Sentences with phrase «road car efforts»

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Singapore is banning additional cars on its roads starting next February in an effort to curb over-congestion in the tiny city - state.

The consumer groupâ $ ™ s challenge comes amid reports that Waymo has provided all the necessary information to the DMV as part of its efforts to secure a permit to test driverless cars on public roads.

Reigning WEC champion and former Red Bull «number 2 driver» Mark Webber drove his Porsche 919 Hybrid as part of the launch of the new Porsche Panamera 4 E-Hybrid in an effort to demonstrate how technology from motor racing can transfer to road cars.

Although Chinese law mandates that cars get at least 35 miles per gallon fuel efficiency, a level the U.S. fleet won't reach until 2020, a large enough fleet of Chinese cars would forestall efforts to combat climate change or eliminate the other environmental challenges posed by paved roads, suburbanization and all that traffic.

The car understeers more emphatically, it takes a more determined effort to make the hot and grippy rear tires come unstuck, and the wide road suddenly narrows at the exit of the corner.

It could rival Google's autonomous car - testing efforts in Silicon Valley and adds the element of ice - and snow - covered roads, which semi-automated cars can't handle very well so far.

It's the same electric power steering rack as the road car and Niffenenger told me development took loads of time and effort.

You can't see the road which now dives over a slight summit but making a deliberate effort to stay a bit to the right before diving over the crest will help you to point the car to brake in a straight line for the hairpin.

By the time the larger tyres have been fitted the weight of the Schnitzer wheel and tyre combination is the same as the standard car, but to get that much extra rubber on the road without a weight penalty is a good effort.

for once again promoting a brand who's road cars as as bad if not worse than their F1 efforts of late.

Now, after more than a half - century of building road cars, the crew from Sant» Agata Bolognese is finally getting serious about motorsports, and the brand's entry - level offering, the $ 237,250 Huracán — the first model in company history engineered from the ground up for race duty — is at the center of its efforts.

It sits third, in fact, behind Ferrari and McLaren, but unlike either of those teams, Williams has never sold road cars to fund its racing efforts, instead — as the team itself puts it — it exists purely to race in the top echelon of motorsport, F1.

Our dealership has the most diverse inventory of used cars in Denver and we make every effort to ensure each used Toyota offered is reliable and ready for the road ahead.

Twisting roads make it clear that the 300 is a big car, but Chrysler's electric power steering lightens the effort needed.

With variable - effort steering doing its job, this really transforms the coupe into something that takes very little effort to drive, not to imply that it takes a great amount of effort to drive a Cadillac along the empty roads you see in car commercials.

Those efforts include 355bhp which, AMG claims, gives the 45 motor the highest specific output of any road car engine save the V8 in the back of the McLaren P1.

Much of the credit goes to Jamie Cullen, Ford supervisor for vehicle dynamics development, who led road test efforts to ensure the car delivered ultra-responsive steering, world - class braking and handling performance to match.

The car is a promotional effort behind the 2016 TEN Road Tour and commands attention for several reasons, chief of which is the 5.0 L Ford Coyote engine swap.

And Jamie Cullen, Ford supervisor for vehicle dynamics development, led road test efforts to ensure the car delivers ultra-responsive steering, braking and handling performance.

The car easily cruises down paved roads and powers through snow with little effort.

Admittedly the steering doesn't relay much road feel, but I like its consistently low effort — unlike so many modern cars, it doesn't fake «feel» by adding artificial resistance at higher speeds.

Thank goodness for Chevrolet's continuing racing efforts because this Stingray brims with technology adapted from the C6.R road race car.

Though it takes a bit more effort than one is usually used to expending on a power - steering equipped car, the system gives the driver an excellent feel of the road.

Ford boosted the on - road fuel efficiency of its three 2013 model year hybrids through changes in the cars» vehicle control software in an effort to improve customer satisfaction.

When the Straight Driving Assist system detects that continuous steering effort is being applied to keep the car driving along a slope, the Electric Power Steering system applies motor assist to reduce driver steering effort to the same level as is required on a flat road.

With an all - new chassis frame, front and rear suspension and steeringsystem, the new Ranger promises car - like comfort, reduced steering effort, more precise handling and better on - road stability.

