Sentences with phrase «road test every year»

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Lyft announced a partnership earlier this year with GM to test a fleet of self - driving vehicles on public roads.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

It cost 5 million euros ($ 5232000) to build, and the road, with its 30,000 square feet of solar panels, is being tested over a two - year trial period to see if it can actually create enough energy to power the village's street lights.

The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber's ability to test self - driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49 - year - old pedestrian.

The next couple of years will be, if you will, the first road test for some of the biggest finance fixes inspired by the meltdown of 2008 - 2009.

The notification says that companies applying for public road tests should have already tested the cars in closed roads and areas, and that a driver with at least three years of experience should always be in the driving seat and ready to take over if necessary.

Fully autonomous cars are being tested on roads today, and the first commercially available semi-autonomous cars could be on the road in the next 1 - 2 years.

Firms have to record and store driving data for at least three years, and there's also a time limit on the road test period of 18 months.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

In a blog post on Medium Friday, chief technology officer Chris Urmson announced that effective immediately he was leaving the team after shepherding Google's pioneering effort through seven years and 1.8 million miles of road testing.

The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main testing ground, with 400 employees and more than 150 autonomous cars driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.

Project will further on - road testing in the Kanata North tech park, where BlackBerry conducted the first demonstration of an autonomous vehicle on a public street in Canada last year.

Ford Motor Co. said yesterday it will begin testing fully autonomous Fusion hybrid sedans on public roads in California next year.

Expectations are off the charts in Ann Arbor under second - year coach Jim Harbaugh, and the schedule includes high - difficulty road tests at Michigan State, Iowa and Ohio State.

There were a couple of little bumps in the road at winter testing, but Red Bull are heading into the season in a better place than this time last year.

I'm fourteen years old starting my road to recovery and it's very fearing and to know that I have to live with it scares the living daylight a out of me I can't speak much about my cognitive behavior therapy because I've only really doing assements but I'm writing this for myself and yourself I haven't always been religious but in times of fear and need know that you aren't alone God is always there and even wen your in your worse state I usally just lay down meditate a bit and speak to my father God and he always gives me a sense of relief this past week I feel like I have been a constant circle of fear but I would always freak out and be scared for no reason but just know that more than 44 million people have this you are br alone and one day you will meet your savior Jesus christ he put you in a test of life and he's going to congratulate you, you must wait for him and on another note if any one knows how to deal with the fear of the future or staying in a constant state please email me at [email protected] thank you so much everyone and there is a recovery maybe but today or Tommie but you will overcome

You're ultimately trying to decide on something that you're not just happy with and find useful on test driving day, but also several years (or even sometimes decades) down the road.

And Ellwood — who was hailed as a hero after this year's Westminster attack - went down the same road: «We are not witnessing our finest hour - at a testing time when poise, purpose and unity are called for.»

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.

Koch has raised his statewide profile this year with his NY Uprising PAC and its trio of reform pledges, which he used as a litmus test for dubbing candidates «heroes» or «enemies» of reform — a message he took on the road.

The first prototype test tires made with blends from dandelion - rubber are scheduled to be tested on public roads over the next few years.

The focus of intense research by automobile makers in recent years, ultracapacitors are finally being tested on the road.

But luckily, most Pap test results come back normal, meaning you can heave a sigh of relief and schedule your next exam years down the road.

Yup... I road - tested my bare legs this year in mid-April — that's surely some kind of record.

He looks on the Ivy League prospects of his teenaged son (Austin Abrams), the narrative engine that gets him out of his house and onto the road, as an apocalyptic test of his own failings in his formative years.

Gun Hill Road (Director and screenwriter: Rashaad Ernesto Green)-- After three years in prison, Enrique returns to the Bronx to find his wife estranged and his teenage son stumbling towards a transformation that will put the fragile bonds of their family to the test.

This year Onion City's opening - night program reflects this tendency even more: it includes a video by cult horror director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Tscherkassky's radical reworking of footage from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly in 35 - millimeter and «Scope, Andy Warhol's two 1966 «screen tests» with Bob Dylan, and best of all Abbas Kiarostami's half - hour Roads of Kiarostami.

As Carrie Upshaw, the president of Kingsport's board of education said sarcastically during the convocation celebration before the school year started last August, «We can survive whatever achievement autopsies and standardized tests that come our way, and we can get through the «Road to Insanity.

