Sentences with phrase «slow speeds the car»

At slow speeds the car almost feels as if it has no power steering.

It is a bit like slowing a speeding car by changing to smaller tires.

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The autosteer function keeps the car in its lane, reads road signs, drives as much over the speed limit as you ask, and slows down or stops if there is a slower vehicle or obstruction ahead.

Imagine your car slowing down by gently and safely bumping another car that is trying to speed up.

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.

Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.

The qualifying order will be set according to the first practice speeds, with the slowest cars going first and the fastest cars going at the end of the session.

Sebastian Vettel got very cheeky in China at the pit lane entry, passing two slower cars on the run to the speed limiter line.

Following a disastrous weekend in Canada which ended with him visiting fans in the grandstands following yet another breakdown, Alonso said that his car was so slow on the straights that the speed difference between him and the other cars was dangerous.

A few people got past but at least 10 cars ended up becoming part of a decent (but slightly slower speed) replica of the GT3 crash from Macau.

In testing he said that the car was so slow that «every corner is flat out», and in Canada he claimed that the difference to other cars in straight line speed was dangerous.

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.

I love that time slows down and I notice things (rabbits, a fox, prairie dogs, flowers, birds) that I wouldn't see if I were speeding by in a car.

• You can talk about the car going fast and slow and introduce the concept of speed whilst spotting tractors and diggers and buses and seeing if they are going fast or slow.

It is as though an unconscious part of the mind was able to drive the car, avoid danger, speed up and slow down as necessary, while the conscious mind went off on a brief vacation thinking about something else.

Those who find themselves stuck in toll booth - induced traffic on the Henry Hudson Bridge can look forward to a speedier commute: The M.T.A. is formulating a plan to speed up traffic and reduce car emissions by creating more efficient E-ZPass tolls (no more slowing to a halt, then passing).

As the car slows down, the transmission automatically downshifts into lower gears, but a sudden command to increase speed reverses that process and the transmission has to find the proper gear for quick acceleration.

And now the technology is to the point where you have devices — I've driven in them; they're amazing — and these [have] cruise control which have radar in the front, which allows you stay a certain distance behind the car in front of you, it will speed up and slow down.

As I passed the slower cars and tried to beat the traffic lights, it struck me: I was trying to outrun a radio beam, heading Earthward at the speed of light.

The group knew that no matter how efficiently the powertrain brought the car up to speed, precious energy would go up in brake - pad smoke every time the car was slowed.

«We believe that kinesin - 5 has the ability to coordinate the speed of microtubules and keep them from going too fast or too slow,» says Forth, likening the protein to a gear box in a car.

With it, Chrysler hopes to demonstrate that cars can be efficient and clean without being slow or boring: it is aiming for a top speed of 320 kilometres per hour.

Think about like the engine of a car that in a safe haven would be in a nice, slow, idle, not stressed at all versus in your garage a car where there's somebody who has their foot all the way down on the gas pedal and so that engine is just accelerated at much higher speed than it ought to be for a car that's parked in a garage.

It could be the friction (with the road and air) that slows down the speed of a coasting car.

Later, rather than trying to park your car in the garage at full - speed when it's time for bed, you've given yourself an opportunity to slow down and restart at least once that day.

The highlight of the film by far is an elaborate car chase sequence that begins on the hilly streets of Frisco, progresses at slow speed through a Chinatown parade, and ends at the harbor.

«Therefore I'm delighted to see fewer cars around participating schools, slower speeds in nearby streets and more children walking in every day, contributing to a more welcoming environment for all.

It felt perfectly stable at this sort of speed too, although the brakes are not the most encouraging part of the car (they're effective enough, but need a good shove deep into the pedal travel) so it felt wise to leave plenty of margin for slowing.

In the past your goal was to bring the car home and to slow down the speeds, not use the curbs.

Depending on trim, you can get blind spot monitoring with rear cross traffic alert, an electric parking brake, an around view camera system, and a sonar system that detects objects approaching from the front and behind in low speed situations and works with a rear cross traffic braking system to alert the driver and can slow the car if necessary.

When at slow speeds, the car can jump a bit, as though it is about to stall.

