Sentences with phrase «road surface as»

Depending on where your location is, you will be taught how to drive in an icy and snowy road surface as well as driving in the rain.

However, their perspective is different than most: they consider the risk of an accident due to a slippery and wet road surface as something that the driver should somehow have overcome.

Continental is developing a new system called Road Condition Observer that uses vehicle sensors and cloud data to classify a road surface as dry, wet, covered with snow or icy and to assess the grip of the road surface.

In the new car there's the slightest glaze of fuzziness that wasn't there before — it could be the four - wheel - steer, could be the redesigned front axle, could be a bit of both — but the wheel doesn't give you quite as high - definition a picture of the road surface as it used to.

Forty - five minutes later, it was up to how the four - wheel - drive Mercedes - Benz GL450 with its Pirelli Scorpion Ice & Snows tackled traffic and slick road surfaces as temperatures hovered around zero degrees Fahrenheit.

Not exact matches

Usually, when I'm driving through the back roads of my suburban hometown listening to Something Corporate as loud as possible, I feel a tiny, twisting punch of anxiety just beneath the surface of my chest.

Freud treated dreams as «the royal road to the unconscious,» a thesis that served his general conviction that consciousness, the reasoned control of life, constitutes only the surface part of the energies that propel or immobilize persons.

As physics students will know well, the slight differences in path length for waves superposing cause interference patterns, rather like the rainbow effect on a patch of oil on the road or the colours formed by the surface of a DVD.

The blocks are strong enough to be used as a subgrade material under road surfaces.

Some even suggest that they are easier on the body than marathons due to the softer surface of the trails versus paved roads, as well as the focus on grueling determination rather than speed.

For taking a stroll on the roads in your city home, the smaller wheels can be positioned to the front area but if you are holidaying in countryside, the larger wheels need to be positioned in front as it will make navigation easier on such uneven surfaces.

Old Sturbridge Village Curator Tom Kelleher notes that snow in early New England was actually welcomed by travelers, saying, «Instead of plowing roads clear after a storm as we do today, in the 1800s teams of horses and oxen were driven out to trample the snow down, leaving a hard packed surface for sleighs.

The front wheels can also be locked for more stability on uneven surfaces such as grass and bumpy roads.

It goes over a variety surfaces such as dirt trails and roads, cracked sidewalks, gravel and bike trails with ease because of the nice - sized 16» wheels.

Also referred to as a fitness or sport utility stroller, an all - terrain stroller has three wheels that are ideal for taking baby off - road over gravel, lawn, trails and other rough surfaces.

This is an all - terrain stroller that can go over variety surfaces such as dirt trails and roads, cracked sidewalks, gravel and bike trails.

Tips are provided below to help you with road travel safety as well as choosing the safest portable sleeping surfaces.

The Jeep Liberty Urban Terrain Stroller is a great relief for parents as it is fantastic for use on different roads surfaces.

While this stroller is great on smooth sidewalks and pavement, it does not do so well on bumpy surfaces such as gravel or off - road areas.

At present, surfaces of old roads riddled with what observers say are best described as not potholes but «manholes» and «valleys», are being removed in some communities to pave way for reconstruction at the visit of the President.

There, local or regional state transportation workers will re-purpose the panels which can serve as the road surfaces for smaller bridges.

As an example, Kaehny noted all three have different standards for rating the condition of pavement, which means each uses different timetables to determine when a road surface needs repaving.

Good for running on most conditions, especially on roads and solid surfaces (they may even be the best running shoes for treadmills), these shoes have a good amount of space within the toe box for wider feet as well.

As the seams smoulder away, the ground above them becomes prone to collapse — taking with them any houses, roads or other infrastructure built on the surface.

Another possibility is to fit low - noise tyres or high - pore road surfaces, which Kim describes as «amazingly quiet».

Urbanization reduces the amount of vegetation in a habitat and increases impervious surfaces such as roads and rooftops.

«These strategies range from lighter colored roofs or road surfaces» that could reflect sunlight, cooling cities, «to something as controversial as putting particles high in the stratosphere,» explains Ken Caldeira, a climate modeler at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University.

