Sentences with phrase «of day a driver»

These dictate how many hours over the course of a set number of days drivers may operate their vehicles and how much rest they must take.

As such, a few restrictions on the time of day a driver can operate a vehicle apply, as well as the age of passengers the teen is allowed to transport.

Not exact matches

If you keep making driver assistance better and better, one of these days you end up with a self - driving car.

«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.»

Yesterday, the ridesharing service was banned in Delhi, just days after a driver was accused of raping a passenger.

In an effort to woo drivers, Uber launched an initiative called, 180 Days of Change — a campaign that aims to make «meaningful changes and improvements» to the driving experience.

The use of Big Data has also become a key driver of innovation these days, as it involves aggregating large amounts of information and helps companies better understand their customers on a macro level.

Every day the hardware guys are losing more and more of their share of the actual value in each vehicle as the software and the sensors take over the driver's experience.

At a twice - monthly team meeting, staffers share stories of great driver - passenger interactions from the past week — say, the time one brought the other a sandwich because he texted he hadn't eaten all day.

Customers will be able to call cars with a special app at any time of day, and each vehicle will have a safety driver behind the wheel.

Uber will now let riders tip drivers as part of a 180 - day plan to make driving «more flexible and less stressful.»

Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short - term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.

When you net it all out at the end of the day, between 35 % -40 % of all the money [drivers] make goes to pay for all those services.

Von Holzhausen makes no bones about it: The Model 3's ultra-minimalist interior — completely defined by a horizontal version of the Tesla touchscreen — anticipates a day when cars won't need controls for human drivers.

I got to talking with my Uber driver, as one does, Wednesday morning, the day after an embarrassing video surfaced of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick berating an Uber driver.

This prevented at least two hours of delays each day in several routes over the two weeks of flooding without requiring staffers to call each driver.

We harness the power and scale of our global operations to deeply connect with the cities, communities, drivers, and riders that we serve, every day.

A day later, tech news site Recode reported that Eric Alexander, Uber's president of business in the Asia - Pacific region, was fired after it was learned that obtained the medical records of an Uber customer who was raped by her driver in India three years ago.

The ridesharing service was banned in Delhi today, just days after a driver was accused of raping a passenger.

Here's a selection of comments some other executives have made in the last 90 days about truck driver shortages.

According to a DHL report, drivers spend 40 % to 60 % of their day searching inside their own truck for the correct boxes to deliver next.

Unlike rival Netflix Inc, a standalone Internet TV service, Amazon's Prime video service comes bundled with the Internet retailer's two - day delivery for items purchased on the site, which costs $ 99 a year, a key driver of revenue for the company.

As a transport manager, you supervise the day - to - day activities of drivers — it could be trucking, buses, deliveries, taxis or public transit.

There are only a few things $ 5 will buy these days: a cup of coffee at my favorite overpriced coffeehouse, a bonus tip to reward an Uber driver's smile.

This group of Uber employees flew into Miami for 10 days in part for a work retreat, and in part to act as a kind of advance squad, whose duties include networking with hospitality workers, scouting venues, and recruiting Miami Uber drivers.

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

The company did not artificially restrict the number of drivers who were able to come on to the system on Valentine's Day — a particularly busy day for Uber rides — says spokesman Andrew NoyDay — a particularly busy day for Uber rides — says spokesman Andrew Noyday for Uber rides — says spokesman Andrew Noyes.

After a driver plowed through a crowd of people in Barcelona on Aug. 17, leaving 13 dead and 100 more wounded, the Dow Jones Industrial Average ended the day down about 274 points, with all 30 stocks in the index finishing in the red.

The California ruling, which was made June 3 and came to light after Uber filed an appeal Tuesday evening, noted that the company provided drivers with phones and had a policy of deactivating its app if drivers were inactive for 180 days.

For all China's great importance to Australia these days, a healthy US economy should not be underestimated as a driver of business thinking and as a trend - setter for financial markets.

She said the popularity of services like Uber has cut what taxi drivers can make during the day by about a third.

Here's a closer look at why this type of coal is so important to Teck and whether there is any likelihood that another commodity might one day unseat it as its profit driver.

According to Mr. Parker, the former Uber manager in Dallas, increasing the number of drivers on the road by 20 percent at certain hours of the day, or in a busy part of town, can rein in a large fare surge.

«Having hosted and worked alongside America's Road Team many times at my Jet Express terminal and at industry events, I can confidently say that these are some of the finest drivers and representatives in our industry,» said ATA Chairman Kevin Burch, president of Jet Express Inc. «Throughout the last few days, these professionals have demonstrated the positive image and hardworking attitude that the trucking industry is known for and I'm proud that they will represent us for the next two years and beyond.»

As part of this deal, Fair will be Uber's exclusive partner for leasing in the United States, for drivers who need a vehicle for 30 days or more.

A three - step process to anticipate and shape change, beginning with the identification of 70 + macro drivers that were refined into 8 dynamics defining the future for connected consumers, which constituted the basis for a highly immersive two - day Future Forum bringing together 10 outside experts, 13 internal stakeholders and 14 agency partners, from which a consumer - centric company vision and Future Playbook was developed around «4 Big Bets» over near -, mid - and long - term horizons.

With more network - connected sensors finding their way into cars these days, drivers are generating an unprecedented volume of digital data related to everything from the tolls they pay to the routes they prefer.

Meet the women who have built businesses around their kids» schedules If you've been part of my world for a while you'll know that I had two small children and a husband that worked 10 + hours a day as a Fedex driver when I started my current business back in 2014.

«All - day breakfast exceeded our expectations, it's driving incremental business,» said Easterbrook, adding, «all - day breakfast was the primary driver of the quarter.»

But taking drivers out of the equation would also increase the company's profits: Self - driving cars give Uber 100 percent of the fare, the company would no longer have to subsidize driver pay and the cars can run nearly 24 hours a day.

«While 180 Days was about correcting missteps of the past, we also needed to think longer term, and the obvious place to start was the Driver app.

Wearables that provide «visibility into a drivers» sleep duration and sleep quality [combined with] a PVT» offer «a pretty refined sense of what the driver is capable of doing that day,» he says.

In China in particular, the company is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a day offering discounted rides to passengers and better rates for drivers, according to two people with knowledge of the company's practices.

After all, I believe that the technology that makes all of this possible could be a revolutionary driver of innovation not only in the monetary space but in several aspects of our day to day lives from how we drive to how our data is maintained by our doctors.

Speaking of hours of service, a driver in the EU operating a vehicle that weigh at least 12 tons is only allowed to drive nine hours a day or 56 hours in a week, and they need to take a 45 minute break after 4.5 hours of work, and they need to rest for 11 hours every day.

Earnings: A Big Role This Week Before we get into the subject of recent volatility, it is important to understand the primary market driver in the days ahead — earnings.

At the time of writing, the Dollar Spot Index was down 0.03 % to $ 91.532, with today's stats and noise from the Oval Office the key drivers through the day, the U.S president now turning his attention to the Iran nuclear agreement.

So I will do everything in my power to deliver on those goals for the benefit of our organization and the millions of people — riders, drivers, eaters and couriers — and their communities that Uber serves every day.

They don't write about the millions of drivers who have an accident free day.

The South African soccer team the Kaiser Chiefs organized a national awareness day; in Burkino Faso, activists partnered with a trucking union for monitoring purposes; drivers of moto - taxis in Thailand keep watch for child sex exploitation; Nepalese trafficking survivors formed Shakti Samuaha, a nongovernmental organization that lobbies officials to make policy changes; organizations in Bangladesh have focused specifically on the taboo topic of male prostitutes and have opened shelters for exploited children.