Hybrid mode would offer max performance, launching the Asterion from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds and onto a top speed of 199 mph, and cross-drilled and vented carbon - ceramic disc brakes would slow the car.

It's staggering then to think that a Mountune mapped Ford Fiesta ST — a car that's just a tenth slower to 60mph and just 15mph off the M5's top speed — sells for # 18,144 today, just 25 per cent of the M5's original list price.

In more powerful cars, everything is heavier so responses are slower until very, very high speeds.

With less mass in the wheel to be spun up to speed and then dragged back down, there's less energy going to waste every time the car speeds up or slows down, which can mean miles (or tens of miles) more to a charge or a tank.

The car is fractionally slower to 60 mph than the S63 AMG, however, and it registers a time of 4.0 seconds to 60 mph on the way to its top speed of 186 mph.

With the speeds here too slow for the turbos to build up steam and the road shoulder narrow to nonexistent, the GT - R feels like the big and heavy car it is.

We rounded out our year with the Alfa twins by taking the Spider for high - speed runs up the winding Angeles Crest Highway and slow rolls alongside the Pacific Ocean, certain the car deserved every ounce of praise we initially gave it.

Alfa claims an impressive stopping distance of just 118 feet from 100 km / hr (62 mph), and they were just stellar on the track, repeatedly slowing the car down from much higher speeds more quickly than we anticipated.

Consider: Once, while cruising in fourth gear in this M2, we saw a chance to pass slower traffic on the two - lane PCH and opted not to downshift — the car got from just under 60 mph to triple - digit speeds so quickly we worried about those «speed limits enforced by radar» signs, but the M2 completed the pass in about half the expected distance.

The electrical motors are also used to provide regenerative braking when the car slows down, with charge fed back to the batteries - at higher speeds retardation of up to 0.25 G is handled entirely electrically.

The electric Smart's advantage is its single - speed transmission, which means that it doesn't suffer from the slow and jerky shifts of the standard car's automated - manual gearbox.

Other drivers would speed toward the 4C, slow down just behind the car's rear quarter panels, and camp out in neighboring lanes as they snapped iPhone pictures, which sucked since the 4C's absolutely enormous rear blind spots would render even full - size SUVs invisible.

The car uses the same 207bhp, 207 lb ft 2 - litre turbo unit as the other mk6 Golf GTIs, helping it to reach 62mph in 7.3 seconds — 0.4 sec slower than the lighter hatch — and continue onto a top speed of 147mph (146mph in a DSG - equipped car).

It was a bit of a bugger at slow speed because there was a fair amount of Steering resistance and of course the steering wheel itself is a fair bit smaller than on a Car designed with standard steering.

Higher speeds you feel it in the Model S so you back off and the re-gen slows you down quickly ready for the next blast... M5, 3 seconds of Raw fun, stupids speeds arrive and then 20 seconds of coasting and nail biting before you slow down back to legal speeds... 3 seconds of fun and 20 seconds of fear... too quick and without re-gen you are just standing on those very expensive disks and pads... Honestly in todays traffic Model S far better and if you must, buy a lotus for the weekend B road blast... Also with all the sound insulation in the M5 you can't hear the engine until silly speeds... so again Model S.... My friend said don't you miss the V8 noise and my other friend sat in the car said its a bit like missing the clip clop of your horse at the advent of the Model T...

i driven the i8 and a 991C4s at the same streets in the same week in july 2015 here in germany, the i8 engine was surprisingly ok but the cornering speeds were laughabel, the car understeered a lot, it had the wider tyres but the breaking was also weak (because of the tyres) the automatic (no doubleclutch, cheap aisin) was slow, the car was much more expencive than the carrera -LRB-!)

At our pathetically slow highway speeds, we need everything we can get to make driving fun — crazy steering feel, an engaging manual transmission, and a car that's perhaps a little bit flawed.

Is it on these cars possible to switch from «R» to «D» or vice versa at slow speeds?

When fully committed to a fast corner outright grip is huge, but what's really special is that through medium and slow speed corners there's still plenty of grip and stability to lean on, yet you can slide the car if you wish, using the Porsche Torque Vectoring and mechanical limited - slip differential to enjoyable effect.