Sentences with phrase «safety car driver»

Safety car driver and four - time Le Mans winner Yannick Dalmas found out just how slippery the track was during a reconnaissance lap with this big sideways moment.

The car boasts a cool 585bhp and a top speed of 318km / h and will give the recurring safety car driver Bernd Maylander plenty to play with.

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In the U.S., a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into the 2016 death of Tesla driver Joshua Brown concluded that his over-reliance on Autopilot contributed to his car's collision with a tractor - trailer.

General Motors (gm), which pioneered the connected car with its OnStar concierge service, sent a software update to million of vehicles in December, introducing an e-commerce system that lets drivers order coffee or make restaurant reservations while driving — to the chagrin of some safety advocates.

Customers will be able to call cars with a special app at any time of day, and each vehicle will have a safety driver behind the wheel.

The voluntary decision by automakers to introduce highly advanced — and costly — safety technology speaks to the accelerating pace of development toward self - driving cars, which take over many decisions and actions once the exclusive province of the driver.

Attackers tried to get in the car but our brave @uber driver maneuvered us to safety, changed the tire on the freeway and got us home.

Up to that point, Google had quietly sent early versions of the car, with a «safety driver» behind the wheel, more than 100,000 miles in California.

In the time that it takes for the driver to fully recognize that he or she is about to crash, the car is programmed to swerve into safety.

A safety driver and support engineer will ride in each nuTonomy car, the two companies said in a statement.

Customers input their destination, the car drives itself there, with the safety driver only taking over if the system needs it to.

If a self - driving car is available when one of these customers hails an UberX, they will be greeted by a car with close to two dozen cameras and sensors, along with one engineer and one «safety driver» in the front seats.

Such as: Self - driving cars have to become legal to drive without a safety driver; users will have to want to get in a self - driving Uber; and, perhaps most importantly, Uber will have to buy and trick out enough cars with self - driving technology to make it worth the investment.

According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, some of the smallest cars on the road have the highest driver fatality rates.

For example: During the week ending March 8, the 43 active cars on the road only drove an average of close to 0.8 miles before the safety driver had to take over for one reason or another.

Uprooted trees and widespread flooding blocked many highways and streets across the island, creating a maze that forced drivers to go against traffic and past police cars that used loudspeakers to warn people they must respect a 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by the governor to ensure everyone's safety.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

But as Singapore's official partner, nuTonomy is laser focused on its goal of meeting the many technical milestones — of deploying self - driving cars without safety drivers, for example — that the government has set.

Since the crash, those reports have said, Tesla has updated its Autopilot feature to include a strikeout system, whereby drivers who repeatedly ignore safety warnings risk having their Autopilot disabled until the next time they start the car.

Autonomous cars should be required to meet standards on their ability to detect potential hazards, and better ways are needed to keep their human drivers ready to assume control, U.S. auto safety and technology experts said after fatal crashes involving Uber Technologies and Tesla vehicles.

It appears to have taken place during the safety car, just before the restart as drivers were warming up their tyres (and Valtteri Bottas dropped his Mercedes) after the switch to dries.

That NASCAR hasn't had a fatality in one of its three national divisions since 2001 is a testament to its steadfast commitment to safety, including requiring drivers to wear head - and - neck restraints, tracks to install energy - absorbent barriers, and stringent rules covering the construction of cars so that when a crash does occur the driver doesn't bear the brunt of the impact.

It created a bit of a mess so the safety car was sent out, but with drivers battling for position not everyone noticed the yellow flags and two cars collided back in the pack, sending one car into a roll.

In a race that featured a two - hour rain delay and six safety car periods, Button managed to collide with two drivers - teammate Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso - and also had to serve a penalty for speeding behind the safety car.

After the race Trulli was penalised for overtaking Hamilton behind the safety car, putting the McLaren driver on the podium.

F1 rules say if that happens a driver isn't allowed to regain their grid position once they've passed the first safety car line and must start the race from the pits.

Hamilton pitted at the end of the virtual safety car and gained time on Vettel, so when the Ferrari driver exited his stop (on medium tyres, compared to Hamilton's softs) he was side - by - side with the Mercedes.

Drivers were spinning off everywhere and the safety car had to come out for a few laps.

The safety of the drivers is not being overlooked: To prevent wheels from whipping into the cockpit, the IRL says the flexible, two - foot cables will be attached to its cars as far from the driver's seat as possible.

Teams will only be able to talk to their drivers during yellow flag and safety car periods, for safety instructions, or if the driver is in the pitlane.

Earlier on there were also some bizarre crashes behind the safety car, including two drivers losing control and hitting the barrier.

The Red Bull drivers had the chance to do so well in the Chinese GP because they took the gamble of pitting for fresh rubber behind the safety car.

Moving to the mid-way point of the race, after a long safety car for that lap one clash, and it was two more Jenzer drivers in the wars.

It's a pretty common rule across motorsport that when restarting a race after a safety car period, drivers shouldn't suddenly speed up and then slow down again.

Romain Grosjean's Chinese Grand Prix was destroyed by the Safety Car with the Haas driver finishing a disappointing 17th.

Alonso was another driver who benefitted strongly from the Virtual Safety Car, climbing all the way to P5 for his best finish in Australia since 2014.

Alonso was leading the Red Bull driver at the Australian Grand Prix when the Virtual Safety Car came out for Romain Grosjean's stricken Haas.

Clearly the contact between the Toro Rosso drivers which caused the Safety Car period was not intentional (nor was it guaranteed to bring out a Safety Car — sorry, conspiracy fans!)

On the safety front, we didn't take car seats, and found (from our experiences in taxis without the kids) that the taxi drivers seemed to drive much more carefully when we had the kids in the back with us.

Car seat safety is one of the basics that all parents need to know, and with teen drivers» inexperience, there's a whole new element of danger involved.

This train comes with a lot of accessories: a buildable tree, two figurines (train driver and car driver), flowers, crates of apples and pumpkins for loading the car, and an open level crossing, which can serve as a way to educate your young child about railroad safety.

Information about car seats and other types of road safety are often specific to the child, the vehicle and the driver.

Our certified Child Passenger Safety Technician (CPST) is knowledgeable about all car seats and educates drivers about best practices for car seat use in different situations.

Slosberg said he'll be happy keeping his focus on the work of his Dori Saves Lives foundation, set up in memory of his daughter who died in a car crash, and dedicated to improving road safety, especially for young drivers.

Cuomo's announcement this week that Lower Manhattan's congested streets would play experimental backdrop to autonomous cars — with drivers behind the wheel to to bolster safety — blindsided the de Blasio administration, according to City Hall.

At a roundtable talk with cab industry officials and state Assembly lawmakers in Manhattan today, Uber faced pushback from its taxi and livery car competition over a bill they argue would allow less stringent driver background checks, rider safety standards and insurance coverage than NYC requires for the app's drivers.

He said licensed taxi companies act as an ambassador for the city, so drivers and cars need to be checked for safety and cleanliness before they hit the streets.

(Caveat: That impressive figure, pulled from a study commissioned by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, excludes intoxicated drivers and assumes that everyone on the road is driving a talking car, that every intersection and stop sign in America can join in the conversation, and that the auto industry agrees on standardized equipment for all this chatter.)

Early reports indicate that a human safety driver was at the wheel, and the car was in autonomous mode.

Since current self - driving safety assurances aren't exactly airtight, Koopman argues that self - driving cars should be held to a way higher standard than human drivers — say, 10 times safer than the average human — before they're given the green light.