Sentences with phrase «says vehicle engineer»
«The fastest drivers go slightly quicker with all the systems turned off,» says vehicle engineer Martino Cavanna, mildly.
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To deal with a backlog of flawed parts and vehicles, said these current and former employees, Tesla has brought in teams of technicians and engineers from its service centers and remanufacturing lines to help with rework and repairs on site in Fremont.
The ST edition of the Edge sport utility vehicle that Ford introduces Thursday in advance of the Detroit auto show is powered by a 335 - horsepower twin - turbo V - 6 engine, engineered on the track and styled to look «sinister,» said its designer Steve Gilmore.
Musk himself is focusing time on Model 3 production because it is the «highest priority,» a Tesla spokesman said on Monday, saying that engineering chief Doug Field was focused on vehicle engineering.
The Army's expedited APS effort is being managed by a coordinated team of Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center engineers, acquisition professionals, and industry; it is intended to assess current APS state - of - the art by installing and characterizing some existing non-developmental APS systems on Army combat vehicles, Army officials said.
Waymo said engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files in December 2015 containing designs for autonomous vehicles before he went on to lead Uber's self - driving car unit in 2016.
For Krafcik, the integration of self - driving hardware and software is the trick, and that engineering challenge stands apart from what GM and Cruise have consistently said about the need to bring self - driving technology into the vehicle during the assembly process.
An engineer from nuTonomy will ride in the vehicle to observe system performance and assume control if needed, the company says.
Didi's designers and engineers envisage dedicated vehicles that will likely look very different to the cars used today for commuting and running errands, the people close to the company said.
Tesla founder Elon Musk said that Apple has hired a number of Tesla engineers and that he's «glad they're doing an EV [electric vehicle]».
Uber says that vehicles on the road today use off - the - shelf lidar technology from Velodyne, and that the in - house lidar the company's engineers are building was developed before Levandowski joined.
A statement signed by the managing director of the company, Augustus Amegashie, said «the current issue at stake has to do with the impounding of vehicles belonging to one of our sub-contractors, Engineers & Planners.»
Although the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Peter Amewu explained that the said company was doing nothing wrong, Mr. Mensah said he was waiting on official documentation from the Ministry before releasing the vehicles and equipment to the Engineers and Planners (E&P).
«My best guess is that they have managed to put the ECU into an unencrypted test state, possibly by playing around with power - up sequences,» says Peter Highton, a senior engineer with Freescale Semiconductor in Aylesbury, UK, which makes ECU microchips for racing cars as well as ordinary vehicles.
The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.
The engineering solution may be for NeMO to use solar - electric propulsion to turn around and fly back to Earth hauling an entire separate spacecraft that carries the goods from Mars, he says, or it could tote a special - purpose entry vehicle that's topped off with Mars regolith and rock for drop - off here at home.
Wireless power transfer technology may find use in a wide range of applications beyond powering electric vehicles, said Xiaofang Yu, an electrical engineer and postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University who led the research.
«Software can come in many different forms; it can simulate data, it can incorporate your algorithms, or it can be used for statistical analysis of your results — it's really a geomatics tool that can be used from end to end,» says Cannon, a professor of geomatics engineering at Calgary and an expert in the research and development of satellite navigation tools used by land, marine, and airborne vehicles.
«That tells us how we need to inform future vehicle engineering,» Drozd says.
Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.
But in the absence of federal law regulating the use of autonomous vehicles and driver - assist technology, the U.S. government could simply stand back and allow companies to put more self - driving cars on public roads to collect the necessary safety data, says Alain Kornhauser, a transportation engineer and adviser for Princeton University's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.
«In addition to advancing the wireless charging of vehicles and personal devices like cellphones, our new technology may untether robotics in manufacturing, which also are on the move,» said Shanhui Fan, a professor of electrical engineering and senior author of the study.
This suite of technologies fits along a spectrum from more passive, see - and - react types of systems to interoperable systems where vehicles can communicate across brands and from farther away, said Sue Bai, senior engineer at Honda R&D.
«Chrysler has been anxious to get back into racing for some time,» says Francois Castaing, vice-president responsible for vehicle engineering.
Dr. Bryan Glaz, chief scientist of ARL's Vehicle Technology Directorate said «an important motivation for this work is the desire to engineer new structures, starting from the nanoscale, to enable advanced rotorcraft concepts that have been proposed in the past, but were infeasible due to limitations in current composites.
«That's true under even the most optimistic assumptions for clean technology advancements in vehicles and power plants,» said study lead author Sarang Supekar, a mechanical engineering postdoctoral fellow at U-M.
«The engineers at Marshall were developing a simple adaptive control law, and wanted to flight test it,» said Chris Miller, chief engineer for the Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control (LVAC) project at NASA Armstrong.
