Sentences with phrase «of vehicles we test»

Expect to lay out at least a few hundred dollars, depending on how much work needs to be done, says Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing at auto website Edmunds.com.

«The fact that Tesla would ship a car that doesn't have everything all worked out is a bit off - putting to me,» Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing, said in a phone interview.

«It sports the best navigation system graphics out of all vehicles tested,» opined online editor Ed Tahaney, while features editor Rory Jurnecka noted, «if you can only have one car to do it all and need four doors, the A4 is an excellent choice.

All four of the vehicles I tested have their strong points - be it price, quality or styling - as well as their weak points - be it performance, noise, quality or design.

All of the vehicles I tested have their strong points - be it price, quality or styling - as well as their weak points - be it performance, noise, quality or design.

Our Platinum 4WD trim was well - appointed and we couldn't think of a single thing that the Infiniti version of this vehicle we tested had that we missed.

Axel Honisch, Head of Vehicle Test and Development at Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center, said: «We take a comprehensive approach to ensure that every Hyundai Motor vehicle is tested in the most extreme conditions so that our customers always enjoy high standards of comfort, ride, handling and reliability.

«We are getting closer and closer to the final development stage of the i30 N,» said Albert Biermann, Executive Vice President and Head of Vehicle Test & High Performance Development at Hyundai Motor Company.

I rarely ever talk about the looks of vehicles we test (with the exception of extremely out of the box designs) because it's naturally a subjective topic.

[50] Vehicle tests that focused on the electrical drive system including the batteries, controller, and motor «found that the Pacer performance is approximately equal to the majority of the vehicles tested in the 1977 assessment.»

Compared with the 2014 model, one of the worst performers of any vehicle tested by IIHS for small overlap protection, the 2015 model fared much better, but its overall rating still is only marginal.

And, while it hasn't been officially planned or confirmed, interviews with Albert Beirmann — the Executive VP of Vehicle Testing and High - Performance Development for Kia — has said that there have been talks of electrification, a move that could pit the Stinger against the likes of the Tesla Model 3 or even the Model S, depending on how much electric muscle Kia can come up with.

It is shocking how few of the vehicles we test can pull this off.

Speaking with Albert Biermann, Kia's Head of Vehicle Test and High Performance Development at Detroit, we specifically asked him that very question.

If you lived in California, like Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing at Edmunds.com, he'd tell you after - market rust protection is a waste of time.

Of all vehicles tested, including every major make and model approved for sale in the United States, the Model S set a new record for the lowest likelihood of injury to occupants.

In this case, we assume the C - MAX wasn't one of the vehicles tested, and the EPA wants to put the car to the test.

To secure the position of a vehicle test engineer, where I can utilize my progressive experience in generating testing procedures and conducting testing of vehicle parts in an established automobile company.

Not exact matches

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

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

It is not yet clear whether Uber's system was at fault or not in the latest crash, but Uber has now halted all testing of its autonomous vehicles, with no clear timeline for reactivation.

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

In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

The retail giant said Friday that it has pre-ordered 15 Tesla Semis — the official name of the vehicles — for testing.

Automotive dealerships can allow customers to take tours of the showroom and test drive vehicles before coming in.

«We have a long history of testing new technology — including alternative - fuel trucks — and we are excited to be among the first to pilot this new heavy - duty electric vehicle,» a Walmart spokesperson told Fortune in an email.

«The current limitation of connected vehicle testing outside of a closed circuit test tracks is the lack connected vehicles,» Toyota said in a statement.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

Fisker then suffered a series of mishaps, including a battery flaw that caused at least one of its vehicles to burst into flames, and a lurid episode with Consumer Reports, when its test Karma sedan failed to run at all, a first in the history of that publication.

Since then however, virtually all of the world's major automakers have ramped up self - driving car efforts and are currently testing prototype vehicles with various levels of autonomous capabilities.

The Pegasus platform builds on top of Nvidia's existing Drive PX computing systems that are already used in many self - driving vehicle tests around the world.

NASA has a long history of launching them, and Virgin Galactic — Richard Branson's aerospace company — is now building and testing a suborbital vehicle called SpaceShipTwo.

Aurora is the 37th company to receive an autonomous vehicle testing permit in California, one of several states that have become hotbeds for the development and testing of self - driving cars.

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.

The company plans to start testing early versions of the vehicle, which will be equipped with manual controls, just in case.

«We're pretty close to sending crew up to the Space Station - that's currently scheduled for the end of next year,» he said, referencing the upcoming Dragon 2 vehicle that SpaceX is testing.

The action has helped turn Phoenix and its multitude of suburbs into a destination for autonomous vehicle testing.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is a known proponent of autonomous vehicle technology and allows testing in the state per an executive order.

Tesla also said California should not prohibit the sale of any non-self-driving vehicle that was previously used for autonomous vehicle testing, an issue that could affect the company because of company software.

Troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who took part in the testing in Maryland, spoke highly of the new features on the vehicle, which has been nicknamed «Dragoon» after the regiment.

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.

Army personnel recently traveled from Germany to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for testing and training on new variants of the Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle.

Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban fleets of on - demand autonomous vehicles.

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.

After testing driverless vehicles in the area, Waymo will move to testing in the denser city streets of the Bay Area.

Only a handful of cities, starting with Beijing four months ago, were allowed to pilot road tests, but the country hopes to keep pace with the U.S. in the global race to develop autonomous vehicles.

By year - end the company expects to have the largest fleet of autonomous test vehicles of any automaker.

Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions tests.

Ford is also trying to strike a balance between evolution, with its vehicle lineup's semiautonomous features, and revolution, with its test fleet of driverless cars.

As a result, Krafcik says Waymo's test drivers now take control of the vehicle and disengage the autonomous - drive system approximately once every five thousand miles driven.