Sentences with phrase «public vehicles for»

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When I asked him if he still believed that mutual funds were the best investment vehicle for 90 % of the investing public, he said that — what else could the CEO of Morningstar possibly say?

If you'd rather not have a vehicle of your own, the city has a growing network of public buses on the main boulevards which senior citizens can travel for free on.

He also worried that another vehicle for public mobilization, the press, was incapacitated by «the power of the corporate media.»

Audi just showed off its new 2019 A8, the first vehicle for market with Level 3 autonomy, and the automaker still needs to get approval from regulators around the world to enable the system for use on public roads.

The district's city council passed Public Vehicle - for - Hire Innovation Amendment Act late in 2012 to allow and regulate what the law referred to as «digital dispatch» companies including Uber, ending a long ban.

Jane felt compelled to air her dirty laundry in a very public forum, so clearly there wasn't a vehicle in place for her to safely express those concerns internally and give management a chance to adjust its behaviour.

«The department, along with the FDNY, is reviewing the feasibility of using unmanned aerial vehicles for joint search - and - rescue operations,» said an NYPD spokesman from the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information office.

«Automakers have been working to mitigate distraction in vehicles since we developed the first set of distraction guidelines in 2003 — years before this issue entered the broader public debate and a full decade before NHTSA published its guidelines for vehicles,» said the Alliance of Automotive Makers, an automotive trade group made up of 12 car and light truck manufacturers including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, GM and Toyota.

Because its shares can be freely traded among an unlimited number of owners, the C corp is the most tax - efficient vehicle for taking a company public.

Susan Alt, senior vice president of public affairs for Volvo Group North America, said the EPA's proposal «makes a mockery» of the company's investments to develop clean diesel engines and will «hurt a large number of small businesses who are not selling glider vehicles.»

German auto group Daimler AG (DDAiY) has been granted a license by the state of Nevada to test self - driving trucks on public roads, as the United States and Europe race to establish a regulatory framework for autonomous vehicles.

Krafcik has said he sees Waymo's self - driving car technology being used in an array of applications from personal vehicles and ride - sharing to logistics and solving so - called last - mile problems for public transport.

But this is the first time Waymo is providing details about its business model, the technology inside the vehicle, and its timeline for testing on public roads.

In February, Uber and CMU went public with a partnership deal that was to result in joint advances in research and development for maps, vehicle safety, and autonomous driving.

Seven companies have been issued permits letting them take their experimental vehicles out for a spin on the state's public roads.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

Almost 60 % of Singapore residents, for instance, make all their daily vehicle trips by public transit.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

For instance, public unit trusts, investment - linked insurance policies and public offer accumulated contribution superannuation funds are all, with minor variations, long - term savings vehicles.

The public and media are blowing the fatal crash involving the Tesla Model S completely out of proportion, with some already calling for a ban on semi-automated vehicles.

The fatal accident involving an Uber's self - driving vehicle and a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ over a week ago has called for the suspension of its public testing.

The state allows for the driving and testing of autonomous vehicles on public roadways, but requires the operator to obtain a $ 150 permit to drive in the state.

In addition, we believe that certain institutional investors, including sovereign wealth funds and public pension funds, could in the future demonstrate an increased preference for alternatives to the traditional investment fund structure, such as managed accounts, smaller funds and co-investment vehicles.

The delays by both Honda and Takata in alerting the public about the defect — and later in Takata's acknowledging it extended beyond a small group of Honda vehicles — meant other automakers like BMW, Toyota and Nissan were not aware of possible defects in their own vehicles for years, putting off their recalls.

Of course, these investments carry a lot higher risk thresholds which make them much less viable as investment vehicles for a majority of people, but regardless it's time for the technologies that have improved public markets for the individual investor to help them go private as well.

Public employee pension funds are vulnerable to being used as a vehicle for advancing political / social goals unrelated to shareholder interests generally.

Research curation as a vehicle for scientific insight and the public understanding of science Principal Investigator: Frank Bosco, Virginia Commonwealth University Co-Investigator: Piers Steel $ 50,000

Having a successful Canadian technology company IPO further solidifies the public markets as a vehicle for exits and capital raising.

