Sentences with phrase «own test vehicles»

Forty - two companies, including market leaders like Uber, Waymo, Tesla, and GM, are currently permitted to test vehicles with self - driving features in the state.

Due mainly to happenstance — which models proved easiest to rent or borrow — the researchers ended up with a BMW X5 and two VWs, a Jetta and a Passat, as test vehicles.

Walmart declined to comment on when it plans to test the vehicles and how it plans to do so.

Crusan says physics - based simulations are helping NASA planners on the Journey to Mars mission, providing virtual environments to test vehicle and system performance in simulated deep space environments.

After the recall CARB tested the vehicles anew.

It's not clear whether those vehicles will be available for sale soon, or simply as test vehicles as the companies perfect the technology.

Waymo has been testing vehicles in Texas, Arizona, Washington State, Nevada, California and launched winter testing on public roads in Michigan.

Volkswagen will deploy autonomous test vehicles developed with Aurora on public roads in 2018.

Waymo is also testing vehicles in Texas, California, and Washington state.

The autonomous space craft, blandly called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is intended to «demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space - test platform.»

Apple (aapl) said California should revise how companies report self - driving system «disengagements» and said the state should change a proposal «that may restrict both the design and equipment that can be used in test vehicles to further develop autonomous technologies.»

The company removes self - driving cars from city streets after California regulators said Uber needed to obtain a permit to test the vehicles.

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

The proposed regulations enable manufacturers to certify that their driverless test vehicles can operate without conventional controls.

Even today, Ford's self - driving test vehicles contain giant red fail - safe buttons next to the gearshift that are essentially for looks.

The test vehicle only reached 70 miles per hour, a tenth of the company's eventual target speed.

The company started testing its vehicles on Toronto streets last year.

Delphi told the agency that another car crashed into its Audi test vehicle on the evening of Oct. 14 in Palo Alto, Calif..

Waymo may be thinking along similar lines: It recently took a big step in that general direction, announcing that some of its test vehicles operating in Arizona will soon begin testing without a human driver standing by at the wheel.

For now, the pilot trips will be free, and every test vehicle will come equipped with a human supervisor in the front seat — ready to take control if there's a system malfunction.

Three tactics proved especially promising: 1) moving away from «direct» sales and toward integrated campaigns that drove purchases in retail stores; 2) using DRTV as an inexpensive testing vehicle, rather than an all - or - nothing launch pad; and 3) maximizing margins by relentlessly optimizing costs and sales prices.

A Toyota Motor Corp. automated driving test vehicle enters a highway on - ramp in Tokyo, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015.

An additional 1.2 miles of track will supposedly help the test vehicle achieve its target speed.

The announcement came shortly after the California DMV revoked the registration of the 16 test vehicles the company deployed as part of the pilot.

However, Google has yet to test its vehicles in snowy climates like Michigan — where automakers like Ford, BMW and Nissan are testing their vehicles at the University of Michigan — making the state a promising candidate.

Full details are still forthcoming surrounding the death on Sunday night of pedestrian Elaine Herzberg after she was struck by Uber's test vehicle, a Volvo SC 90 sport utility vehicle, operating in autonomous mode..

Herzberg's death is the first involving an autonomous test vehicle but not the first in a car with some self - driving features.

The crash in Arizona isn't the first involving an Uber autonomous test vehicle.

While other firms play catchup with a reactive approach, Hagens Berman has become a proactive pioneer — testing vehicles, effecting scientific evidence of new fraud and leading the pack against automakers who violate the law.

Baidu and other autonomous driving technology developers testing vehicles on public roads in California have had to release more details as to why thei...

Ford is also testing its vehicles in Michigan and Arizona on its own private test tracks.

As is required for Uber's autonomous test vehicles operating on public roads, the AV had a safety driver at the wheel.

Currently, the Mountain View firm has 60 test vehicles, and in total, it has logged more than 1.8 million miles.

The company notes that testing the vehicles in real - life scenarios greatly improves the software, as it is programmed to learn from experience.

As of Dec. 8, the company's name was not listed on the D.M.V.'s website as having a permit to test the vehicles in the state.

According to Elio, the funds will be used to fund engineering and testing vehicles, the «E-Series» to test «aerodynamics, durability and safety.»

General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) has built 130 autonomous Chevrolet Bolt test vehicles in a factory setting and is deploying them in three American cities, CEO Mary Barra said Tuesday.

This is where we come into the picture: our technology makes it possible to model these systems and the semiconductors that will be integrated in them, so that it will be possible to test the vehicle software on them before the hardware that runs it has been developed in the real world.»

Booster fit (no - back): A rating that reflects a booster seat's ability to correctly position the lap and shoulder belts in various test vehicles using a child - sized dummy, when used as a backless booster.

In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications from companies interested in testing the vehicles on public roads.

«Any auto manufacturer who meets DMV's criteria will be able to test vehicles, so the insinuation that GM was accorded any favoritism is not only obnoxious, but absurd.»

It permits, for instance, automated, or self - driving, car makers to get another one - year window in order to test their vehicles on New York roads, with various safety - related requirements; it comes after an Uber automated car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.

HARLEM — A licensed Department of Motor Vehicles inspector from an East Harlem garage was one of four people charged with allegedly issuing more than 7,000 safety inspection certificates without testing the vehicles, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday.

The researchers collected exhaust gases from test vehicles in a 12 - cubic - meter blow - up chamber with transparent Teflon film walls.

In the wake of their successful initial lab tests using small model cats, the researchers are now talking to industrial partners to integrate one of these catalytic converters in full size in a test vehicle.

Through a series of tests, NASA engineers honed the space shuttle's design and developed the first test vehicle, Enterprise, in 1976.

In October 2014 the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle — 3 returned from a mission where some analysts believe it was testing technologies for hypersonic missiles — weapons capable of hitting any target on Earth within an hour — and, possibly, techniques for repairing or disabling satellites.

Although this could take a while, «some of the ideas might find their way into test vehicles in the next 10 years,» he says.

In the end, the driving personalities of the two test vehicles, with a few exceptions, were close enough to those of ordinary gasoline - powered cars that if buyers ultimately reject fuel - cell machines, it won't be because the cars seem unfamiliar from behind the wheel.

The four - door test vehicle had 120 horsepower — about two - thirds the typical amount for a midsize SUV.