Sentences with phrase «of road systems»

Following the lead of road systems in the West is a nearly impossible task for the African continent.

Implementing a speedy and effectual outreach post-disaster is a nontrivial challenge «due to potential infrastructural changes such as destruction of road systems that make some highways impassable, and damage to the facilities and / or warehouses that serve as storage for relief supplies.»

In addition to confiscating land, Israelis have taken control of road systems, water supplies, electricity, employment and markets in the occupied territories.

The most complex tortoise - human interactions are occurring on Santa Cruz Island, in part due to the continued expansion of the road system throughout the highlands, as well as a growing tortoise population.

Not exact matches

Apple's new system, which requires users to plug in their iPhones with a Lightning cable to use, enables drivers to make calls, get directions, listen to music, send and receive text and email messages and a heck of a lot more «with just a word or a touch,» all in a way that allows you to stay focused on the road, Apple says.

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

Geographic information system and mapping capabilities that go hand - in - hand with UAVs have many applications across multiple industries, from bridge, road and pipeline mapping to tracking the path of wildfires and identifying hotspots to assist firefighters, crop monitoring and insect detection for farmers, and real - time imaging for search and rescue operations.

In its findings on Tuesday, the NTSB said the self - driving system's «operational design» was a contributing factor to the 2016 crash because it allows drivers to avoid steering or watching the road for lengthy periods of time that were «inconsistent» with warnings from Tesla.

For the current system installed in Shenzhen, Intellifusion installed cameras with 7 million pixels of resolution to capture photos of pedestrians crossing the road against traffic lights.

What I love about the story of Brasilata is that they encouraged this new system of inventors not during the inception of their business, but somewhere down the road.

If you do the math, the current value of the U.S. road system is $ 13 trillion, an investment made over the last century.

The company's proposed Highway Drive Assist System automatically keeps cars in the correct lane and maintains an appropriate distance between vehicles, while the Autonomous Emergency Stop System will sense if the driver is debilitated and then maneuver the car to the shoulder of the road to stop.

While manufacturers of these systems have put a heavy emphasis on the use of voice interaction, shortcomings in the technology can still result in drivers taking their eyes off the road and focusing them on the fun stuff in the dashboard.

We measure the vitality of each state's transportation system by the value of goods shipped by air, waterways, roads and rail.

Last year, Seeing Machines signed a deal with construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to install systems in 40,000 of the company's mining trucks that sense when drivers aren't looking at the road or are falling asleep at the wheel and alert them with an alarm and a vibrating seat.

It's not just patients who benefit from the convenience of getting medical advice in their homes or offices, or even on the road, all without the cost to the system of an office visit.

Earlier this week, Georgia Representative Hank Johnson introduced two bills that he believes will help improve voting security a few years down the road: the Election Infrastructure and Security Promotion Act, which, if passed, would classify voting systems as critical infrastructure to be protected by the Department of Homeland Security; and the Election Integrity Act, which will map out a planned response for voting system failures and control the types of voting machines states are allowed to buy.

A national civil engineering group has surveyed the nation's bridges, roads, dams, transit systems and more and awarded a string of D or D + grades since 1998.

Even though the Volvo XC90 comes equipped with a range of sensors and driver assist systems — including pedestrian and cyclist detection with auto brake (above)-- and the Uber vehicle was outfitted with more sophisticated sensors such as lidar, the vehicle inexplicably never detected Herzberg as she crossed a darkened road.

Windows XP was officially retired on Tuesday, the end of the road for what was arguably Microsoft's most successful version of its still - dominant operating system.

On one side, you can either increase the supply of roads by laying more pavement, or use technology to squeeze more capacity out of the existing road system.

For the last 300 years, the assumption of Europe and North America was that you were going to have a mixed economy, with governments investing in infrastructure, roads and other transportation, communications, water and sewer systems, gas and electricity.

Many of the highest return infrastructure investments — such as improving roads, repairing 60,000 structurally deficient bridges, upgrading schools or modernising the air traffic control system — do not generate a commercial return and so are excluded from his plan.

In the case of Tesla's Autopilot, one limitation was that the system could not detect a truck trailer that crossed the road in front of the victim's Tesla.