«This has been weeks and weeks of those vehicles on the road for no apparent reason, and it's a huge public safety risk.

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

These skills have enabled him to sign numerous institutional clients for litigation and portfolio monitoring services, including public and private pension plans, investment management firms and sponsored investment vehicles, from both the U.S. and abroad.

An earnings - based public pension plan is a proven, efficient and effective vehicle to tuck away the savings needed for a secure retirement.

The move comes at a time of huge growth for China's electric - vehicle industry

Japan's SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to purchase a large chunk of shares in the upcoming initial public offering of Chinese electric - vehicle maker NIO, according to people familiar with the matter, a move that could...

As such, active tracking systems are great for those businesses that need to know where their vehicles are in real - time, especially those that are in the public transit systems or those that are trying to make their deliveries more efficient.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

«It is illegal for the company to operate its self - driving vehicles on public roads until it receives an autonomous vehicle testing permit,» Brian G. Soublet, deputy director of California's Department of Motor Vehicles, said in a letter to Uber.

With ground transportation — like TNCs, taxis, limos, and other rides - for - hire — that means ensuring public safety by ensuring that the vehicle is safe, the driver is safe, the consumer is safe, and the traffic rules are followed.»

Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

The Pope had given it his blessing, and it had become increasingly influential in the decades that followed, serving as a vehicle for lay Catholic participation in German party politics and for the protection of Catholic political and religious interests in German public life.

For his inaugural Mass and again on Palm Sunday, he opted for an open - air «popemobile,» foregoing the safety - glass - enclosed version that became the vehicle of choice for public processions following an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul For his inaugural Mass and again on Palm Sunday, he opted for an open - air «popemobile,» foregoing the safety - glass - enclosed version that became the vehicle of choice for public processions following an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul for an open - air «popemobile,» foregoing the safety - glass - enclosed version that became the vehicle of choice for public processions following an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul for public processions following an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II.

Modernity itself may well provide tools of powerful caritas, politically and otherwise, whose capacity should be taken hold of by Christians, not simply because talking the modern talk gives us more traction in the secular public square, but because modernity really does provide vehicles for transformative love in the Spirit of Christ.

When service is requested at a place so distant from the evaluator's headquarters that a total of one - half hour or more is required for the evaluator (s) to travel to such place and back to the headquarters or at a place of prior assignment on circuitous routing requiring a total of one - half hour or more to travel to the next place of assignment on the circuitous routing, the charge for such service shall include a mileage charge administratively determined by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and travel tolls, if applicable, or such travel prorated among all the applicants and certifying agents furnished the service involved on an equitable basis or, when the travel is made by public transportation (including hired vehicles), a fee equal to the actual cost thereof.

This is a first - of - its - kind investment vehicle leveraging public money to raise private capital for sustainable land management and landscape restoration activities worldwide that contribute to the achievement of land degradation neutrality, one of the global targets under Sustainable Development Goal no. 15 «Life on Land».

Bicycling as active transportation and healthy recreation is a fun way to experience the setting in a more natural way while also promoting public health, resource protection, and other economic and social benefits while also reducing vehicle congestion and contributing to the quality of life for surrounding communities.»

Eventually a program was started based on that experience that if law enforcement has information about a kidnapping in progress, they then contact the media who shares that information with the public so they can become first responders, eyes and ears, looking for a particular vehicle darting away with a particular child.

Hundreds of proud citizens wearing forest green, touring all the city «s parks on horseback and all - terrain vehicles, using police powers and good will as part of a giant public relations initiative for the Chicago Park District and its beleaguered chief executive, Jesse Madison.

For families where there is no access to a vehicle, relying on public transportation makes a simple trip to the grocery store as time consuming and arduous as a trip to the DMV.

Conclusions and Implications for Public Health Practice: Although the annual rate is declining, unintentional injury remains the leading cause of death among children and adolescents in the United States, led by motor vehicle traffic — related deaths.

While away for work meetings, I have also pumped in a moving vehicle, while sitting on a toilet in a public restroom, and in a room full of co-workers (with a cover of course).

The Thruway Authority is holding public hearings on the proposal to raise tolls by 45 percent for trucks and other commercial vehicles.