Sentences with phrase «of piloting a car»

And as anyone who has experienced the Turbo from behind the wheel can attest, there is the additional pleasure of piloting a car that commands the instant attention and admiration of all who see it.

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On Wednesday, Uber's self - driving cars hit the streets of Pittsburgh, as part of a pilot program available to up to 1,000 passengers.

The pilot, in which Lyft users will be able to hail a self - driving car from the app, is expected to take place in Boston by the end of the year.

Scott Galloway, NYU Stern School of Business professor, discusses Amazon's new pilot program to deliver packages inside certain cars.

Of course, Uber is also outfitting its own fleet of self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purposOf course, Uber is also outfitting its own fleet of self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purposof self - driving cars and is conducting pilot programs in Pittsburgh and Arizona for that purpose.

BMW has announced it wants to build a crash - proof car, and, at the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, I rode in a self - driving BMW i3, sitting in the passenger seat of a driverless sedan while it piloted itself down a simple short course — maybe 100 feet long.

At the time, GM also announced plans for two car - sharing and ride - hailing pilot programs to help test its hardware and software products, and gain a better understanding of the user experience.

But a world piloted by cars under Cruise's control would have saved me from two heartstoppingly close calls in the span of a single day.

Uber was forced to shutter its self - driving pilot in San Francisco last December just a week after launching, when the DMV revoked the registration of 16 Uber self - driving cars for lacking the proper permits.

Khosrowshahi also briefly touched on the company's driverless car pilot program as well as the ongoing investigation after one of Uber's self - driving cars struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Ariz. last month.

Daily, weekly and monthly car rentals from Hertz are now available as part of a pilot program for Lyft drivers in Las Vegas, said Oliver Hsiang, Lyft's vice president of partnerships.

And since the launch of its pilot, Google's autonomous cars have logged 1.3 million miles without any driver assistance.

Uber is putting the brakes on its driverless car pilot program after one of its self - driving cars got into a high speed crash in Arizona.

It has just launched a real - world pilot of self - driving cars in Pittsburgh — though it's not on par with Google technologically — and got one of the original members of Google's self - driving project when it acquired autonomous trucking company Otto.

However, Speth left open the possibility of new investment in Britain such as an electric battery and car plant if the conditions, including pilot testing and support from science, were right.

Visionaries have long dreamed of leaving the road for the skies, and the idea of a flying car has fascinated pilots as well as Hollywood screenwriters (think Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Back to the Future, and The Jetsons).

ALIJAH VERA - TUCKER Bishop O'Dowd - Oakland — Football — Senior USC - bound OL was the personal pilot car for sophomore tailback Austin Jones, who rushed for just shy of 2,000 yards and 27 TDs for the 15 - win, CIF Div.

In a science - fiction short story of the 1950s, The Marching Morons by Cyril M. Kornbluth, a benevolent government, aware that its citizens are devoted to excitement, arranges for their cars (automatically piloted, of course, for this is sci - fi, and their speed restricted to a decorous 40 mph) to evoke the sensation of Formula One speedsters.

The DOT this morning announced it would place concrete barriers along the stretch of road where the family's car, a Honda Pilot, veered off the street and into a non-public area of the Bronx Zoo.

New York is starting to accept applications for testing driverless or automated cars, part of a 12 - month pilot program approved in the state budget.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

In April, the state passed a budget agreement that included legislation that allowed for the testing of autonomous cars through a pilot program.

Reducing fuel use, emissions and «havoc» A Department of Transportation pilot project underway in Ann Arbor, Mich., has already collected 7 billion safety messages exchanged among 3,000 cars, trucks and transit buses equipped with vehicle - to - vehicle (V2V) and vehicle - to - infrastructure (V2I) technology.

China's program, known as «10 Cities, 1,000 Vehicles,» planned to select 10 pilot cities every year from 2010 to 2012 and promote 1,000 units of clean cars in each city.

In a separate pilot at a small filling station in the northern port of Haifa, about a dozen cars have been running for months on various mixtures of gasoline diluted with methanol.

There's a strong case to be made for remotely piloted planes and self - driving cars — but letting a machine drive flies in the face of human nature

Developed by Traveller's Tales, the studio behind Sonic R, Sonic 3D and countless Lego titles, Sonic's level pack for Lego Dimensions includes Sonic himself and 2 vehicles to pilot; his car from All - Stars Racing and the Tornado of Sonic 2 fame.