Focusing on the school leading the pack, the article describes how — in the two years Forrest Road Elementary has implemented Achieve3000 — its «Lexile score has zoomed by 142 points... measured by the Georgia Milestones Assessment System, the state's standardized tests.»

Many of those have been brutal, too, in the hands of road testers in big group tests (including evo Car of the Year) and on trackdays in my spare time, including one at Belgium's tricky Spa circuit.

The Google cars that have been on the road for years of testing have all been vehicles built by others that replaced the driver with Google tech.

On the market since about three years, the Mercedes M - class is up for its mid-life facelift in late 2008, but we have already snapped it undergoing road testing at -30 ° Celcius in Lapland earlier today.

We're heading for the right place to find out, for not only do we have a day put aside for road testing on the uniquely challenging tarmac of north Lincolnshire, but we also have a day booked at Blyton Park, venue for last year's eCoty track battles.

Google's autonomous car prototypes began on - road testing earlier this year, with Google aiming for 10,000 miles covered each week driving around Mountainview, California and Austin, Texas.

Road test editor Chris Nelson interviewed Paul Walker earlier this year.

Having spent the best part of 20 years making Chrysler Vipers go obscenely fast, culminating in a Veyron - trouncing test conducted by respected US magazine Road & Track in 2007, Hennessey got to thinking what could be achieved if he slotted his twin - turbo Viper powertrain into a truly light mid-engined platform.

DETROIT — Google plans to test its autonomous car prototypes on northern California roads «later this year» says Chris Urmson (below, right), director of the Internet search engine giant's self - driving car project.

Both tracks will operate year - round, entailing snow and ice that can blur road edges and lines that help cars steer autonomously — something Mountain View, California - based Google has not yet tested with its autonomous cars.

And after spending a year - long Four Seasons test with a 2014 Acura MDX, we had almost universal praise: «Looking back at all the road trips we took and apartment moves we made in the MDX, we struggle to remember a time the crossover let us down.

Over the course of our year - long Four Seasons test, we'll do our best to put the Fiesta ST's cargo capacity to the test, to take it on road trips, and to drive it through the worst conditions winter can throw at us.

Last year, JLR began testing autonomous and vehicle - to - vehicle communication tech on public roads in the U.K. Lyft recently partnered with autonomous tech firm nuTonomy and has a standing partnership with GM that provides access to Chevrolet Bolt EVs and other vehicles.

I asked how long, because the service and the road worthy test are meant to say that the car is expected to drive safe and no major repairs are expected to be needed in the next year.

Nissan is currently building a test facility in Japan with real roads and buildings — not simply cardboard mock - ups — where it will test autonomous driving technologies over the coming years.

What makes eCoty special, apart from the stunning locations we travel to and the roads we drive in order to put each car through its toughest challenge, is that a hot hatch is as likely to win as a six - figure supercar - and as you'll have seen from our previews, there are some fantastic examples of each in this year's test.

Recently, Volvo announced that a «road train» with cars following a lead vehicle filled with sensing equipment would be tested on Swedish roads this year, predicting that such convoys will be routine in Europe by 2020.

As for all the manual gearbox «involvement» none sense, once again a whole test assessment is polluted by the totally fictional «once a year 15 minute hoon on a testing / challenging B road».

Four years after moving to Michigan to be AUTOMOBILE's road test editor, I'm working out of our office in El Segundo, which now houses more than half of our editorial staff.

Unfortunately, the past 5,000 miles of testing our 2017 SUV of the Year winner have been slightly less exciting than that with our daily trail often encompassing 50 - 80 miles of pavement with only the occasional weekend off - road foray.

You'll receive a before & after dyno graph report showing power and torque measured at the rear wheels • Road testing (up to 200 miles) • Hennessey exterior badge (rear) • HPE1000 Powered by Hennessey badges (side & rear) • Hennessey HPE1000 serial numbered plaque signed by John Hennessey (interior) • Hennessey HPE1000 serial numbered plaque signed by the HPE technician who builds you car (engine bay) • Powered by Hennessey premium floor mats • 1 Year / 12,000 mile limited warranty.

ROAD TEST EDITOR JONATHAN WONG: We got to know the 2012 Honda Civic Si coupe real well when we rounded up seven performance cars starting under $ 30,000 last year.