Sentences with phrase «says short car»

Find out why pediatrician Lane France says short car trips are fine from day one, but air travel should wait.

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Since GM's driverless cars are years away from hitting the road as part of Lyft's service, the automaker plans to provide short - term car rentals (for a day, week or month) to Lyft drivers in the immediate future, as well as lease financing through its GM Financial arm, said Ammann.

The car maker, which has consistently fallen short of promised production targets and is fighting bad publicity over a fatal crash of a car using its Autopilot system, said 10 days ago it would have positive cash flow from the third quarter.

Aaron, a member of an S.H.O. enthusiast club, says Ford is short - sighted for getting rid of a car with a loyal following.

In addition, Waymo said it has now developed short and long range LIDAR sensors that allow its vehicles to «see small people and objects close to the car, and spot tiny objects far away, too,» the CEO said.

Short of building entire cars, there is money to be made from the software to run a self - driving vehicle, as well as the services associated with autonomous driving, such as mapping, car - sharing and car recharging services, the auto source said.

«What that means in short is that he understands the back - end workings of the business well enough that he could rebuild them himself (well, almost), and he also cold calls customers and says things to journalists aimed to warm consumers» hearts, such as: «On Valentine's Day in Chicago, we had every driver give every woman who got in the car a rose.

He said he maintained the car himself — something that, in a time of embargo and limited parts, is nothing short of herculean.

«I expect the car rental industry to stay very competitive in the short term in both corporate and leisure segments,» said Doyle Gunnell, global project manager of ground transportation at Carlson Wagonlit Travel.

In its filing, Waymo said it was inadvertently copied on an email from one of its suppliers with drawings of Uber's circuit board design for its lidar technology, short for light detection and ranging,» that are laser - based sensors used in self - driving cars.

In short, says Brooks, they wanted to make sure they didn't get another Days of Thunder, the much - reviled (at least in racing circles) 1990 Tom Cruise film, which featured, among other cinematic inventions, scenes of Robert Duvall as a good - ol» - boy team owner who assembles stock cars in a barn.

Haas team boss Steiner says the complaints are nothing but jealousy from rivals who fell short in their task of designing a fast car.

A patrol officer, who had a description of the car from an employee, stopped the two men a short distance from the Dominick's, officials said.

Maybe she said, «Hmm... I think I'll drive somewhere,» and she then proceeded to get into her car, without preparing bottles and putting them on ice, and checking the bag for extra pairs of underwear and shorts and diapers, and wipes, and a bag of animal crackers (and then locating anything on that list that happened to be missing).

Tesla said it had produced almost 10,000 Model 3 electric cars in the first three months of 2018, a significant increase from the fourth quarter of last year but still short of the goal that investors hoped the company would reach.

«Tempers are short when you can't get on a subway car that is overcrowded, that on the subway car somebody inadvertently with a backpack swings around and ends up striking you,» Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said during the press conference at NYPD headquarters.

In the short - term, he said, the MTA amended its capital plan about a month and half ago and moved over $ 1 billion from signal fixes and new subway cars «to things like subway station beautification.»

«If you said to me a boom could fall across the Tappan Zee Bridge at noon, not hit a car, not hit a person and there were no serious injuries, I wouldn't believe it,» Gov. Cuomo told reporters in Tarrytown after cutting short an event in the Finger Lakes to fly by helicopter to the scene.

«The car, the driver and the point of departure all therefore changed within a very short space of time,» Lord Stevens said.

«A heads - up display using our new technology installed in a car would allow a driver to see the displayed information even if he or she moved around or was shorter or taller than average,» said research team leader Pierre - Alexandre Blanche of the University of Arizona, USA.

The best cure short of building more roadways and reducing the number of cars that drive on them, traffic experts say, is semiautonomous driving.

SHANGHAI (Reuters)- BMW will start delivering imported electric cars in China in September, with pre-orders indicating short supplies in a market that could become the world's biggest for green vehicles, China president Karsten Engel said on Wednesday.

«If you are in a car and want to stop within a certain fixed, short distance — without too much jerk — it's best to apply the brakes evenly rather than all at the end so passengers feel a constant deceleration force,» he says.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

(Although I will state the case for skirts — usually they cover the back of your legs when you sit down in the hot car — ha ha) I know many women my age tend to pooh pooh shorts saying their legs aren't perfect — my answer is always — my whole body isn't perfect (there's this huge scar right on the front of my face and you don't see me covering it up with pants).

When I'm saying that they can restrict the movement I mean that climbing the ladders it's more difficult, entering a car it's harder and you have to make short strides when walking.

