Sentences with phrase «slow the vehicle in»

Powering up hills was a breeze and braking on the way back down slowed the vehicle in a predictable and confidence inspiring manner.

Combined with the 4MATIC all - wheel drive, which is a first for the E-Class Cabriolet series, it truly inspires confidence as you maneuver around tight turns and slower vehicles in most driving conditions.

By controlling the variable - geometry turbocharger and compression of the engine, the driver - selectable feature generates backpressure, slowing the vehicle in a steady and predictable manner without touching the brakes.

Available Forward Collision Alert system uses camera technology and / or available radar to alert you to detected slowing vehicles in your path.

Available Forward Collision Alert systems use camera technology and / or available radar to alert you to detected slowing vehicles in your path.

However, it could generate only sluggish acceleration above 40, requiring 10 seconds to hit 60 mph, the slowest vehicle in the compact crossover segment, according to Car and Driver.

ON THE ROAD The 2.4 - litre, four - cylinder Hyundai was the slowest vehicle in the 0 - 100 km / h test at 10.9 sec, and was also slightly off the pace in terms of fuel economy.

It's said: «Other systems use braking to achieve a similar effect — but waste energy and slow the vehicle in the process.»

Previously Active Cruise Control would maintain a constant speed while monitoring the traffic ahead, and reacted to a slowing vehicle in front by slowing the BMW.

My feet hover above the pedals, but the pre-production Nissan Rogue applies the brakes as I near a slower vehicle in the turn.

Options include Infiniti's Hard Drive Navigation with touch screen and 3D building images, All - Around View Monitor (first introduced on the Infiniti EX) which displays a virtual bird's - eye view of the vehicle and surroundings to aide in parking, and Intelligent Cruise Control, which provides the benefits of standard cruise control with the ability to add speed and distance intervals, as well as automatically slowing the vehicle in slowing traffic to help provide a safe distance.

And many of the features that default to on, such as collision avoidance, can not be truly disengaged, so that urban and highway driving can be cumbersome as the vehicle is constantly slowing down by cars coming in close, and when approaching a slower vehicle in preparation to pass.

Available Forward Collision Alert uses a camera to scan traffic for stopped or slowing vehicles in front of you and will sound an alert so you can take action if necessary.

Pappy didn't believe in passing slower vehicles in front of him.

While I accept there was a situation of peril created by the driver of the tractor trailer, the proximate cause of the collision between the defendant's vehicle and that of the plaintiff was the inattention of the defendant by travelling too close to the rear of the plaintiff's vehicle or, alternatively, the condition of the brakes on his vehicle which did not allow him to slow his vehicle in time to avoid hitting the plaintiff's vehicle.

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.

While hybrid electric and full electric vehicles have become more common in recent years, the aviation industry has been slow to embrace e-planes, partially because of the weight and cost of lithium - ion battery packs.

March was slow month for new vehicle sales in Western Australia, adding to a slow quarter for the majority of the top industry players, with Nissan being one of the few exceptions.

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.

Tesla's biggest challenge, going forward, is to avoid being such a disruptive upstart in a 100 - year - old business that it gets clobbered by the big, slow carmakers that just happen to be able to flip a switch and build hundreds of thousands of Tesla - like vehicles much faster than Tesla can build actual its cars.

The NTSB is also investigating this month's Uber accident in Tempe, Arizona, in which a Volvo XC90 equipped with the ride - hailing giant's self - driving system failed to slow the vehicle as a 49 - year - old woman crossed the street pushing a bicycle.

Not only is the Model S able to track the angle in which neighboring vehicles are traveling, it's also able to simultaneously track individual actions of five cars — up to six cars in slow moving traffic conditions — as they maneuver between lanes.

If you want to pass the very slow moving vehicle in front you would have to go into the oncoming traffic lane to pass the vehicle.

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.

Mr. Cuomo has yet to release a detailed congestion - pricing plan, but most schemes being discussed call for tolling vehicles to enter crowded parts of Manhattan, and doing so in a way that that does not slow the flow of traffic.

«I was at Gbogan and I observed that a vehicle was trailing me; so, I asked the person driving the vehicle in which I was to slow down.

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.

The first mainstream plug - in hybrids and fully electric vehicles (EVs) are just now hitting the market, and while initial sales have been slow, the Department of Energy predicts there will be 1.2 million of them on the road by 2015.

