Sentences with phrase «people do to their cars»

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The belief is that most online businesses will never be able to compete with the personalized service of a person at the counter waiting to help you, to ask you how your day is going, to help carry your bags to your car, to lend you a bathroom, and to sell you things you don't really need.

People didn't have as much money to spend, so they opted for cheaper, used cars rather than brand new options.

Young people don't want to be associated with the stereotype of the used car salesman trying to hoodwink a naïve customer.

Lexus usually doesn't allow people with no experience in the car business to buy in.

Watch Out, Apple and Google: Survey Reveals People Don't Trust Tech Companies to Build Self - Driving Cars

Whether it's the barista frothing my cappuccino as I impatiently embark on my next transcontinental flight or the construction workers blocking the street while cars pile up and they, doughnuts in hand, mosey along attempting to clear the blockage du jour, people seem to be flat - out taking their blasted time.

Lacking a leader, «it's hard for me to be optimistic or pessimistic because I don't know if they're going to open the floodgates and take a lot of risks to rush the technology out — or if they're going to take a reasonable, rational pathway to protecting people,» said David Friedman, director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union.

The short - term answer to avoiding having an extra wireless plan has been to tether cars to smartphones, the same way that many people are currently doing with computers and tablets.

Among the things Tesla did to properly organize, besides having a great idea, Baum says, is to actually produce the cars it promised to buyers, hire people with a specialty in the automotive industry, build strong supplier relationships, and develop manufacturing specialty and marketing expertise, Baum says.

Zipcar, ironically, discovered that even people who forgo car ownership don't like to walk very far when they need to rent one, so it adjusted resources to increase its density in key markets.

«People want the ability to do commerce from their car,» says Stone.

In the future as these capabilities become more sophisticated, home security systems may send an alert in situations where, for example, a person comes to your door and does something suspicious, like peer in a window, or a car drives slowly up and down the street several times.

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Lyft as well as rival Uber have a history of drumming up ways to attract drivers, even for people who don't own cars.

In Chicago alone, there were 60,000 people who applied to become a driver, but were denied because they didn't have a car that qualified.

Most people don't think much about all the time they spend in their cars driving to sales calls, meetings or even OfficeMax, but those work - related miles add up.

What we really need to do is focus on the big purchases — like cars and power plants — and provide the information and financing to help people make better choices.

Still, wealth doesn't necessarily equate to how well you know the market (and by far, most truly wealthy people don't splurge on items like overpriced cars).

What would be #revolutionary would be if he did that AND told people that we need to drive less and own fewer cars.

«I still get e-mails from people who boosted me from out of state, and donors who live nearby come to the shop for just about everything that needs to be done to their cars.»

After a week - long standoff with regulators last December when Uber argued that its cars do not meet the state's definition of an autonomous vehicle because they require constant monitoring by a person, Uber moved its self - driving cars from San Francisco to Arizona, a state with fewer regulations for autonomous vehicles.

They don't want to keep people in cars six or seven years.»

DiMartino Booth mentioned the consumer confidence report out Tuesday, which didn't show a real change in people's plans to buy homes or cars despite low unemployment and more money in pockets from gas savings.

Nothing I did for the rest of the trip was nearly as difficult — not hooking up or draining the waste tanks, not fixing a bad connection on the water hose, not even pulling into a crowded gas station (the thing about having a really big car towing a really big, shiny trailer is that people tend to see you, and maybe take pity, and certainly get out of your way)-- and nothing left me with such a giddy glow in the aftermath, even after I learned I'd pulled in a little bit catawampus, and our trailer listed slightly to the left.

«Don't determine that you're going to be happy when you get the new car or the big promotion or when you meet that special person,» explains John.

Zipcar's niche has focused serving people in urban markets who don't own cars but who have a need to use one from time to time.

«When people get in the car, they want to get the same experience as they do at home in front of their computer, their tablet or any consumer device,» El - Khoury said.

Self - driving cars aren't just for people who don't want to drive, says Elon Musk.

Nio doesn't just want to sell people cars — it wants to change how people see cars in the future.

People do think self - driving cars are more likely to be widely available, but I'm surprised the number is not higher.

They do not trust that hard work will get them where they want to be, or believe that the best way through life is to graduate, get a career, marry, buy a car and house, and have kids, although they know a few people who have done this.

The companies, which have collectively raised $ 255 million from venture capitalists, believe scooters are the next step toward a multimodal future, in which the typical person doesn't own a car, but cobbles together shared rides, bikes, public transit, and, yes, scooters, to get around.

Do cheap Uber rides push people to consider abandoning their own cars?

The ruling, however, did not shut down Uber's self - driving operations altogether, which would have likely caused a major setback to Uber's business, seeing as it plans to heavily rely on self - driving cars to service people in the near future.

«The bottom line is that many people that know how to fix a car don't know how to own an auto body shop,» he says.

Force millions of old people that were not going to do anything aside from watch Fox news all weekend to get in cars and drive does wonders for selling gasoline demand it seems.

The United States is turning into a nation of 1099 workers who eke out a living driving cars, renting rooms and running errands for people who apparently have better things to do with their time.

You can certainly make the case that a «business» has assets and thus value so it SHOULD be included, just like our cars or even homes for that matter (which some people also don't believe should go in there since you need one to live in), but for me it's just too unstable to be accounted for on an ongoing basis.

Do you know of people who rent a car for just the weekend or certain days to drive on the side?

There are too many people who don't want to give up the control, too many human - driven cars already in circulation, and human - driven cars will always be cheaper to buy because you don't have to pay for all the sensors and computers for the robot driving.

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.

Mails were replaced by emails, wagons and carriages were replaced by cars and trucks but the banking system remained obsolete and for the most part, there was no will and resolve to change the system because they have dominated and controlled the system for so long that they get to do whatever they like and people do not have a choice.

I remember losing the house, the office, the warehouse, the car, & putting the furniture on the front lawn for people to take it as I didn't even have the money to put it in storage... Even more horrible.

Well, when the fact that people didn't have that many of those electric cars out there, mean that there weren't enough of these, there weren't these stations out so he put the charging station before the car so that it would make the car more usable or user - friendly so to speak.

People do not need to find out about your car title loan.

«It got to the point where people were doing ridiculous things in the car,» says Chris Urmson, the leader of Google's self - driving car program.

«For example, what many people don't think about, particularly if their car is already paid for, is that they will likely need to replace their vehicles at least once or twice during retirement,» said Ilene Davis, a money manager with Financial Independence in Cocoa, Fla. «If they don't allow for the purchase price at the start, they may find their retirement planning undermined.»

Uber said its self - driving cars, which require a person at the wheel to monitor or control them, did not fall under that strict definition.

Family, freinds, lovers, neighbors, co-workers, the postman, people from your church, people you like, people you don't like, your ex-husband or ex-wife (I know you don't want to, but take one for the team), the cashier at Walmart, your child's teacher, the kid in the drive - thru window at McDonald's, the random encyclopedia salesman that knocks on your door while your eating dinner, the pushy car salesman who doesn't believe your «just looking,» the overweight plumber wedged under your kitchen sink

You wouldn't expect a person, who has never even looked under the hood of a car, to fix the carburetor at the first attempt, so don't expect to make that first million on your first trading day.