Sentences with phrase «of cars on the road»

Over 10 percent of interstate highway deaths involve people who are outside of their cars on the road or shoulder.

If we reached... 90 percent of the cars on the road, the benefits would rise to some $ 447.1 billion a year.»

After all, while pipelines may fuel many of the cars on the road today, the future is a one - way street — and there's no question which direction it's headed.

That may sound like a lot, but the problem is that that number of cars on the road will have doubled by then to 2 billion.

The number of cars on the road is expected to decrease by 135 million globally as car sharing and public transportation improve.

Del Vecchio's team has already tested its system on specially adapted Lexus sedans — one step, she says, toward the day when most of the cars on the road will be machine driven.

They report that in 2011, Alberta coal power plants produced over 40 megatonnes of CO2: «the same amount produced by roughly half of all cars on the road in Canada today.»

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) expects to have 1 million of its cars on roads by 2020.

that's like doubling the number of cars on the road.»

Like the idea behind freeways, the Boring Company's proposal misses a fundamental principle in reducing traffic: limiting the number of cars on the road.

If 1/4 of the cars on the road in the US were all electric, we'd pay less to drive plus a whole lot less on repairs.

and although i do nt anymore, i have lived quite a long time on Long Island, and am fully aware of not only the massive amount of cars on the roads, but also the massive amount of crap drivers behind the wheels...

«There's a carpooling feature that they offer, that could possibly even reduce the number of cars on the road and reduce the cost.

Auto industry experts predict that more than 50 percent of cars on the road by 2020 will use a relatively new type of fuel - efficient engine.

The most direct is that the HOV - lane policy, when in effect, reduced the overall number of cars on the roads by encouraging car - sharing — and the ensuing, post-HOV conditions simply increased overall traffic levels everywhere.

«Right now, we have a lot of cars on the road with just one passenger,» says Roorda.

The government limits the number of cars on the roads by means of an elaborate system that has the effect of making cars expensive (a very reasonable goal, as those who have been in a Bangkok traffic jam can attest).

Beijing plans to limit the total number of cars on the road to 5.6 million this year, with the number allowed to rise to 6 million by 2017.

«There are a lot of cars on the road that people are using, like the Ford F - 250 Super Duty, that are fashion statements,» says DeCicco.

The shift back to fossil fuels, combined with rapid growth in the number of cars on the roads (see «Fuelling Brazil's transport boom»), has worsened city smog and caused emissions in the transport sector to spike at about 170 million tons of CO2 in 2011, up from less than 140 million tons in 2008.

@AnoE it is also worth considering the «yet» in this answer - electric cars are still relatively new, and a tiny minority of the cars on the road at least here in the USA.

Let me back that up, I live in India and and 98 % of the cars on the roads are manual.

But I can't think of any car on the road today that makes me want to drive as hard as the Evo does.

Most of the cars on the road are appliances, after all, and the people driving them just trying to get to work, to school, to the kids, back home.

That brings the total number of affected cars in the U.S. to 68.8 million or more than a quarter of the cars on the road.

Obviously the same can be said about car buyers, but there's a lot of advantages of a manual transmission that not many people take into consideration, which is why the majority of cars on the road have an automatic transmission.

Most of all, though, the S550 Cabriolet, and all the S - Class variants, delivers what I consider the best ride quality of any car on the road today, even the ultraluxury models.

It looks good with the top down, handles unbelievably, is faster than 90 percent of cars on the road, and comes in cheaper than cars with half the power.

Current statistics show that a large percentage of all cars on the road have a negative history.

Jaguar's Adaptive Dynamics system actively controls vertical body movement, roll and pitch rates by continuously monitoring driver inputs and the attitude of the car on the road, adjusting damper rates accordingly up to 500 times a second to optimise stability.

It cuts a very distinct figure among the hodgepodge of cars on the road today, with a particularly nice roofline.

The 2000 LeSabre has one of the stiffest bodies of any car on the road, and you can feel it.

It offers one of the most appealing exterior packages of any car on the road, with a suspension configuration that is just short of competition grade.

The system continuously monitors driver inputs and the attitude of the car on the road, adjusting damper rates accordingly up to 500 times a second to optimise stability.

It might not offer performance that will rip your face off, but a coupe with an available 278 - horsepower V - 6 and a six - speed manual transmission is still more fun than 90 percent of the cars on the road.

I'd say it's probably more engaging than, 60 percent of the cars on the road.

When installed together, they create a unified body design that is starkly unique from the rest of the cars on the road in Minneapolis.

It aims to crack down on uninsured drivers by matching up the database of cars on the road with insured drivers.

Delhi had a Metro line, some of the bars in Bombay cost more than in Georgia and there were lots of cars on the road.

It is worth noting that a Tesla vehicle is over five times less likely to experience a fire than the average gasoline car and that there have been zero serious injuries or deaths for any reason ever, fire or otherwise, in a Model S. Over the course of more than 100 million miles driven in almost every possible terrain, weather and crash conditions, the Tesla Model S has consistently protected its driver and passengers, achieving the best safety track record of any car on the road.

This would be a fair way to encourage a reduction of cars on the road, to increase revenues for bridge, road, and transit system improvements, and to fight Global Warming.

«To put this in perspective, over the past several decades, 10 percent of the cars on the road have been responsible for the majority of automotive exhaust pollution,» said David Allen, chemical engineering professor at the Cockrell School and principal investigator for the study.

We're encouraging densification and also encouraging all modes of active transportation, but we've done nothing to reduce the number of cars on the road,» she said.

Out of the total number of cars on the road, I suspect that in America the proportion owned by people without parking is pretty small.

And a report last year found that the vast majority of cars on the road were not built to handle higher ethanol levels.

Another example: designing a neighborhood to be walkable will reduce the number of cars on the road, but it will also increase the health of residents and help those who can't afford a car.

Businesses are also moving forward: Auto company General Motors announced it will transition to producing only electric vehicles; 100 of the world's most influential businesses are creating a huge demand for renewable energy; and ten of the world's largest companies have launched a global campaign to expand corporate electric vehicle use and charging infrastructure (a big deal when you consider that about half of the cars on the road belong to companies).

A functional ride - sharing service alone could put a huge dent in carbon emissions, simply by reducing the amount of cars on the road.

In 2012, the EPA bolstered the standards, requiring all new fleets of vehicles to get 54.5 miles per gallon, on average, by 2025 — a threshold fewer than 4 percent of cars on the road today would meet.

Despite all the media attention paid to some accidents, which are inevitable when you have thousands of cars on the road, it looks like Tesla customers are quite satisfied with their electric cars.