Dwayne Johnson is protagonist Ray, a hotshot helicopter pilot with the L.A. fire department who demos his bona fides in the opening sequence, involving the rescue of a blonde in a low - cut top whose car is jammed into the rock wall on one side of a deep chasm.

Baby Driver is an action flick that features a young savant of a car driver known as Baby (Ansel Elgort) who is hired by an ambitious crime boss (Kevin Spacey) to pilot the getaway car for Doc's heists.

But there are many times where my experience showed otherwise, especially when the driving line piloted exactly half of my car through a massive puddle on the side of the track, causing me to spin out to the tune of four or five full rotations.

A new clip from Marvel Studio's upcoming Black Panther shows the tech - savvy inventor helping T'Challa escape his pursuers by remotely piloting a high - tech car from the safety of her laboratory.

Fort Sumner Municipal Schools students who took part in a Zune media player pilot study used the technology to study during long bus and car rides and to access study materials including video, audio, and Microsoft PowerPoint slides in their rural part of New Mexico.

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Yes, these cars are similar in body style and price to the Mazda roadster, and each one is also quite good to drive in it's own right, but none come close to the pure driving bliss of piloting a Miata.

Surprisingly, the tyres chosen for the Valkyrie aren't some entirely new type designed to Adrian Newey's exacting requirements, but a set of Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2s — a tyre we're more than familiar with from dozens of other sports and performance cars.

The majority of the entrants are LMP2 cars, powered by a Gibson spec engine, and piloted by more than a handful of wankers and bankers.

Super Cruise will let Cadillac CT6 drivers pilot their new cars hands - off so long as conditions are right and the system can find the middle of the car's lane, on about 160,000 miles of limited - access highway in the U.S. and Canada, mapped by GM and its high - definition mapping partner, Geo Digital.

The 3.2 FSI Quattro automatic is the priciest, most potent, and most sophisticated version of the new model range at launch — especially when it is fitted, as was our test car, with high - tech options such as Drive Select, dynamic steering, switchable dampers, lane assist (departure warning), side assist (rearview blind spot detection), adaptive cruise control, adaptive headlights (swiveling xenons), and eighteen - inch wheels shod with 245 / 40 YR -18 Michelin Pilot Sport tires.

The Lotus - tuned suspension, combined with a 45/55 percent weight distribution and sticky nineteen - inch Michelin Pilot Sport tires, makes the Aileron an easy, almost relaxing car to drive fast, although the lack of any stability or traction control tends to dampen one's temptation to explore its absolute limits on public roads.

His latest venture in the world of action sports is piloting Subaru's WRX STI rally car in Rally America, as well as a specially tuned Subaru WRX STI in RedBull's Global Rally Cross.

Indy icon Wilbur Shaw piloted this Maserati to his second and third victory in 1939 and 1940, making this car one of the most successful cars in Indy's history.

The safety car made its debut at the Villajoyosa Rally on April 1st, and will continue to serve for the remainder of the season; World TT champion Marc Blázquez will pilot the car.

If you like the experience of a front - wheel drive car, the 308 offers all the sensations you'll be familiar with — its passive dampers, mechanical locking differential, torsion beam rear axle and Michelin Pilot Super Sport tyres combine to make a car that behaves in such a predictable manner.

The whole point of a performance car is to enjoy driving, to revel in the sensation of just piloting the car through turns.

A brave few drivers have piloted cars round the circuit in sub-seven minute times, with those cars averaging over 110mph over the course of the lap.

The exceptional balance and spunky, but not overwhelming, engine take away most of the fear that comes with piloting sports cars in the wet.

Standard on all S90 models is Volvo's latest in semi-autonomous driving technology, Pilot Assist, which gives steering assistance to keep the car within its lane of travel at speeds up to 80 mph.

Despite these snarls, the factory gates opened promptly at 10:30 a.m. and released a highly exclusive three - car convoy: first out was the Cayenne chase car with driver, photographer, and luggage; second in line was the chrome blue (a $ 63,000 option) 918; and third was a Volkswagen Touran minivan driven by a chipper mechanic who would swap the Pirellis for ultra-high-performance Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires at the end of day one.

Even piloting right - hand - drive cars on the wrong side of narrow roads couldn't spoil the fun.

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