Participants who played a car - themed game were no quicker at categorising vehicle images, and indeed in some cases their reaction time was significantly slower.»

Building cities in a way that slows vehicle demand while delivering high accessibility could prove to be a low - cost option for curbing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a solution to pressing problems for policymakers like local air pollution and poor public health.

As it passes through the outer atmosphere, friction will slow the vehicle to below the speed of sound in less than two minutes.

People can slow their spread by throwing bait in the trash and washing mud off vehicles and boots before traveling into the woods.

Animators also employed slow - motion photography in Transformers to control the speed and motion of some of the characters» transformations from vehicles to robots (or vice versa).

«We could also account for slower traffic in our calculations, such as traffic jams or other delays, but we assume that such slowdowns are not a factor, since ambulances can use the shoulder, and traffic will usually clear a path for EMS vehicles,» says Widener.

Argonne researchers participated in a study to characterize the specific economic, logistical and chemical problems slowing the development of efficient electric vehicle batteries.

Valence has already modified a Prius... Marc Kohler, business development manager for Valence's vehicle systems program, says the major automakers appear to be acting disinterested, but it's not the full picture... «Publicly they have to say one thing, but R&D guys are actively researching it,» says Kohler, pointing out that high oil prices, national security issues, the fact that the technology is available, and the slow progress of fuel - cell cars has created an ideal environment for pursuing plug - in hybrids.

I'd like to point out that the missiles in this game, again in what seems to be an attempt to balance the game out, go incredibly slow, and most vehicles can actually outrun your shot even if it is locked onto them.

In virtually every promo for Marvel's Black Panther, there's been a slow - motion shot of the Chadwick Boseman's titular hero avoiding a car explosion by back - flipping onto another vehicle.

In one emblematic scene, he happens upon a multiple - car pileup and strides down the line of automobiles as the slow - motion, blurred sound, and the bright red watermelon guts strewn over the cars (one of the vehicles was carrying a load of melons) give the whole thing a surrealistic vibe.

This game is chock full of gameplay and thematic elements that have been in the slow cooker since the very first Far Cry: The ability to mark targets from afar, vehicle - related action scenes, alternate paths, and of course, that ever - present jungle.

It inexplicably appeared in the racing - oriented video game Gran Turismo 3, gaining notoriety as one of the few vehicles in the title slower than a 1950s Volkswagen Beetle.)

In the event of an emergency, the ambulance may not be able to alert other vehicles of its presence, slowing its trip to the hospital and increasing the risk of a crash.

In the case of BMW, those legacies include a large workforce trained to complete tasks that may soon become obsolete, an assembly network designed to build conventional vehicles with internal combustion engines, a hungry dealer network that needs to be fed, and an EV line - up comprised only of the slow - selling i3.

I am used to a V - 6 AWD vehicle, so it has taken some time getting used to the slower acceleration in normal or ECO mode.

In some vehicles, especially high - performance Audis, it's nice to have the lighter response in the steering wheel during slow maneuvers, like in parking lots, with a firming up when you increase speeIn some vehicles, especially high - performance Audis, it's nice to have the lighter response in the steering wheel during slow maneuvers, like in parking lots, with a firming up when you increase speein the steering wheel during slow maneuvers, like in parking lots, with a firming up when you increase speein parking lots, with a firming up when you increase speed.

Overall vehicle deliveries have stalled in the past two years, slowing to 2.5 % growth in 2011 and predicted to reach 5 % -5.8 % in 2012, according to the China Association of Automotive Manufacturers (CAAM).

With just 3,413 sales in 2014, the RLX is Acura's slowest - selling vehicle.

An officer noticed a long line of vehicles in congested traffic behind a slow - moving vehicle, and following investigation, pulled the offending Google car over to a nearby lot.

It also has an old - school slow ratio requiring many turns lock - to - lock, all of which strikes us as a good thing in a large vehicle that can tow nearly twice its weight (9,200 pounds for this standard - wheelbase model).

Ford +24 % The move toward more fuel - efficient vehicles didn't slow F - series sales (+11 %), but V - 6 engines accounted for half the volume, up from 40 % in March (three - fourths of V - 6s were the Ecoboost turbo).