Sentences with phrase «on pedal car»

The horsepower is great and once you put a little push on the pedal the car immediately responds and takes off.

I see the name of the car in the title it is a coupe, but in the pictures I see a dumpy five door hatchback shaped like a child's sit on pedal car.

Not exact matches

Take a quick look at the foot pedals on your car the next time you drive.

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.

We have this economic car going down the road: on one side is fiscal policy pressing on the gas pedal.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

Even though the FIA had prevented the MP4 / 13 from having the advantageous second brake pedal that had been found on its predecessor, the 1998 McLaren emerged as a dominant car in the opening race.

«If you think about the gas pedal and brakes on a car, GABA is the brakes,» explains co-author Michael Poulter, a neuroscientist at the Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario.

Imagine a driver who keeps a foot on the gas pedal of a car with no top acceleration.

«It's like being in a car with only a gas pedal; that part of the immune system is constantly on.

Think about like the engine of a car that in a safe haven would be in a nice, slow, idle, not stressed at all versus in your garage a car where there's somebody who has their foot all the way down on the gas pedal and so that engine is just accelerated at much higher speed than it ought to be for a car that's parked in a garage.

If your car has antilock brakes (ABS) youll feel them «lock» up when you press hard on the pedal.

You perform plantar flexion when standing on your tippy - toes, pressing (or flooring) the gas pedal of a car, walking, and of course, when performing calf exercises.

The elf hats on the sillhuottes are a perfect touch and all your vintage Christmas decor is just making me drool (that pedal car is I'm sure, the girls will be arguing over years from now on who gets it!)!

For months she has had the problem of «when she pushes on the gas pedal it doesn't work and the car jerks back and forth.»

The brakes — gargantuan carbon - ceramic discs gripped by six - piston calipers — have tremendous pedal feel and progression, which you absolutely wouldn't expect in a car so reliant on racing hardware.

To clarify something... the drivetrain is made so if you are requiring the car to go quicker (pressing the accelerator pedal harder), the transmission will hold the gear until it reaches a fail safe shift point (a point at which is predetermined if you go over «this point» it will cause damage to your drivetrain — this is on most stock production vehicles) or until you ease off the accelerator pedal, which tells the powertrain you no longer need to try and go quicker.

I lightly rest my left foot on the brake pedal to keep the car in place.

The Brembos never tire of hauling the car down from speed and have a reassuring pedal feel that is compromised only when you clout curbs, which causes the pistons to knock back - hardly something that would happen on the street.

Modern cars feature brake balancer valves that split the braking effort so most of your pushing on the pedal goes to the front wheel.

When I rebuilt the calipers on a car, and I bled them, the brakes almost held good (had enough pressure when I pressed the brake down to sieze the wheel, but didn't initially bite until the pedal was...

There are a few quirks to get used to — the brake pedal isn't a pedal, it's a touch - sensitive, pyramid - shaped rubber button where pressure, not pedal travel, equals stopping power; the feedback - free, hydraulic rack - and - pinion steering is as disconnected and consistent as a rheostat, and it feels like that of no other car on the planet — but the sharp - yet - pillowy ride and handling combination is almost supernatural.

It all varies on a car by car basis, some cars have wires you can disconnect under the seats / pedals and some you have to take the housing that encloses the wires inside the steering wheel column off.

I took it back to them with around 900 miles on and less than a month old with the problem as the clutch had twice stuck down and the Rev counter maxes out and car goes no where until pedal comes back up!

The 528i and 535i also get standard stop - start technology in which the engine automatically turns off when the car is stopped and the driver's foot is on the brake pedal.

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We'd love to know, but we're strictly belted into the lightweight fixed - back seat on the side of the car without a steering wheel or pedals.

One of the other perils of driving a Jaguar with a 510 - hp, 5.0 - liter supercharged V - 8 is that, as I told the police officer who pulled me over on southbound US - 23 north of Ann Arbor late that Saturday evening, «the difference between 80 mph and 87 mph in a car like this is just the teensy - tiniest, almost imperceptible movement of the accelerator pedal.»

When I stop the car (by hitting the brake pedal), the engine all of a sudden stops while on drive.

Yes I've driven my share of paddle equipped cars, including PDK, but however good they are, I can never shake the feeling that a proper three pedals would be more enjoyable on the road.

With the car turned off, pushing on the brake pedal results in a very firm pushback.

A firmer pedal for longer would give you the assurance you want went driving a car on track.

Releasing a car into quick, unsighted corners when your brain insists you should be hard on the brake pedal is one of the timeless joys of track driving.

Ford uses idle strategy in their software, to reset this disconnect the battery for 15 minutes, connect back and start the car in park, do not touch anything but the key when starting, let idle for 20 minutes on its own and do not touch brake pedal or anything else during this idle re-learn period.

Despite the lack of a three - pedal setup, there are other features on the 2015 Audi S3 that will surely keep any car geek happy.

A car ahead of me stopped quickly on the highway, and I had to bury the brake pedal to stop the Wraith.»

Well that's exactly what happens when I push the gas pedal on my car, but only after driving a long distance.

When a manual transmission car is stopped on level ground, it is possible (for some cars) to make it start moving without using the gas pedal by putting it in gear and bringing the clutch to the friction point.

There are two points which could cause your car to move if you start the engine: the clutch failing to disengage when you step on the pedal and the transmission failing to come out of gear when the lever is moved into a neutral position.

It's working on its own part of the equation with such ferocity that having its electric - powered cars sans steering wheels and pedals on the road in droves any later than 2030 is considered dour pessimism by anyone inside the gates of the tech giant's Googleplex in Mountain View, California.

Track mode is the last stop before «everything off,» and the idea is to provide the kind of high - performance traction control that would be outlawed in most actual race cars: flatten the pedal on corner exit and the car will deploy as much power as the tires can handle, just like a Ferrari 458 Italia in race mode.

On most motorcycles without ABS there is a brake lever controlling the front wheel and a pedal controlling the back wheel, but I've never seen a car that allows you to articulate brakes for each of the wheels individually.

Inside, the Abarth packs the same touches as the car that debuted in Geneva, with rows of red stitching on nearly every leather surface, a matte - black instrument panel, aluminum - accented pedals, and a unique shift knob.

Cadillac developed Regen On Demand after observing that many Chevrolet Volt owners routinely shifted their cars from D to L, which accomplishes the same thing as the ELR's paddles but with a lot more footwork on the pedalOn Demand after observing that many Chevrolet Volt owners routinely shifted their cars from D to L, which accomplishes the same thing as the ELR's paddles but with a lot more footwork on the pedalon the pedals.

In my opinion, 5 mm pressing of the pedal will not engage the brakes at significant force (at least no car I have driven was so sensitive) so there is no point for the light to come on.

Here's the simple launch procedure: make sure the car is in Sport mode, put your left foot on the brake, then bury the gas pedal.

We're not naïve about the current status of the old - fashioned three - pedal manual gearbox, especially on a car making its debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show, in a town where traffic makes manuals a quaint relic of the past.

One of the cars had aggressively - bolstered M seats, so you can count on those, as well as the usual M jewelry treatment — dead pedal, steering wheel, shift knob, gauges, etc..

I was driving my focus and stopped at a store when I got back on the road my pedal was soft and car was not even stopping.

When I rebuilt the calipers on a car, and I bled them, the brakes almost held good (had enough pressure when I pressed the brake down to sieze the wheel, but didn't initially bite until the pedal was 1/4 way down), and now they're very squishy and I can push the pedal all the way down to the floor, how can I tell if the rebuilt calipers are bad or the master brake cylinder is going?