Sentences with phrase «oncoming drivers»

Black ice is a common problem; when the ice on the road is dark colored and hardly visible to oncoming drivers, usually in areas where the wind is strongest across the roadway, presenting a dangerous slick spot when the drivers least expect it.

Provided there is no traffic coming or you are at a four - way stop where oncoming drivers are required to stop and wait for you, you are free to turn left.

In addition, jackknifed trucks can pose a hazard to oncoming drivers.

This includes a system that adjusts the LED headlamps to avoid dazzling oncoming drivers and a predictive pedestrian protection system that identifies pedestrians who look as if they're about to cross the road in front of you.

Glare from low beams for oncoming drivers also is measured.

The low beams provide enough light on the straightaway and all curves, though they create a bit of glare for oncoming drivers.

In track tests, they did not produce excessive glare to oncoming drivers.

For example, the lamps can offer additional illumination to the side of the road in both urban and rural areas, while the high beam lights have greater intensity at motorway speeds, without dazzling oncoming drivers.

Pixel - laser LED headlights: advanced technology provides greater luminance and intelligently blanks sections of LEDs to avoid dazzling oncoming drivers.

Glare from low beams for oncoming drivers is also measured in each scenario.

The halogen low beams, for example, put more light in the eyes of oncoming drivers on a straightaway than on the left side of the road.

The energy - conserving quad LED headlights glow like diamonds cutting the night, but they don't blind oncoming drivers, thanks to its standard Automatic High Beams (AHB).

Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) headlights help prevent vision - impairing glare to oncoming drivers and pedestrians.

The upgraded lighting is a welcome addition to the ILX's spec sheet, casting crisp HID illumination on the road ahead without blinding oncoming drivers.

It's likely that the Allspace will benefit from the same list of optional safety kit, too, with highlights including adaptive cruise control and LED headlights with Dynamic Light Assist — technology that allows full beam to be on permanently without dazzling oncoming drivers.

The main idea is for a camera to determine whether other vehicles are approaching and automatically dim the light in certain areas so oncoming drivers aren't dazzled.

You still need to have your wits about you to avoid blinding cyclists and pedestrians, but with other traffic it seems to work pretty faultlessly as we didn't once encounter an angry flash from oncoming drivers.

«[The headlights] provide fair to good visibility but produce excessive glare for oncoming drivers,» IIHS noted in a recent release.

At a busy intersection in the San Francisco Bay area, the team stationed «pedestrians» at crosswalks, with instructions to approach the crossing at a point when oncoming drivers would have a chance to stop.

An oncoming driver crossed completely over into his lane and hit them head on.

The LED lights are so intense, they do not allow the oncoming driver to be able to see the turn signal.

The XC90 will even flash its lights in an attempt to alert the oncoming driver ahead of the crash.

before the car took off, and to be fair, crossed the lane before the oncoming driver even had to think about touching the brakes.

Some motorists such as Dean Winton have successfully challenged «flashing your lights» tickets in court by arguing that this statute is clearly «aimed at stopping motorists from operating flashing lights to imply they're driving official or emergency vehicles» — not at people who flash their headlights to warn of a speed trap (or, I would imagine, to inform an oncoming driver that his high beams are on).

If they do see other vehicles, their condition often causes them to miscalculate the oncoming driver's speed and location.

In this regard, Mr. Johnson cites Feng v. Graham [1988] 5 W.W.R. 137 (B.C.C.A.), (not a left turn case), for the principle that the plaintiff's entitlement to assume that other traffic will obey the law, is «subject to the proviso» (in counsel's phrase) that where it is apparent or should be apparent that an oncoming driver is not going to yield the right - of - way, then at that point the other driver must act reasonably and can not simply proceed into the collision, as it were.

If an oncoming vehicle fails to dim their high beams, it's ok to flash your lights to try and remind them, but don't leave your high beams on in spite or to «get back» at the oncoming driver.

Safe driving classes teach great defensive driving skills that can help you navigate your vehicle through a patch of black ice, or help you avoid an oncoming driver who has come in to your lane.

Driving with your high beams on can cause the oncoming driver to be blinded.

Not exact matches

If the sensors detect that the driver is not alert of the oncoming traffic and analyzes a potential collision, the E350 will deploy a series of sounds and visual signals to alert the driver of oncoming traffic.

If a pedestrian tries to cross the road against the traffic lights he may meet an oncoming vehicle; the driver applies brakes and there is an accident.

The idea is that an elongated screen with stretch along the nose of the car, protecting the driver from oncoming object whilst also preserving the open - cockpit nature of the cars in a less hideous way than the Halo did.

The world heard about the Georgian judo champion who missed his weigh - in (and a chance to defend his gold medal) because his bus driver got lost... and of the frustrated British rowers who were reduced to standing in front of an oncoming bus, Tiananmen Square - like, as its driver bore down on them like Sandra Bullock in Speed... and of the apparent agoraphobe, afraid to drive on interstates, who sobbingly abandoned her busload of people en route to an event.

The intersection of Ill. 83 and Port Clinton Road has become especially dangerous, he said, with drivers turning across high - speed oncoming traffic.

In the process, according to ASP Tanko, he collided with an oncoming bus with registration number GM 5383 - 12, killing 16 people including both drivers on the spot with several others seriously injured.

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.

ALBANY — Brooklyn state Sen. Martin Golden impersonated a cop and threatened to haul a bicycle rider into a precinct while his driver ran several red lights and drove into oncoming traffic, the cyclist said Tuesday.

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.

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.

When you are not stopped in the ever more frequent bumper - to - bumper traffic of this bustling port city, care must be taken to avoid drivers making turns, who assume the right of way against oncoming traffic; reversing for missed turns; or executing a U-turn in the middle of a busy road.

There's drowsiness, road construction, darkness, a novice driver in the oncoming lane.

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

Warning systems can make a sound, alerting a driver that the car is straying out of its lane, either into oncoming traffic or perhaps off the road itself.

Or the consequences can be disastrous, as when a narrow focus prevents a driver from noticing a light turning red or an oncoming train.

Several gunmen shoot at people on a rooftop who run and two of them are shot (one falls dead and we see him in a pool of blood, the other has a bloody abdominal wound); the wounded man falls to his knees on the street as the others continue and he shoots the driver of an oncoming truck killing him (blood splatters) and the truck mows the man down (we do not see the body after).

They run into a Southerner named Chris Mannix on the road, and three of them, along with their driver — a living prisoner and three dead bounties strapped to the roof — arrive at a haberdashery to take shelter from an oncoming blizzard.

But on the narrow avenue leading back to the Hamburg - Berlin autobahn, our outsize plaything swerves way to the right before the angry driver of an oncoming bus flips us the bird.

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 harOncoming 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 haroncoming lane, as well as detect an oncoming car, and then take action to steer the XC60 back into its own lane and out of haroncoming car, and then take action to steer the XC60 back into its own lane and out of harm's way.

Driving these sections required a quick course in single - track etiquette, which dictates that the driver closest to the pull out waits for the oncoming vehicle to pass.

The lane changing and blind spot assistance will apply the brakes to one rear wheel at a time to steer the car in order to keep the driver from drifting into other vehicles or oncoming lanes.