Sentences with phrase «slow the car if»

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.

Adaptive cruise control enables collision warning with brake support to help slow the car if the potential of a crash is detected.

Like normal cruise control, it'll maintain a preset speed, but it can also slow the car if a vehicle moves into the lane in front of you, before returning to the preset speed when the road is clear again.

Intelligent cruise control automatically slows the car if it's too close to the vehicle ahead.

Not exact matches

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.

For example, one company said it could disable the vulnerable features; another said that it could slow down and stop the hacked car if it was in motion and a third said similarly that it would remotely place the car in a «fail - safe mode.»

In cruise control mode, the car will now anticipate exits by slowing down if the turn signal is activated.

Nissan said if I had kept my hands off the wheel for roughly 30 seconds, the car would have gradually slowed to a stop.

The company's automotive OEM segment has consistently generated growth in excess of industry growth — the segment's organic revenue growth was 9 % in the quarter compared to 6 % for global car build growth — so if China's automotive production growth slows then Illinois Tool Work's automotive OEM growth rate is likely to slow significantly too.

Next you head into the supermarket (remembering that you had to actually dress up, do your hair, fix makeup etc. to do this) and wander the aisles wasting time looking at ingredient lists and trying to remember if the gums, preservatives and additives have dairy / eggs in them... taking the rolls to the counter, working out whether or not you want to go through the self checkout or keep a checkout operator employed for a few more years... pay... get back in the car... find somewhere to buy bottled water for the dogs... drive 50 km home... unpack dogs and buns and suddenly getting up, stretching... wearing whatever the heck you like with your hair in the air, no makeup, dogs within a hard stares range in case they feel like eating the furniture while you are working and that slow measuring out, baking etc. doesn't seem so time consuming any more.

Sure, all the failures McLaren are suffering are pretty embarrassing, but with only the two cars out there (if they're lucky) to gather data on progress is going to be a bit slower than is ideal.

Even if the MP4 - 25 was probably the slowest car of the three, it wasn't by much, and a good drive by either Hamilton or Button on the day would be enough to overcome any small deficit.

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.

So if you have these, kind of, cruise control — like vehicles or if you have vehicle - to - vehicle communication, so that the car in the back and the car in the front knows when the car in front is slowing down or stopping, you could run vehicles closer together.

If you're driving in the slow lane, you will only rarely pass another car, but you'll see cars streaming by in the passing lane.

If there are lots of cars, that means on average there will be more drivers and more driver time spent in the slow - moving crammed lanes than in the fast - moving lanes.»

«He moved as if in slow - motion and was very uncertain about how far away a coffee cup was on a table or how quickly a car was approaching.»

If that's too ambitious, she suggests either an orbiter or slow flyby probe, so long as the spacecraft goes slow enough not to smush potential microorganisms like bugs on a car windshield.

Now how do you think you're supposed to eat if you're in the dining car of a train that slows down, stops and starts moving backwards?

If Company Man were a wreck on the interstate, it would involve multiple cars and at least one jackknifed tanker truck, and traffic would be backed up for miles as passing motorists slow to gawk.

With all the excitement for fast cars, flying super heroes, dinosaurs and international spies each summer, some of us who enjoy our slow burn stories from the 19th century have to consider ourselves lucky if we get one western picture (from a big studio) in a year.

The over-the-top action is pretty good, if oddly directed; car chases and gunfights will vacillate between conventionally filmed excitement and kooky close - ups and slow - motion shots of Helen Mirren firing two guns out of the windows of a spinning car.

As L. Gordon Crovitz recently lamented in the Wall Street Journal: «If fast - moving technology hadn't collided with slow - moving regulators, this might have been the last summer you'd have to drive your own car.»

The pedal needs a thorough push to bring a response, making you feel as if you're trying to slow a full - size SUV rather than a small economy car.

If you just downshift (with rev matching), the car slows down at its own rate.

If sales are slow, BMW can still offer plug - in hybrid technology to all crossovers and cars from the 2 - series up.

If safety is a primary concern, it's all great stuff to have except for one glaring flaw: the adaptive cruise control cuts out once you slow to 15 mph, leaving you at the mercy of the laws of physics, which will send you slowly coasting into the car in front unless you're paying close attention.

If the car is like a bobblehead doll after hitting bumps, pitches and rolls in slow corners or is noticeably unable to quietly absorb all but the slightest imperfections, then it's time.»

It also serves as a reminder that slow - in, fast - out isn't the most drift - car stylish and fun, but is the quickest and most reliable way to drive such conditions if you want to avoid spinning out.

Sceptics say a] Peugeot should be careful with the pit - release lollipop, and b] if you slow down, a damaged tyre won't take half the car with it.

If I hadn't reacted instinctually, I'd have sacrificed the hare — especially in most any other car, where slower steering and more understeer would have exaggerated the quick moves.

Of course it can be made to understeer if you don't listen to the howling tyres (it comes as standard with Hankooks, which are brilliant in the wet but lack response and mid corner grip in the dry), but if you turn the car in slightly slower and then commit to the throttle you feel the sport diff sending power to the outside rear tyre.

If your car is slow turning over, but starts, that is often the best warning that you might have a charging system issue.

The car is almost stalling when you are slowing down I restart the engine and it starts again straightaway first time The car looses all power for a couple of minutes if that.

Plus, try that «slow down by downshifting» trick in the rain and watch helplessly as your car swaps ends right into a wall because there's no such thing as «anti-lock clutching», and if you don't have full - time 4 - wheel drive you're only slowing down with 2 wheels.

If we push the car and pop the clitch it starts but shuts off when slowing down or stopping.

If I change to 2nd gear at about 2000 rpm when in 1st gear I still go slow, because the car isn't moving fast enough so that I can take full advantage of being in 2nd.

I'm all for cars that move about underneath you, but the GT86 can feel nervous in quicker corners even if you're not pushing particularly hard, as if the rear tyres are planning on breaking free, while in slower ones the front end can wash wide surprisingly early.

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...

Of course it can be made to understeer, but if you turn the car in slightly slower and then commit to the throttle you feel the sport diff sending power to the outside rear tyre.

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.

If raw power is what you want, the M35h certainly puts down plenty to the rear wheels, thus obliterating any notions you might have that hybrid cars are slow and engineered solely for fuel economy.

If the history of the De Tomaso Pantera seems implausible, that's because it was: The car was built in Italy by an Argentinian, designed in Italy by an American, and sold by Lincoln - Mercury dealers in the U.S.. By 1974 and the introduction of the GTS, sales had slowed though hundreds of cars continued to be produced into the»90s.

And if you're lucky enough to have bought one recently, you'll be aware that it depreciates slower than just about any other car.

When activated, if the car in front of you speeds up or slows down, the sensors can detect the change and your car follows suit.18

A vehicle equipped with stability control is constantly checking to see if there's grip, and when it detects a loss of grip, or that the car's trajectory is not in line with the steering angle (suggesting it's going too fast in a corner), it can apply certain brakes or even cut engine power to slow the vehicle and bring it back on its intended course.

Cruise control has become a handy way to drive on the highway, but it doesn't always work out if other cars are going too slow.

If they slow, the car slows.

However, other mechanical systems that are monitored can also contribute to the problem If the car is slow to accelerate and seems to stumble when you drive, that's more indicative of a dirty mass air flow sensor or clogged fuel injectors.