Sentences with phrase «slowing the car as»

Frankly, we didn't notice anything exceptional about the cornering in comparison to, say, an Audi A7 or Fisker Karma; instead, the most evident characteristic is the aggressively calibrated energy recapture system, which chewed back at the road, rapidly slowing the car as soon as our right foot lifted.
Garcia bided his time and used a slower car as a pick to move into the lead with 22 minutes left.
Experts who saw video of the Uber crash pointed to apparent failures in Uber's sensor system, which failed to stop or slow the car as the victim, 49 - year - old Elaine Herzberg, crossed a street pushing a bicycle.

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The review by a person identified in court documents only as «Sarah K» gave Kimzey's company one star out of five, saying it was slow to respond to a car lockout and then overcharged.
As the U.S. suffered through a recession, economic downturn and slow recovery in the late - 2000s, it became tough for some car dealers to survive.
New car sales in Western Australia started the 2018 financial year in the slow lane, falling 8 per cent in July as national sales continued to rise.
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.
On one hand, the slow lane for self - driving cars isn't totally unexpected, as the Trump administration continues to chart its course in major transportation policy debates and decides which federal programs to keep or replace.
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.
After four years of strong sales increases — and limited discounts — as the economy improved, U.S. demand for new cars and trucks is expected to slow this year.
Although Uber had slammed the February suit brought by Waymo as «a baseless attempt to slow down a competitor,» the case has quickly put careers and autonomous car bragging rights in jeopardy.
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.
Cars passed what was now our house, slowing for a look, as did people on foot.
Drivers need to have razor - sharp concentration to get the best lap times out of the car, especially those at the wheel of prototypes as they weave their way through slower racing machines.
As Keselowski unexpectedly slowed, the field stacked up behind him with Casey Mears rear ending the No. 2 car.
With cars slowing down and facing the wrong way, numerous other drivers were unsurprisingly caught up in the incident as the F4 machines scattered.
It's tough to see from the camera angle, but as the pack slowed down it seems that Sho Onodera (in the white car) was unsighted and went clean over the top of the black car of Miki Koyama.
It's not going to suit our car as much as the twisty, slower corners of Monaco, but I'm excited to get back in the MCL32, catch up with the guys and girls in the team and get back out on track.»
For example, whenever Johnsonlaunches into a five - minute explanation of what he was feeling in the car as itentered a turn — including information such as throttle position, brake pressureand how the steering handled — Knaus will visualize in slow motion what's goingon inside the car as it rolls through the turn.
The Sebring 12 Hours at the start of the year delivered this huge shunt between Jan Magnussen's Corvette and Kevin Estre's Porsche, with the two cars making contact as they lapped a slower car and spinning hard into the wall.
At Talladega in 2003 the last few laps were completed without incident, but as the massive pack of cars started to slow down after taking the flag Bobby Labonte got turned around in the middle of the pack, triggering a multi-car pileup.
Things have been a bit hectic in the Mum's the Word house since Sausage went back to school; first, the girls were poorly (tonsilitis), then I was poorly (gall bladder) and then the car decided to go kaput, leaving us unable to make regular trips to the shops, so we were living on what we had in the cupboards and as a result, my slow cookers have been rather neglected!
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.
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.
In dense traffic, cell phone users were about 20 percent slower to respond to sudden hazards than other drivers, and they were about twice as likely to rear - end a braking car in front of them.
As a result, oxidative stress proceeds at a slower pace and the organism lives longer, just as a car will last longer in a dry climate that doesn't promote rusAs a result, oxidative stress proceeds at a slower pace and the organism lives longer, just as a car will last longer in a dry climate that doesn't promote rusas a car will last longer in a dry climate that doesn't promote rust.
Reducing the amount of fossil fuels (such as gasoline for cars and coal burned for electricity) that we use can help slow how quickly the ice is melting (by slowing the rise in average temperatures).
«Dealer contacts noted increased sales of larger vehicles such as trucks and SUVs, and slower sales for small and hybrid cars,» the bank said.
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.
As Robert Ernst explains: «Whereas a racing car will often fail after completing a hundred superfast laps because the engine has overheated, a tractor (representing a normal body cell) will continue to drive up and down the field for a lot longer, but also a lot slower
As for braking, the engineers felt it was mostly unnecessary — they had a less wasteful plan for slowing the car.
«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.»
«I'd describe this as a car crash in slow motion,» says Matthew Waite, director of the Drone Journalism Lab at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
Interestingly, the story states that passengers would comfortably be «flying» at 30 to 40 miles per hour; contrast that with the last line of the «Morse's Telegraph» story in the same issue, which described railroad cars as «slow and tedious.»
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.
Start slow and gradually progress over time to increase the draw in to 20 and 30 second holds intermittently throughout your day, whether sitting (car time) or standing as this will also assist in achieving better posture as well as a stronger TVA.
It slows you down like the brakes on your car, using neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine and GABA to literally lower heart rate, blood pressure, and help your heart and organs slow down.
It acts like the brakes in a car, to where it slows down and / or stops brain activity on an as - needed basis to help us function better.
Now think of your body as the sports car and processed foods like potato chips, fast food, and refined sugars as diesel — they make you feel heavy, slow, and they gum up all your organs.
The thickness of the snow was unbelievable and even driving slow you could feel the car losing control a little - anyway as we were driving back we witnessed an accident between two cars sliding down the hill and luckily never got involved ourselves but it does shake you up a little when you drive that same road every day and it's super notorious for accidents in all types of weather conditions.
The famous shoe designer Christian Louboutin once said, «is precisely the high heels make a woman have a healthy, high - heeled shoes because they slowed down so that the distinction between different as the car rolled at least cycling can enjoy the scenery along the way...»
Maybe it was the energy of New York that I found so exhilarating or just the thought of a new year, but in all of the stillness, as I sat there slowing drinking my coffee watching the cars go by, my mind was racing.
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.
by Walter Chaw There is a moment in the middle of Bulletproof Monk: Chow Yun - Fat leaps to the top of a car, brandishing two pistols, his overcoat flaring in slow - motion as he rains down bullets on the bad guys.
Here the brand is venturing deep into R territory, pretty much from the opening credits where the camera zips through one of those frozen - bullet, slow - motion car crashes as cheeky generics stand in for names.
The same core gameplay loop is still very fun to play, with some nice visual feedback as cars explode, your crashbreaker slowing down time for you to plan your next move and numbers all over the place ticking up towards your goal.
But while Creevy struggles with the basics of suspense — often indulging in the same hacky, buzz - killing slow motion shots as he did in Welcome To The Punch — his direction of the film's modestly conceived action sequences is serviceable: a relentless foot chase through the winding streets and picturesque houses of a medieval town; an escape from a Hagen - owned warehouse that's directed in part as a Children Of Men - style long take; and the centerpiece, a head - spinning, car - wrecking pursuit down the Autobahn.
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.
The rest of the film plays out like watching a car crash up close and in slow motion, as the characters swerve away from danger only to find themselves confronting it again.
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
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