At the Intelligent Transportation Systems World Congress last week, MIT researchers received one of the best - paper awards for a new system, dubbed RoadRunner, that uses GPS - style turn - by - turn directions to
route drivers around congested roadways.
Not exact matches
Ajayi, who said four adults and a child lost their lives in the unfortunate incident, noted that the accident occurred
around 6.19 a.m. on Friday, blaming it on
route violation by the truck
driver.
The billionaires who run Uber want new laws that give their loosely regulated business model a clear path to passengers and profits — and a bypass
route around local attempts to help
drivers and people with disabilities.
On each delivery
route, the
driver finds the tablet loaded with the satnav
route around the customers» addresses.
Taxi
drivers have to navigate
around London while bus
drivers follow a limited set of
routes.
SiriusXM Traffic Plus works with the vehicle's navigation system to display traffic speed and flow information, along with accident information to assist
drivers in
routing around congested areas
Other features fitted as standard include dual stage front airbags; side and curtain airbags; a Bose premium audio system; AudioPilot active noise cancellation, which neutralises road, wind and other intrusive noises by sending out an opposite phase signal through the audio system; Active Front Lighting System (AFS) featuring directional lighting; keyless entry; satellite navigation with a voice recognition function and RDS - TMS to help the
driver plot a
route around traffic congestion; and a rear view camera to assist parking.
On one 20 - mile suburban
route, we co-rode in an Two Eco driven by another publication's
driver who after pre-charging the battery by mildly increasing engine revs with brake on got
around 55 mpg overall on secondary roads with some higher speed sections.
The
route was blessedly low - traffic, so I wasn't able to test the
driver aid features (adaptive cruise control, blind - spot monitoring and semiautonomous parking, among others), but I did get to play
around with the standard Android Auto, MirrorLink and Apple CarPlay connectivity, as well as the optional OEM navigation.
The system includes the HD Digital Traffic feature, which alerts the
driver to current traffic conditions and can display alternate
routes around gridlock.
Drivers can call up a weather forecast for locations
around the country, and the system will also warn about severe weather along a programmed
route.
Other than those issues, I found
route guidance worked very well, using traffic data to
route around jams and giving voice prompts in plenty of time for the
driver to recognize a turn.
The
driver taking this
route is usually finished
around 1:00 p.m. on Friday.
It's a no - fuss way to get
around town that completely eliminates taxi
drivers taking roundabout
routes.
It seems like Ubisoft decided to follow Fast and Furious or the more recent Need For Speed
route and have tried to create a story that revolves
around cars and their
drivers.
City roads and highways are more unsafe than other roads, and because student
drivers are inexperienced, they are charged higher rates if their common driving
route is
around the city.
According to its sources Uber created fake Lyft accounts and used those to trick its rival's system into believing that prospective customers were seeking rides in various locations
around a city — allowing it to see which Lyft
drivers were nearby and what prices they were offering for various
routes, presumably so it could set its own prices to undercut its rival and poach customers.