People say life is too short to be merry, see other cultures, drive fast cars, travel to interesting places, make a ton of money and help a lot of people.

thats total bull, regardless of what people say, 60 fps is not just about how smooth the game looks, it also makes a massive difference in how the game feels, some people may not be able to notice between 30 an 60 fps, but most will be able to feel the difference, an the human eye an defo see it, but most gamers, do nt know or understand it, an so do nt notice it, but the eye can see it, for games, 60 fps is the holy grail, when console games are standard 60 fps, native 1080p, then an only then will we be in gaming nirvana, LOL but serious, i agree with u that if a game is locked at a constant 30 fps, then most times thats fine, for not for a racer, an for a sim racer is even worse, 60 fps makes the input lag the shortest it can possibly be, an so makes a massive difference on how the game feels, an how responsive it is, an aslo when racing a car, 60 fps helps you feel the speed allot more then 30!

Despite the fact that the first Ford Mustang arrived some 34 years before evo landed on the newsstands in 1998, it's fair to say we've had a fairly short relationship with the American muscle car.

Spyker says that the car is capable of the same 4.5 - second sprint to 60 mph as the short - wheelbase C8, thanks largely to better traction off the line.

Other than that, its a great car (I was going to say little, you think it'll be little as it looks a bit like a Smart from the front - but its fairly big) particularly if you travel around town, do lots of short journeys etc..

And when we say teensy, we mean it: the iQ may be 14.0 inches longer than a smart fortwo, but it's 19.5 inches shorter in length than a Fiat 500 and 26.5 inches shorter than a MINI Cooper — which was the smallest car sold in America only a few years ago.

Just about the only complaint was the genetic lottery's fault more than the car's: «I wish I was 3 or 4 inches shorter so I fit inside the Mazda a little better,» said 6 - foot - 1 Mac Morrison.

«Everybody would love a 200 mph car,» says Aston senior vehicle engineering manager Craig Jamieson, «but this is a sports car with a short final drive, not a supercar.»

«Because of the short wheelbase you can change from understeer to oversteer in a snap second,» he says, but adds that the car is very adjustable, very open to suggestion: «You can do ten laps and have ten different experiences at the same corner.»

With the F12tdf's 7 - speed dual - clutch transmission now fitted with shorter gear ratios and 30 percent quicker upshifts, Ferrari says the car will rocket to 62 mph in just 2.9 seconds, 124 mph in 7.9 seconds, and on to a top speed «in excess of» 211 mph.

In short, it does exactly what it says on the Pininfarina - sculpted tin; it's a GT rather than a sports car, and that's no bad thing.

The C&D article said the 911's short wheelbase gave it «ride jitteriness» - so neither car apparently provides reviewers with a reasonable ride.

Hyundai says that the car will be positioned between the Elantra and Sonata, which explains its size: at 185.4 inches long, 71.7 inches wide, and 57.9 inches tall, the Mistra is marginally smaller than the Sonata (189.8 inches long, 72.2 inches wide, 57.9 inches high), and with a 0.9 - inch - shorter wheelbase (109.1 inches versus 110.0).

Long story short, dealer says is wasn't pre-existing - despite my showing them a picture of a rusted ding on the car frame where something had hit the windshield.

During the address, chairman Rupert Stadler said that «co-operation» with Porsche (basically nicking its J1 EV platform) had lowered the potential development costs for such a car by hundreds of millions of Euros and made possible a much shorter production timescale that should see it hit showrooms in 2020.

Jaguar says the XF chassis is now 75 percent aluminum, and the car is also slightly shorter and around two inches longer than before, and offers up more passenger room.

It's neither expected to be the longest nor the tallest car in its segment, but will be at par with the widest car in the segment, the Ciaz.That said, it might have the shortest wheelbase amongst competition.

The agency said the practice is most common with fairly new vehicles that accumulate significant mileage in a short period, such as rental and company cars and leased vehicles.

It was 15 degrees and snowing when we took it out for a test drive and after a few short minutes on the highway my wife and I looked at each other and said «we love this car.»

All future cars from Polestar will be Electric Performance Vehicles but the Polestar 1 bridges today's technology with the future, offering the perfect drivetrain for a Grand Touring Coupé that's likely to be used over longer distances as well as shorter, faster, enjoyable journeys,» said Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath.

The Driver's Perspective «Lime Rock is sports car racing's version of a short - track speedway,» said Corvette Racing driver Ron Fellows.

My car doesn't have the rear - view camera like this one, but I am quite tall so I can see out better than shorter drivers,» Joanna said.

The car also was nearly a foot shorter than the previous version; Ford said this was done to make the car more «contemporary.»

It's still too early to say if we will see the new Astra in Australia wearing a Holden badge so — short of getting yourself to the Frankfurt Motor Show in September for the car's first public showing — you'll simply have to look at these pics to be the judge.