Sentences with phrase «of public vehicle»

Undefined stops cause traffic disorder, and this would guarantee a better fluid of passengers and more efficient service, with corresponding decrease of the number of public vehicles needed.

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When I asked him if he still believed that mutual funds were the best investment vehicle for 90 % of the investing public, he said that — what else could the CEO of Morningstar possibly say?

Public pensions now have a tenth of their assets in these private and opaque vehicles; some endowments have much more.

Lyft announced a partnership earlier this year with GM to test a fleet of self - driving vehicles on public roads.

Ford f, Tesla tsla, Uber, Baidu, and Google parent Alphabet are all testing prototypes of self - piloting vehicles on public roads today.

Part of your brand is you — if you are out in the public with a shirt or vehicle with your company logo on it then go by the same rules as any other company would.

If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

He also worried that another vehicle for public mobilization, the press, was incapacitated by «the power of the corporate media.»

More than 11,000 military personnel, 69 warplanes and helicopters, and 149 military vehicles paraded through Red Square to salute President Vladimir Putin, including the first public appearance of the Tor - M2U, a state - of - the - art anti-aircraft missile system.

Uber said California should allow paying members of the public to ride in autonomous vehicles with drivers.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman's proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients.

Now, California's motor vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go from testing to use by the public in June 2015.

«The department, along with the FDNY, is reviewing the feasibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles for joint search - and - rescue operations,» said an NYPD spokesman from the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information office.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

The state has licensed 27 companies to test driverless vehicles on public roads, including vehicle manufacturers from BMW to Tesla Inc; suppliers such as Delphi Automotive Plc and Nvidia Corp; technology companies such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo and China's Baidu Inc; and a long list of self - driving startups such as Zoox, Drive.ai, AutoX and PlusAI.

Auto execs understand this phenomenon well, rattling off examples of vehicle features that the public initially resisted: seatbelts, airbags, antilock brakes, cruise control, even automatic transmission.

Because its shares can be freely traded among an unlimited number of owners, the C corp is the most tax - efficient vehicle for taking a company public.

Susan Alt, senior vice president of public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «makes a mockery» of the company's investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

Lahore and Karachi share a tattered public transport network (slightly less so in Lahore thanks to the Metro), weak rule of law, and high costs of vehicle ownership.

In September, BMW and Volkswagen partnered with California startup ChargePoint to install nearly 100 public electric vehicle fast - charging stations along two of the busiest stretches of highway in the United States.

Countries around the world are encouraging the development of autonomous technologies, and Singapore, with its limited land and workforce, is hoping driverless vehicles will encourage its residents to use more shared vehicles and public transport.

«The opioid crisis is a threat to public safety when it involves safety - sensitive employees involved in the operation of any kind of vehicle or transport,» Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao said in a release.

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

The startup will collect data during the public trial to refine the software and improve vehicle routing efficiency, the booking process, and passenger experience ahead of a wider commercial launch that is expected to begin in 2018.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

Additionally, the involvement of Peter Thomson shouldn't mislead investors into thinking that his family's investment vehicle is behind Public Mobile, or retracting from its BCE stake.

My reply was that we don't need public acceptance of autonomous vehicles at first.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Some predict that self - driving cars will replace both traditional public transportation and conventional cars in cities, transforming urban transportation into a network of interconnected vehicles to effectively eliminate traffic.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

Almost 60 % of Singapore residents, for instance, make all their daily vehicle trips by public transit.

«While San Francisco policymakers pursue common sense regulation of standup electronic scooters to enhance the public benefit of this new shared mobility technology and to reduce potential harm to the public, state legislators seek to eliminate elements of the Vehicle Code that exist to protect the health and safety of members of the public including users of standup electric scooters,» Peskin wrote in his resolution.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

We need to begin reducing the number of vehicles on our roadways, and the best ways to accomplish that is to invest in public transit infrastructure and embrace innovative transportation options that offer alternatives to conventional driving and car ownership,» says Black.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

The public and media are blowing the fatal crash involving the Tesla Model S completely out of proportion, with some already calling for a ban on semi-automated vehicles.

The fatal accident involving an Uber's self - driving vehicle and a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ over a week ago has called for the suspension of its public testing.

Prior to joining ValueAct Capital in January 2011, Mr. Hale was a Principal with The Parthenon Group, working in both the Boston and Mumbai offices of Parthenon's strategic consulting practice, as well as in an investment role at Parthenon's long - short public equity vehicle, Strategic Value Capital.

The state allows for the driving and testing of autonomous vehicles on public roadways, but requires the operator to obtain a $ 150 permit to drive in the state.

Part of the problem was that payouts snowballed after key milestones were reached, even though the ultimate goal of the project — fully autonomous vehicles provided to the public through commercial services — remained years away.

The delays by both Honda and Takata in alerting the public about the defect — and later in Takata's acknowledging it extended beyond a small group of Honda vehicles — meant other automakers like BMW, Toyota and Nissan were not aware of possible defects in their own vehicles for years, putting off their recalls.

Toyota shareholders incensed over a sudden drop in the Japanese automaker's stock price are heading to court with lawsuits claiming company executives deliberately misled investors and the public about the depth of accelerator problems in millions of its vehicles....

«But Parallel Domain's approach can help eliminate many of those concerns in virtual worlds before those vehicles reach public roads.»

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The fatality is drawing fresh attention to the safety of autonomous vehicles, and the challenges of testing them on public streets.

The public's image of the vehicles will be defined by stories like the crash in Tempe, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies self - driving vehicles.

Still, it'll be rather hard to catch up to Waymo, the autonomous vehicle division of Google's parent company Alphabet, which is also planning to roll out its first public ride - hailing service this year.