Sentences with phrase «oncoming car»

Plus, factor in the $ 1,020 Driver Assistance Package (which includes built - in navigation, blind spot monitoring and rear traffic alert which warns you of oncoming cars if you're, for example, reversing out of a parking spot), and you'll have all the Nissan Sentra you'll really need.

If you were to stamp on the brakes in an emergency, you wouldn't want the car to swerve into oncoming cars because the brake on one side of your car worked better than the other.

According to an eyewitness, the Sprinter bus, from the Mankessim lane, was overtaking other cars when the driver realized he was going to collide with oncoming cars.

«Sometimes he flies under the handlebars and heads straight for oncoming cars at 45 miles an hour!

But an experiment in Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, has shown that the nightly death toll on the forest's roads can be cut drastically by installing reflectors that flash the lights from oncoming cars into the forest.

The speed only adds to the chaos on the screen, which is compounded by the fact that you're going so fast; it's hard to see oncoming cars as it is, let alone in intersections.

They're bright and adaptive — with intelligent high - beam assist that is generally right on the money when it comes to dipping for oncoming cars.

Next up, Whittaker predicts, are robotic cars that can drive themselves through stop - and - go traffic while avoiding oncoming cars and bad drivers.

And if you're concerned about blinding pedestrians and other road users, the laser technology activates at 37mph and uses a computerised sensor to detect oncoming cars and then adjust the light beam accordingly.

In just 3 decades, highway - dwelling swallows have evolved shorter wingspans to better dodge oncoming cars.

When I'm in those rare foreign lands, my right eye (the right one) tends to line itself up with the ditch, not oncoming cars.

Son with Transformers backpack slung over one shoulder, looking up at the sky instead of at the potential but as of yet unrealized oncoming cars that his mother is always yelling about as he walks into -LSB-...]

You want to be able to see oncoming cars so you can get out of the way if the driver doesn't seem to have registered your presence.

Here, he objects to a diner placing their silverware directly on the table, hidden electrical outlets you have to bend down to reach, a woman who only shampoos her hair weekly, and oncoming cars on a narrow road that expect him to back up even though they've clearly got a closer clearance.

The few oncoming cars announce their presence via headlights stabbing through the darkness, so it's easy for us to use the whole road.

LE and SE packages let you add a rear cross traffic alert to warn you about oncoming cars when the Camry is in reverse.

This helps maximize illumination to give the driver the best possible field of vision when the road ahead is clear, while minimizing the risk of distracting oncoming cars.

There's not a whole lot of skill involved, but it does lead to plenty of awesome moments like sliding between oncoming cars and weaving through packs of racers like a lunatic.

One time for instance, we were penalised for spinning in the wet weather and blocking oncoming cars.

This caused the car to bottom out, leaving Berger a passenger as he speared across the path of oncoming cars.

In high - traffic areas such as city sidewalks or bike trails (like the popular Washington and Old Dominion Trail here in Fairfax / Loudoun County), animals can bolt into oncoming car and bike traffic before owners have time to hit the leash's brake button or retract the cord.

You can not see as far ahead or to the side, and glare from oncoming cars can reduce your vision even more.

That's because the Auto High Beam can detect oncoming cars» headlights and switch the high beams on and off.

Backing out of a diagonal parking space can be daunting, as it can be difficult to see oncoming cars, pedestrians, and other obstacles.

Did you know that when you're listening to music, you're not listening out for oncoming cars, cyclists yelling to move, unleashed dogs, or any other potential threats?

On country roads, high beams are your friend — but after long stretches with no oncoming cars, it's also easy to forget you have them on.

But — to borrow Brennan's example — if I need to step onto your lawn to avoid being hit by an oncoming car, I am ethically justified in doing so, despite the fact that I am thereby invading your space, your property.

«But when you arrive at any scene, quite often the road conditions are good and you think, «what is it that they're doing at the time that caused them to miss the obvious and plough into the car in front or swerve into an oncoming car?»»

It seems like he is a rabbit caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.

She is as daunting and revelatory as the headlights of an oncoming car.

I started using the buggy less and less after a wind gust took buggy with baby across a busy car park into an oncoming car!

If we hadn't stopped to drop the last Christmas cards in the mailbox would we have avoided the oncoming car?

Reports indicate that the driver tried to overtake a car, but in an attempt to dodge another oncoming car in the opposite direction to prevent a head - on collision, the car skidded off the main road and somersaulted, resulting in injuries and the loss of lives.

Using short - range wireless signals, connected vehicle technology can alert drivers if a car up ahead slams on the brakes or if an oncoming car is about to run a stop sign.

It only needs to change the perspective: as an oncoming car approaches, the effects generator zooms into a library picture to make the vehicle appear to get closer.

The oncoming car smashed into hers, pushing her off the road and into a building with large cement pillars in front.

But large objects like asteroids couldn't have grown efficiently by sweeping up dust; the tiny particles would just waft away from the approaching asteroid, like a drifting dandelion seed swishing out of the path of an oncoming car.

«We typically characterize «all out» as «sprint from danger pace» or the intensity you would exert to save your child from an oncoming car.»

It is an important survival mechanism that allows us to react instantaneously to life - threatening situations like being able to jump out of the way of an oncoming car.

When you have to dart quickly across the street to avoid an oncoming car or think quickly during a stressful work situation, hormones help you react.

That's why people are able to jump out of the path of an oncoming car even before they think about what they are doing.

When someone confronts an oncoming car or other danger, the eyes or ears (or both) send the information to the amygdala, an area of the brain that contributes to emotional processing.

So, I would either wait too long, and make the people behind me upset, or I would go when there wasn't much room and be too close to the oncoming car, and then they would be upset!

vb to increase or cause to For years, drivers who pass a police speed trap have flashed their headlights at oncoming cars to warn them to slow down.

His plans are derailed when he and a friend are hit by an oncoming car while driving.

He becomes Annie's temporary guardian after video of him saving the girl from an oncoming car goes viral on the Internet.

We were spaced out far enough, but each radio call from ahead warning us of an oncoming car, cow, or unexpected ravine at a specified mile marker put me on high alert.

The head - on collision avoidance system, dubbed Oncoming Lane Mitigation, can tell when the driver has veered out of their lane of travel and into an oncoming lane, as well as detect an oncoming car, and then take action to steer the XC60 back into its own lane and out of harm's way.