They found that by shaving off the peaks and irregularities that dot the surface of concrete pavement (top images) with a machine that is essentially a large drum encrusted with diamond dust, workers can reduce road noise by as much as 10 decibels — or nearly half.

Another dramatic ecological change is caused by the spread of impervious surfaces, such as paved roads and roofs.

By JOHN BONNER As more and more of the Earth's surface is swallowed up by towns, roads and agriculture, pressure grows on the remaining areas of truly wild habitat.

Roadways and impervious surfaces such as parking lots and sidewalks are reliable proxies for road salt application because as developed areas, they are susceptible to high levels of salting and runoff.

Research shows that fitting tires with very low rolling resistance, combined with the right road surfacing, can provide just as much noise reduction as traditional noise barriers.

The experiments were carried out on test tracks with a wide variety of road surfacing textures, as well as on ordinary public roads and in the laboratory.

An ever - expanding network of roads, railways, rivers, and shipping lanes means that only 10 percent of the earth's surface is now remote, defined as being at least 48 hours away from a major city.

It is strong enough for use as the layer of road that sits under the surface and provides foundational support (Construction and Building Materials, doi.org/bfrd).

Bettencourt and his colleagues at Arizona State University (A.S.U.), Dresden University of Technology in Germany and New Mexico's Santa Fe Institute, modeled the growth of a city according to three categories of factors: material infrastructure (road surfaces, electrical cable, etc.), human needs (such as total energy consumption and housing) and patterns of social activity, including total bank deposits, research and development, new cases of AIDS and new patents filed.

Finally, there could be some unknown dynamic mechanism that makes the plates skip against each other as they slide, much as a car's skidding tires make microskips across a road's surface.

In this way, changing driving environments can be generated, such as roads in the neighborhood known to the learner, but also different traffic situations, weather conditions, and road surface properties.

Surfaces such as asphalt roads and concrete buildings absorb and then radiate a lot of solar energy, which can leave urban areas 6 to 8 degrees Celsius warmer than rural regions.

And of course anti-skid tire chains, which in 2013 are mostly not allowed on private vehicles even in the depths of winter as they tear up road surfaces too much.

Accurate forecasts for road surface temperatures are important as, when it is possible to anticipate the freezing of the road surface, roads can be salted in time and motorists warned about the slippery conditions.

Other characters, including a grifter known as T (Chris Noth) and a fence named Cokebottles (Pruitt Taylor Vince of Heavy), surface before different double - crosses lead to the final road rendezvous.

As for the wet - weather, well, I'd guess you know how wet roads make for slick surfaces.

It soon became apparent that the Q50 was probably not best suited to this road, as I veered from side to side on the twisting descent to pick a route across the broken surface.

That's space as in wide roads, flowing curves, third - and fourth - gear sweepers, and smooth surfaces.

Without sacrificing ride comfort, your car can run with far stiffer springs — in the case of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS, twice as stiff as standard — reducing squat, dive and roll, and keeping the tyres in better contact with the road surface, while improving steering response and stability, too.

As soon as the road surface quality improves, the Bugatti is instantly at ease, displaying that rare and familiar mix of agility, sure - footedness, and controAs soon as the road surface quality improves, the Bugatti is instantly at ease, displaying that rare and familiar mix of agility, sure - footedness, and controas the road surface quality improves, the Bugatti is instantly at ease, displaying that rare and familiar mix of agility, sure - footedness, and control.

You'll need to factor in the extra length the caravan or trailer adds to your vehicle, the road surface (such as bumps), and consider the extra work your car must do to get to the correct speed.

The varying road surfaces mean any road - centric cars can become virtually useless as soon as you head off the beaten track, which means a beefed up off - roader is almost always the best choice for most races.

As one of the roads used in the World Rally Championship, it was a challenge for hard - charging drivers as they switched from the slippery stages in the nearby Cambrian forests to this grippy and narrow surfacAs one of the roads used in the World Rally Championship, it was a challenge for hard - charging drivers as they switched from the slippery stages in the nearby Cambrian forests to this grippy and narrow surfacas they switched from the slippery stages in the nearby Cambrian forests to this grippy and narrow surface.