Tesla acknowledged its semiautonomous Autopilot system was engaged by the driver in the seconds before a fatal crash last week, raising more questions about the safety of self - driving technology on public roads.

The highly levered financial system is «like a truckload of nitroglycerin on a bumpy road,» Janus» Bill Gross warns.

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.

Ride - hailing offers a new option for the movement of people around the province and Lower Mainland and could serve as an integral tool in the management of road congestion and a complementary element to a public transit system that is nearing capacity in many communities.

Our mission is to support the growth of public banking in Massachusetts, initially focusing on an infrastructure bank to help cities and towns with the costs of upgrading buildings, roads, and water systems, with environmental remediation and adaption to a changing climate, and with improving city services.

~ Napoleon Bonaparte China's launch several years ago of the One Belt, One Road Initiative is set to become the biggest commercial linking - system constructing project in world history.

Virgin completed a feasibility study with the Dubai Roads and Transport Authority this year to explore the viability of a UAE - wide hyperloop system.

I have used a fall in exports to show how constrained Beijing's policy choices are, but I could just have easily done the same using as an example any change in the currency regime, the reform of the hukou system, the de-industrialization of the bankrupt northeast provinces, the development of the OBOR and Silk Road projects, changes in interest rates or minimum reserves, protecting the stock market from crashing, the provincial bond swaps, changes in the tax regime, improving energy and environmental policies, and so on.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

After reviewing all of the case materials, prosecutors concluded it actually would have been easier for the Silk Road criminals to conceal their assets in the traditional financial system.

Federal - Mogul is one of the leading global suppliers of components, accessories, and systems to the automotive, small engine, heavy - duty, marine, railroad, agricultural, off - road, aerospace, and energy markets.

Critics claim that, in merely seeking to accommodate those cars, it perpetuates, rather than challenges, the system of car dependence responsible for Los Angeles» congested roads — an apparent manifestation of Musk's own self - interest.

Mr. Gardner argued that a broader definition of American competitiveness is needed that includes not only the tax system, but also the business infrastructure that the tax system supports — bridges and roads, health care, education and research and development.

While the building and maintaining of our roads and highways to ensure seamless transport across our states has had a positive impact on trucking, the lack of stable funding for the interstate system is threatening Eisenhower's vision.

In Africa, in the seventies, when they took over several countries» governments the first thing they would do is to change (in one day) all road names to heroes of the communist system.

The point is that the CPP is a very efficient vehicle for needed retirement saving, and that the failure of workers to save enough under a «you are on your own system» will squeeze living standards down the road.

Conversely, the extreme bumpiness of a truck's ride means that those systems need to be better isolated from road harshness than their automotive counterparts.

Of course, we do not yet know how the system will work, and only that it will work on highways, suggesting sensors can decipher white lines on the road and cars around it.

Some of the proceeds would go to network maintenance, but the excess would pay for other forms of infrastructure these firms depend on: roads for deliveries, legal systems for adjudicating differences and regulations for protecting consumers.

While the heart behind much of this has been to improve upon systems that needed change, the fruit of this labor has sent many churches down the road of misplaced purpose and identity.

The victory of the post-European techno - secular world and the universalization of its lifestyle and thinking have spread the impression (especially in Asia and Africa) that Europe's value system, culture, and faith — in other words, the very foundations of its identity — have reached the end of the road and have indeed already disappeared.

I have a long driveway and a yard sprinkler system that douses the front porch, and the entire driveway all the way to the road... all 1/5 mile of it.

In my new book, We Make the Road by Walking, I read the Bible not as a static revelation of God in a system, but as a dynamic narrative of human discovery as old conceptions of God die and new conceptions are born in the vacuum.

The road to such a society is the creation of an economic system in which «every working person would be an active and responsible participant, where work would be attractive and meaningful,» where every worker would participate in management and decision - making.

Look, when we say that God waited to send Jesus until there was a common tongue and a good road system, what we are also saying is that the only part of the world that God really cared about was the part under Roman rule (Most of Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia).

So anyway, while I do think the Roman road system and common language helped the spread of the Gospel, I don't think we can say that this was why Jesus came at the time and place that He did.