Sentences with phrase «oncoming lanes»

He also represented the families of seven laborers who were killed in the largest vehicular manslaughter case in Texas history where 10 people were killed after a runaway 18 - wheeler crossed into the oncoming lanes of traffic of Highway 75.

According to early reports, Henry Clarke's car began to drift into oncoming lanes of traffic.

(b) Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) EyeSight high - performance stereo cameras accurately detect the presence of vehicles ahead and in oncoming lanes, smoothly adjusting the range of the high beams in a continuous range by means of shields inside the headlights.

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.

She goes too fast around a corner, loses control, swerves into the oncoming lane, and is run over by a semi.

«Watch this,» he said as he steered the ungainly vehicle around a sharp corner in the city's small downtown, crossing well over into the oncoming lane.

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

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.

That and the adaptive cruise control, which had the disconcerting habit of seeing vehicles in the oncoming lane and letting off the gas.

The new Focus will also offer an Adaptive Front Lighting System that will adjust the intensity and the headlight beam angle to the driving environment, in addition to a glare - free high beam function that is designed to avoid blinding cars in the oncoming lane.

The on - center vagueness will prevent you from sneezing into the oncoming lane, but it also contributes to a larger - car laziness that you wouldn't expect from a compact.

The new XC60 also gets safety aids like steer assist, city safety system which includes pedestrian and cyclist detection and can apply the brakes automatically to avoid a collision at speeds up to 50 km / h, oncoming lane mitigation to avoid head - on collisions, ABS and ESC.

The XC40 is the first to be based on the company's new CMA architecture and gets a host of tech and driver assist features like Pilot Assist, Adaptive Cruise Control, City Safety with pedestrian, cyclist and large animal detection, Oncoming lane mitigation, Driver Alerts and Lane Keeping Aid.

And as you'd expect from Volvo, it's available with a wide range of active safety features to keep you on the road and out of trouble, including LED headlights with active high beam that automatically switch between high and low beam as well as a lane keeping aid with oncoming lane mitigation to help keep you in your lane.

«This gives reason to believe that a collision with a small overlap often happens because the party responsible for the [crash] gets into the oncoming lane unintentionally as a result of a driving error or due to inappropriate speed,» the authors say.

Additionally, the vehicle will also be offered with adaptive cruise control, oncoming lane mitigation, run - off - road mitigation and blind spot information.

I overcompensated and spun out into the oncoming lane, just missing a pickup truck.

In Johnson v. Carter, the defendant driver moved into an oncoming lane and crashed into an oncoming car, killing one of the passengers in the vehicle.

The Plaintiff thought the Defendant's vehicle was in the oncoming lane so she tried to keep to the right of the Defendant's vehicle.

So even though she technically swerved into the oncoming lane, she only did so to avoid a crash caused by the other driver entering her lane.

According to police, Leon was operating his vehicle on Route 125 in Wilmington, when he lost control of the car, entered the oncoming lane, and collided head - on with another automobile.

Most head - on collisions are the result of one car crossing a diving line or median and striking a car in an oncoming lane.

Giuliani was travelling on Derry Road when she lost control of her vehicle on the icy roadway and travelled into the oncoming lane where a head - on collision occurred with another vehicle.

In incidents with trucks and other heavy vehicles entering the oncoming lane, the magnitude of the larger vehicle colliding with a medium or small passenger vehicle will usually inflict catastrophic injuries to the passengers of the standard vehicle or even cause multiple fatalities.

A woman and her two children from Nageezi, New Mexico were killed on U.S. 550 near Bloomfield last Thursday when their car collided with the trailer of a semi-truck that was traveling in the oncoming lane.

The truck involved in the fatal crash braked to avoid a collision, and its trailer drifted into the oncoming lane and was hit by the car containing the family.

The problem is, many drunk drivers who appear to be driving normally, are at an extremely high risk of missing a stop sign, red light, or swerving into an oncoming lane unexpectedly.

Not exact matches

Standard Oncoming Lane Mitigation automatically helps you steer back into your lane if it detects that you have crossed the lane markings, heading into the path of an oncomingOncoming Lane Mitigation automatically helps you steer back into your lane if it detects that you have crossed the lane markings, heading into the path of an oncomingoncoming vehi...

If you want to pass the very slow moving vehicle in front you would have to go into the oncoming traffic lane to pass the vehicle.

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

In 2006, six people were killed at the same location when their car jumped the divider and slammed into oncoming traffic in the southbound lane.

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.

Ten lanes of static oncoming lights, the usual soothing interlude between kindergarten and supper.

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.

When we see an oncoming car drifting into our lane, we don't immediately default to DEFCON 1 because we realize a head - on collision probably isn't imminent.

Intelligent lane assist that monitors both the car's own lane as well as oncoming traffic and can issue an early collision warning.

Optional safety features include a blind spot warning system with rear cross-traffic alert, lane departure warning, a backup camera and a Pre-Collision System that can warn you about oncoming obstacles as well as tighten the seat belts and autonomously brake the car.

On December 29, 2009, 18 - year - old Kassy Kerfoot was driving on a busy five - lane highway during rush hour traffic when she lost control of her car and hit two oncoming vehicles.

Before exiting your vehicle, check for oncoming traffic or other hazards, and consider moving your vehicle out of any high - traffic lanes or other situations that could cause a problem for yourself or other drivers.

Toyota Safety Sense provides peace of mind with the Pre-collision system that provides emergency braking, auto high beams detect oncoming traffic and switch from high to low beam, dynamic radar cruise control adapts to the flow of traffic, and lane departure alert warns when drifting out of your lane and assists in maintaining.

It is a hard trick as the Speed limit is 70 and most folks are truly running 75 MPH, so you have to have acceleration to pull away from the oncoming cars are you traverse 3 or 4 lanes of traffic.

Illumination adapts automatically to weather conditions, lane position and oncoming traffic, using information supplied by an onboard camera.

Even when towing a trailer on the back, Ford?s advanced Blind Spot Information System can detect oncoming traffic in the next lane.

Pirelli tires stick with little audible protest, while effortless steering and a ratio approaching Formula 1 quickness, allow us to skirt oncoming traffic in our half of the lane with a simple flick of the wrists.

Institute researchers and others have evaluated rumble strips, finding they reduce head - on crashes and oncoming sideswipes as well as run - off - the - road crashes by 25 - 30 percent (see «Rumble strips down centerlines of two - lane roads reduce head - on and sideswipe crashes,» Feb. 7, 2004).

A new safety system called Oncoming Lane Mitigation uses steer assist to help mitigate head - on collisions, while Volvo's Blind Spot Indication System now uses Steer Assist functionality to reduce the risk of lane - changing collisions.

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

When switched to automatic mode, it detects both oncoming vehicles and vehicles in the same lane ahead at night and changes to low - beam as appropriate, reducing blinding effects on other drivers.

He used the i30's High Beam Assist, which detects both oncoming vehicles as well as vehicles in the same lane ahead at night and changes to low - beam and high - beam as appropriate for safe driving.

Intelligent cruise control, lane departure assist, blind spot monitoring and automatic braking if the driver turns into oncoming traffic are all features that are available on 2015 vehicles that, paired together, make autonomous vehicles a forgone conclusion.