called DRIVE Constellation.

InvestoCopy had temporarily closed their trading platform last year saying they needed to work on a new brand vehicle for their services which is to be launched in early 2016 after a period of testing.

As soon as you bring the new convertible car seat home, test out how well it fits your vehicle's backseat.

Toyota, Dodge and Ford host test - drive programs of their newest vehicles free and open to the public throughout the Chicago suburbs.

The new i - Size standard (R129), which was introduced in early 2014, has brought in additional crash testing and new technologies, which aim to ensure better safety for your child and more compatibility between car seats and vehicles.

In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications from companies interested in testing the vehicles on public roads.

The Driver & Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) is currently consulting on new measures that mark the most significant revision of the test for 20 years.

ALBANY, N.Y. — An Audi sedan drove itself and four passengers through Albany on Tuesday for 6.1 miles, marking the first - ever test of an autonomous vehicle in New York.

History was made outside the state Capitol yesterday as Audi conducted the first successful driverless vehicle test in New York.

Autonomous vehicles are being tested across the nation, and we are proud that New York will now be part of advancing this innovation,» said Cuomo press secretary Dani Lever.

«And we are going to use it also to test our fighting vehicles, other key equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian Army inventory.

By changing state law to allow automated vehicle testing and partnering with Cadillac to bring its headquarters to New York City, Governor Cuomo has positioned New York State to take the lead in the development of the driverless / hands - free technology that is rapidly transforming the automotive industry.»

«And we are going to use it also to test fire our fighting vehicles, other key equipment and weapons that require testing whenever we want to induct new weapon and equipment into the Nigerian army inventory.

The challenge for companies testing the technology has been New York's motor vehicle law requiring that a driver have both hands on the wheel of car while it is in operation.

General Motors plans to become the first company to test self - driving cars in New York City, in some of the world's worst traffic, as traditional automakers battle technology titans to take the lead in the development of autonomous vehicles.

It permits, for instance, automated, or self - driving, car makers to get another one - year window in order to test their vehicles on New York roads, with various safety - related requirements; it comes after an Uber automated car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.

BEIJING — In a gleaming high - rise here in northern Beijing's Haidian district, two hardware jocks in their 20s are testing new computer chips that might someday make smartphones, robots, and autonomous vehicles truly intelligent.

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

The program is an opportunity for consumers in California, New York State and the District of Columbia to test about 100 of the company's Equinox sports utility vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

But there are a number of complexities related to the viability of a new fuel, Fretheim added, such as the vehicle payback period, the need for new infrastructure, overcoming maintenance issues and sourcing enough of an alternative fuel to test it and to fully adopt it if it works.

«If New Shepard had been a traditional expendable vehicle, this would have been a flawless first test flight,» wrote Bezos.

The vehicle will redock with Zvezda on April 25 at 8:16 a.m. Progress 53 delivered 2.9 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the station on Nov. 29 following a four - day journey that included a «flyby» of the station to test a new lighter, revamped Kurs system.

«These profiles can produce typical driving cycles that can be used in the development of new cars, for instance as part of a virtual test drive during vehicle simulations.»

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with PTest methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Ptest,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

In essence, the new accelerated evaluation process breaks down difficult real - world driving situations into components that can be tested or simulated repeatedly, exposing automated vehicles to a condensed set of the most challenging driving situations.

Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road - ready.

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the prime contractor for RS - 25 engine work, conducted a series of developmental tests on the RS - 25 engine last year at Stennis, primarily to validate the capabilities of a new controller — or, «brain» — for the engine and to verify the different operating conditions needed for the SLS vehicle.

Empa has already tested three new lower mid-range diesel vehicles with the current exhaust gas standard Euro 6 using the new RDE procedure.

The capsule will fly on a new variant of India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, with its first test in a few months.

«When NASA develops new technology for launch vehicles like Adaptive Augmenting Control, we want to test it in order to mature the technology and build our confidence in it,» said Tannen VanZwieten, NASA Marshall's SLS flight control lead.

NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missions.

The vehicles were designed to shield astronauts from the low temperatures and vacuum of space; the new craft were tested on two monkeys and on Ham, a chimpanzee.

The space shuttle test vehicle Enterprise made its way around New York City by barge Sunday, June 3, en route to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

If the effectiveness of this principle can be confirmed through combustion tests, it will not only open up the doors to new lightweight, high - performance aerospace vehicles, but would also lead to prospects of next - generation, high - performance engines for automobiles.

This vehicle will be used for a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

The New Shepard space vehicle blasts off on its first developmental test flight over Blue Origin's West Texas Launch Site.