«We are bringing together students and the world's best energy storage and powertrain engineers to tackle challenges in advancing vehicle technology,» said MaryAnn Wright, group vice president industry relations at Johnson Controls Power Solutions, which is the world's largest manufacturer of auto batteries.
On a more positive note: The maps are huge and unique in geography, the vehicles are very much fun to use, all of them, except maybe the inflatable landing boats, and the combat roles the different classes play out is refreshing: The sniper can lay down claymores and sit back, plinking enemies from, in some maps, perhaps up to a quarter of a mile away, considering he / she is good, and has a good gaming rig, the combat medic can heal allies, and revive those who were fragged, saving them from having to respawn back at base, the support guy can lay down suppressing fire and resupply his allies with ammo, the spec ops guy can sabotage bridges, vehicles, and team assets (such as artillery and UAV trailers) with sticky C4 charges (pity the soldier who takes off in a jet only to have it explode in midflight from a hidden c4 charge stuck on it's body), The engineer repairs vehicles and lays down anti-tank mines, the anti-armour troop works on destroying said vehicles with wire - guided rockets (note that the armour guy in bf2 has his own gun ALONG with a pistol, not just a pistol like in 1942), and the assault guy....
«The Sport can corner at about 1.0 g,» says Ian Garrett, the project's vehicle engineering manager.
«Electronics in vehicles needs to be intuitive; that's where we need to get to,» says Upton Bowden, manager - marketing and technology planning at auto supplier Visteon and a former electrical engineer at Ford.
``... we combined what is usually impossible: the quality and performance of a racing car with the practicality and durability expected from a road - homologated supercar which can be used as a day - to - day vehicle», said Phillippe Gautheron, Chief Engineer of Campos (who provided the Sandracer's roll cage and chassis).
That's all the engineer had to say, as he remained tightlipped about which other Ford performance vehicles would feature the all - wheel - drive system.
«Most customers prefer the 2.5 - liter engine, but some customers choose the [256 - hp] 3.6 - liter if they live in hilly areas or higher altitudes,» said Yoichi Hori, manager of the total vehicle performance integration department for Subaru's engineering division.
«Electric vehicles will absolutely play a role in Jaguar Land Rover's future product portfolio and Formula E will give us a unique opportunity to further our development of electrification technologies,» Jaguar Land Rover group engineering director Nick Rogers said in a statement.
However, I must say, I will continue to stay w German engineering because of the thrill of driving these vehicles.
They may get worse,» says Gerald D. Skellenger, GM hybrid vehicles engineer.
Engineers developing drivetrains for the new cars also say their research will help near - term vehicle development, particularly in the areas of increasing fuel economy and decreasing emissions.
«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.»
«Congress locked in that the standards have to be based on these forty - year - old tests that have nothing to do with the way people drive,» says David Friedman, senior engineer and deputy director of vehicles program for the Union of Concerned Scientists.
«I'd put this interior up against any vehicle on the road,» said chief engineer Mike Sweers.
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday it had opened an engineering analysis into nearly 600,000 Grand Cherokees and Durangos, from model years 2011 through 2013, because a potential short circuit could cause a fire near the sun visors of those vehicles.
«We set out to create a vehicle without compromise for young families,» says deputy chief engineer Takashi Goto.
«He said of course making many units is important, but perhaps more important — for engineers - is to have passion in creating a vehicle.
«Basically, we found that it comes down to the interplay between the vehicle's weight, its velocity and its trajectory,» said engineer Joseph Rachid El Hachem in a statement.
«It won't roll over until it reaches 53 degrees,» nonchalantly says Cameron Patterson, Bentley's director of whole vehicle engineering.
Although much of the engineering for the CrossBlue was handled in Germany, Volkswagen says this vehicle was designed exclusively for the United States and Canada, with plenty of input from Volkswagen's North American teams.
A vehicle this shape wants to lean, as mass will always have its say in the dynamic equation, but engineers found the right spring rates and antiroll bar thickness to limit body roll (lean) and enable rapid transitions.
«We are so excited and proud to unleash this vehicle to the public, driving it really makes you feel like a hero,» said Jamal Hameedi, chief engineer, Ford Performance.
«We develop every Jaguar vehicle to offer an unrivalled combination of agility and responsiveness with exceptional ride and refinement — and the all - new F - PACE is no exception,» said, Mike Cross, Chief Engineer of Vehicle Integrity, vehicle to offer an unrivalled combination of agility and responsiveness with exceptional ride and refinement — and the all - new F - PACE is no exception,» said, Mike Cross, Chief Engineer of Vehicle Integrity, Vehicle Integrity, Jaguar.