The origins of the Camaro 1LE date back to 1988, when the package was first developed for the third generation car in order to make it more competitive in road racing efforts.

As the acronyms flow, and as people become more aware of the efforts of safety bodies such as the Australian New Car Assessment Programme (ANCAP), our roads are becoming safer places to be.

However, despite all of that power and Mercedes» efforts to keep its heft under control, the GLE 63 is no sports car — its great on fast, smooth roads, but tighter B - roads make the large SUV feel a bit cumbersome.

SEAT concentrates its efforts daily on increasing road safety by applying the latest breakthroughs on its cars and taking actions to help reduce road accidents, and over two million kilometres of endurance testing are proof that safety plays an important role in the new Ibiza.

New Car Test Drive said,... the 4Runner represents Toyota's best effort at delivering outstanding off - road capability with high levels of comfort and convenience for everyday use... It will save you money by keeping you on the road and out of the mechanic's garage.

Many performance cars focus their efforts so sharply on a particular metric that it serves as a detriment to the overall enjoyment of the car — an unyielding stiff suspension might be useful on certain track surfaces but it's invariably unpleasant on public roads, and a small chassis is great for lap times but less so when you need to go to Costco.

«The opportunity to work closely with FCA engineers will accelerate our efforts to develop a fully self - driving car that will make our roads safer and bring everyday destinations within reach for those who can not drive.»

These restrictions are meant to keep costs down, and to focus development efforts on powertrains, which Formula E's organizers have determined to be the area with the most possibility for technology sharing with road cars.

This car - based SUV seats five without effort and offers luxury while providing the grip of All Wheel Drive on the road when needed!

We were amused to see the cosmopolitan denizens of downtown San Francisco make every effort not to look at the car, whereas a road crew stopped work and stared, open - mouthed, as we rumbled by.

The road leading to the summit's car park is very steep and narrow although efforts to widen the road are on - going.

The energy efficiency efforts are expected to cut greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking more than 500 cars off the road and keeping them off the road for 20 years.

Efforts to garner facts and figures can help build a car, give it headlights to operate at night, but, if the operator is blind, there is certain to be a crash when there is a curve in the road.

As Founder and President of Environmental Progress, Michael led the grassroots environmental effort to save nuclear power plants in Illinois and New York, which prevented an increase in emissions equivalent to adding 5.7 million cars to the road.

One Reason It Makes The Cut A resurgent grassroots bike advocacy effort overcame fervent opposition and helped win approval of a road diet (replacing car lanes with bike lanes) on South Willamette Street, making a direct cycling route to downtown safer.

The automobile had been invented and entered mass production in the early 1900s, but just as the internal combustion engine started to prevail over electric cars at that time and mass production took hold with Ford's Model T bringing some cars and trucks into upper middle class households and into use by businesses and farms, the Great Depression and World War II dramatically reduced private personal consumption, so for the two decades from about 1929 until the several years after World War II that it took to convert factories from war production to civilian peacetime production, the automobile industry's private sector sales were greatly suppressed, domestic civilian road and bridge construction came to a near halt during World War II as government funds were diverted to the war effort, and domestic oil consumption was likewise suppressed.

The Ohio Department of Transportation was busy calling in drivers to handle the snow at 5 a.m. this morning, in an effort to get the highways clear, but despite these efforts nearly a dozen cars had gone off the road as a result of the snowy conditions by 9 a.m. Interstate 71 and Interstate 275 were both closed as a result of vehicle crashes caused by the snow.

The company did apply for and receive a permit for testing autonomous cars on public roads in California, but reports say that efforts to build a car from scratch have been scrapped in favor of focusing on autonomous software existing automakers can use.

«The opportunity to work closely with FCA engineers will accelerate our efforts to develop a fully self - driving car that will make our roads safer and bring everyday destinations within reach for those who can not drive,» said John Krafcik, CEO of Google's Self - Driving Car Projecar that will make our roads safer and bring everyday destinations within reach for those who can not drive,» said John Krafcik, CEO of Google's Self - Driving Car ProjeCar Project.

«The opportunity to work closely with FCA engineers will accelerate our efforts to develop a fully self - driving car that will make our roads safer and bring everyday destinations within reach for those who can not drive.»