Sentences with phrase «slow drivers down»

There are no enforced speed limits, and speed bumps are often the only thing to slow drivers down.

Basically, she is saying that like jaywalking rules, created to get pedestrians out of the way of cars, texting while walking is slowing drivers down and creating a burden for them that has to be legislated out.

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Earnings growth has been the foremost driver of stock price appreciation throughout the nine - year bull market — but what happens if it slows down?

You can then shoot a text or make a phone call asking the diver to slow down, or address the behavior the moment the driver returns to the office.

If it is, in fact, correct that profit expansion is set to slow down, it marks yet another driver that could hasten a risk sell - off.

The system, already available in some vehicle models, uses sensors and radar to determine when a vehicle must slow down; it then begins to flash a warning and apply brakes, slowing or stopping the vehicle even if the driver fails to do so.

I was walking down the street the other day and as I crossed a driveway a car came speeding out, the driver didn't slow down at all, missing me by a few inches.

Upon detecting no hands, an alert will go off and will slow down the vehicle until the driver's hands are back on the steering wheel.

The system frequently checks if the driver's hands are on the steering wheel, and it will provide alerts and slow down the vehicle if it detects otherwise.

The Canadian consumer isn't showing signs of slowing down and is poised to remain the key driver of growth in 2017.

The driver states that he did, however, slow down for the stop sign.

After several whacks, the police officer asks the driver if he wanted «him to slow down or to stop»!!

The truck driver saw Dawie, but thought he was just picking up a hat and instead of slowing down the driver changed lanes, and hit him on the wrong side of the road.

Hamilton was being interview by Sky Sports when Vettel cheekily questioned the Mercedes driver for «not slowing down for animals» and then spent a good few minutes trying to get the Sky crew to show the incident in question.

Instead of staying well out of the way, the driver tried to enter the pits and stopped just before the entrance, causing drivers to have to suddenly slow down and go around it.

A nasty accident in at Barbagallo during the Western Australia Formula Vee championship shows the nasty consequences of what happens when drivers unexpected slow down

With cars slowing down and facing the wrong way, numerous other drivers were unsurprisingly caught up in the incident as the F4 machines scattered.

But instead of leaving the matter in the hands of the stewards, a furious Glock decided to make his anger towards the Mercedes driver known by deliberately slowing down and weaving in front of him.

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.

«Many passengers tell drivers to speed rather than asking them to slow down», he said, and that they need to voice out against reckless and dangerous driving to avoid accidents.

Bloomberg wants NYC drivers to slow down, and has created «slow zones» in more than a dozen neighborhoods, reducing speed limits from 30 to 20 mph, to force them to do so.

Drivers in New York now have to slow down and move over for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers as well as police and maintenance vehicles along roadsides.

The aim in getting New York drivers to slow down is to prevent crashes and protect New Yorkers from injury and save lives.

Another Limestone County neighborhood is begging commissioners to consider speed bumps to slow down drivers.

«My message to drivers is slow down,» City Councilman Daniel Dromm (D - Jackson Heights) said when the Department of Transportation and area leaders announced its implementation Monday.

Cashless toll systems allow drivers to pass under cameras on toll roads without slowing down, and the state then bills the motorists later.

They slow drive times down and waste gas, but the city of Syracuse is working to upgrade its traffic light system, so drivers see more green.

The facts are clear — when drivers think they may get caught speeding, they slow down — and we know that even five miles an hour can make a difference in saving a life,» said Senate Jeff Klein at the press conference.

The evidence is clear — when drivers know they might be caught, they slow down.

A new roadside radar system could fix that by keeping track of large animals and warning drivers when it would be wise to slow down.

Let's say a driver approaches a red light at 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and coasts to slow down, then the light turns green and he or she floors the accelerator.

A human driver approaching a blind corner must slow down and prepare for the unexpected, but an autonomous car connected to CarSpeak would be able to cruise through, provided with a continuous 3D view of the area created from information captured by other cars, or by a sensor fixed in place to help with the blind spot.

«The very act of seeing the pedestrian slows down in the driver's over-tired brain,» he explained.

But at an amber signal, which warns drivers to slow down, a horn sounds.

If a vehicle stops ahead, a warning can be issued to drivers behind to slow down, or vehicles can automatically take control and slowdown without the driver's intervention.

Beyond that range, a flare usually suffices to warn drivers to slow down.

He said that the information could even be communicated to drivers of non-autonomous vehicles to use at their discretion to alter their driving behavior, such as voluntarily slowing down or seeking out alternative routes.

«Where there is queueing, if drivers are not aware of the queue downstream, they don't have enough time to hit the brakes to slow down or stop, thus, increasing the likelihood of a crash.

«We found when a road worker and machinery were visible, drivers nominated lower speeds, suggesting that they were far more likely to slow down than if they saw no activity,» he said.

Drivers were significantly more likely to slow down and stop when caught in the dilemma zone.

«Don't cry wolf: Drivers fed up with slowing down at inactive roadwork sites.»

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

I don't know if the driver was tired, had sipped a few too many beverages with his truck stop dinner, was still learning the job or simply going too fast but he decided he should probably slow down too.

Yellow: As Michigan drivers know, yellow doesn't mean slow down.

Computer drivers follow the ideal line and do not slow down if you are in front of them.

From there, he launched a steady film career that slowed down considerably in the late»50s, after he began appearing on television but did not end until 1994, when Brinegar made his final screen appearance, as a stagecoach driver, in the 1994 film version of Maverick.

Whilst not exactly a return to the movies that made him famous (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull etc), it is an intelligent and tightly woven thriller that never once slows down.

Great Directors on TCM: Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese has been a leading American director since the 1970s, when he burst on the New Hollywood scene with gritty urban dramas like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver — and he's stayed on top pretty much ever since, and shows no signs of slowing down.

The poster project, which is sponsored by Co-op insurance, aims to inspire and engage primary school children about the need for drivers to slow down so children can walk and cycle to school safely.

After speaking with Driver for a few minutes, it becomes clear that she shows no signs of slowing down.