Sentences with phrase «of poor driver»

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Monitoring driver attention by measuring the driver's touching of the steering wheel «was a poor surrogate for monitored driving engagement,» said the board.

Meanwhile, the seemingly «low» weekly or monthly payments that these leases offer credit - poor consumers can quickly skyrocket far above the real value of the car, locking drivers into a deal many can't ultimately afford.

The second came when a video started circulating of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick yelling at an Uber Black driver because of poor fares.

Sales of new vehicles in the U.S. throughout July were poor, and investors are scrambling to find an explanation, especially when factoring in a strong growth of licensed drivers, relatively affordable financing and cheap gas.

The 200 - plus percent rally in the Standard & Poor's 500 Index since March 2009 is thus a large driver of bond purchases.

Companies with strong gender diversity criteria may be better positioned across all performance drivers, while companies with relatively poor gender diversity criteria may be exposed to higher levels of risk as a result of discrimination lawsuits, exploitation issues and poor talent retention.

Bad market timing derived from overreaction to past stock market returns (individual option traders seem especially prone to overreact) and high trading costs are probable drivers of this poor performance.

Hundreds of thousands of Manila commuters find Uber and its ride - sharing rivals welcome alternatives to the country's notoriously poor and overcrowded buses and trains, run - down taxis and rough cab drivers.

As such, the drivers had to settle for promises from Lyft to reimburse some of their expenses and to warn them before they were about to be deactivated for poor customer ratings.

Caritas Internationalis president Cardinal Luis Tagle said: «The poor are suffering greatly from the climate crisis and fossil fuels are among the main drivers of this injustice.

That's certainly a disappointing ending for the «Chicken Man,» who RCR pledged to help develop as a driver but only waited through five races of wrecked cars and poor finishes before giving him the boot.

Some of the issues brought up by the drivers include poor visibility and a worry over how it would affect them if they had to get out of the car in a hurry.

The car may be poor, but I don't think the drivers are getting the most out of it.

Stop Stunting in South Asia documents three main drivers of child stunting in the region: 1) the poor diets of children in the five years of life; 2) the poor nutrition of women before and during pregnancy; and 3) the prevailing poor sanitation practices in households and communities.

«Poor strategic thinking militates against clear presentation, which was evident in the aftermath of the budget and in response to the possibility of industrial action by tanker drivers.»

Iain Duncan Smith's Centre for Social Justice still portrays drug addiction as one of the main drivers of worklessness, poverty and social exclusion in our poorest communities.

As Public Advocate, she pledges to use the powers of her office to ensure that the NYPD conducts full and complete crash investigations and holds dangerous drivers accountable for their actions, and will champion the expansion of complete - street projects, especially to disadvantaged neighborhoods that are all too often plagued by poor road design.

Drivers of the Bus Rapid Transport (BRT) are on strike in protest at what they said are poor working conditions.

The typical driver of an SUV spends as much on fuel in a month as the poorer third of the world spend on food.»

Poor diet and lack of physical activity are the main drivers of obesity, he says.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

«If you address the drivers of climate change, in many regards you are addressing the driver of poor health around the world.»

One of the most dangerous aspects of drowsy or fatigued drivers is that although 37 percent of them admit to having fallen asleep behind the wheel, research shows drivers are very poor at gauging their sleepiness before being involved in an accident.

«Neighborhood and school poverty are big drivers of low - income kids» poor educational outcomes, so rising income segregation perpetuates inequality and may reduce poor kids» mobility.»

Yet paradoxically, many people remain skeptical about the value of new technologies for poor people and of technological innovation as a driver of development.

Increased land development, poor water quality and disease are leading drivers of their habitat loss.

Drowsy driving Tired drivers have delayed reaction times, or they doze at the wheel, so driving after a night of poor sleep is a dangerous idea.

«I don't blame Uber for one driver's poor actions, since bad apples can appear in any organization, but I do think that when a company has a culture of bullying their way past laws and regulations, as Uber seems to do, they begin to think they can act with impunity in anything,» said Lee.

To understand how food can enhance feelings of happiness and reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, let's look at the common drivers of poor mental health:

In my experience, however, the biggest driver of the rapid cycle of clothes production is not poor quality.

The ride makes me pretty nauseous, which I mistakenly vocalize, and then spend the rest of the (ruddy long) taxi journey convincing the poor driver that I will not vomit all over his car.

Read the full article if you want all of the gory details, but the basic idea is that she's racist, insensitive (e.g., she makes jokes about 9/11), erratic, a hit - and - run driver, and, above all else, a really poor speller.

Meanwhile, the poor driver has go through the hassle of burying a body and lying to the police.

Claudette Colbert ends up in the middle of a millionare - wife - gigolo triangle, paid by the millionaire husband to break up the wife and gigolo by impersonating a baroness; meanwhile, a poor taxi driver she'd met previously is smitten with her and seeks her out, only to find her in her new guise.

Purpose It would be fair to point to an increasing awareness of the consequence of poor nutrition and unhealthy lifestyles as the driver of the support Let's Get Cooking has had so far, both financially and otherwise.

Thirteen states have laws denying driver's licenses to students with poor attendance, Kathy Christi, a spokeswoman for the Education Commission of the States, said.

Poor health is a key driver of chronic absence, which limits at - risk students» achievement.

Attitudes belong to all layers of a person's identity, whether it is their role in schools as a student, teacher, paraprofessional, janitor, school board member, or bus driver; as a member of a racial or ethnic group; whether a person is an English Language Learner, is fluent in multiple languages, or is a non-English speaker; and whether a person identifies as poor, working class, low - income, middle income or high income.

Deciding school admissions on distance between home and school is a major driver of educational inequality between rich and poor, say researchers.

In 2014, research by the University of Bristol Centre for Market and Public Organisation, the University of Cambridge and the Institute for Fiscal Studies showed that basing admissions on how close a pupil lives to a school was a big driver of inequality between rich and poor.

Most of this challenging and inspirational route could have been created solely to delight the driver of a new Porsche 911 Carrera S. Germany's iconic sports car provided huge reserves of power and grip while riding better than expected on poor surfaces.

Before the initial leg of the trip was completed, the adult coaches and chaperones contacted the school to arrange alternative transportation due to the unsafe behavior of the driver and the poor mechanical condition of the vehicle.

Considering this poor level of education, it's amazing that most of the kids didn't die within an hour of graduating from their temporary driver's permit to their full driver's license.

During this stringent front - overlap test, the IIHS found that the 2016 Kia Sorento had minimal intrusion into the driver's space, and significantly improved control of the dummy's motion compared with the 2014 - 2015 Kia Sorento, which received «Poor» ratings for the small overlap front crash test.

But it's developing countries with poor infrastructure, non-existent driver training, ageing cars and less advanced emergency health care that account for the majority of these deaths.

Peugeot has long struggled to shake off its reputation for flaky quality and poor reliability, but it has made big strides in terms of reliability in recent years, and the company came 10th overall in our Driver Power 2015 manufacturer survey.

The only things I can complain about are as follows: traction was poor in the snow until I bought all season tires (I would suggest you do the same if you live in a snowy state); brakes were better after I had new ones installed; interior is basic, no heated seats or anything - but comfortable enough; poor placement of drive shift when you want to access car charger or front console storage and air conditioner / heat vents are not placed that great for the driver.

A 2008 Institute analysis of insurance claims found that, all other factors being the same, drivers of vehicles with seat / head restraint combinations rated good in Institute evaluations were 15 percent less likely to sustain neck injuries in rear - end crashes than drivers of vehicles with poor head restraints (see «Neck injury risk is lower if seats and head restraints are rated good,» March 15, 2008).

An analysis of 14 years worth of crash data involving Institute - rated vehicles shows that a driver of a vehicle rated good in the moderate overlap test is 46 percent less likely to die in a frontal crash, compared with a driver of a vehicle rated poor.

In the full - width rigid barrier test, the pelvis of the driver dummy slipped beneath the lap section of the seatbelt and protection of this area was rated as poor.