Sentences with phrase «steering wheel the car»

Also if I let go of the steering wheel the car still drives straight.

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To take a step back, UBI programs (also known as telematics and pay - as - you - go insurance) rely on a small device plugged into the OBDII (or OBD - 2) port located on the dash or under the steering wheels of cars manufactured after 1998.

By the way, if you're driving a late - model car, you're already piloting a computer on wheels that electronically controls braking, steering and other major systems.

At the moment, everything in a car from a design point of view is based on a 100 - year - old package — engine in the front, and a driver holding a steering wheel behind.

While its robot cars will be similar to Google's, one big difference — at least so far — is that the Chinese version will still have a steering wheel and pedals.

For context, Level 5 is the highest stage of autonomy when a car can drive itself in any scenario, making steering wheels and pedals unnecessary.

Now Google wants to take the next step by designing and building a fleet of 100 driver-less cars — albeit without steering wheels, gas peddles, brakes and mirrors.

This primarily makes the car harder to drive at low speeds and for parallel parking, but does not materially affect control at high speed, where only small steering wheel force is needed.

The Ganassi team worked with NTT Data to run hitoe signals directly through the car's telemetry system; that way bio-signals could be paired with the car's speed, braking, steering wheel input, load forces... so what Tony was doing matched could be paired with what the car was doing.

Autopilot, she wrote, can't actually drive the car, but it lets consumers keep their hands off the steering wheel for minutes at a time.

In your first moments of riding in a self - driving car, your every instinct is to lunge for the steering wheel.

The next time you take your car out for a spin, imagine how much more comfortable it would be if your steering wheel perfectly conformed to the shape of your hand.

The car itself has a hypothetical interior with a steering wheel, some upholstery and digital displays.

She sits back in her seat and watches as the car reverses itself into a spot along the curb, the steering wheel spinning all on its own.

Google's self - driving pod - cars don't even have a steering wheel or pedals.

But for Tesla to become primarily an energy company would be like General Motors to shift its emphasis to creating steering wheels for vehicles of all types rather than for management to think of it as a car manufacturer.

The $ 136,000 car was tricked out with just about every technological addition on the market today: a rear - view camera (including night vision), electric rear and side shades, satellite radio, active blind spot detection, a steering wheel that rumbles if you change lanes without signalling, a touch - knob - controlled heads - up - display with GPS and a high - end Bang & Olufson sound system complete with dashboard - mounted tweeter.

Take it further and put DrumPants - like sensors in a car steering wheel.

In June, Google (GOOG) introduced a self - driving car that it had designed itself, without pedals and steering wheels, but lots of sensors and software.

The cars, which are equipped with the same software used in Google's previous generation of self - driving Lexus vehicles, are designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals.

Now, Google (GOOG) has unleashed a self - driving car — no pedals, steering wheel, but lots of sensors and software — of its own design.

But it's been hamstrung by preliminary rules in California that prohibit the use of fully autonomous driverless cars that don't have a steering wheel or a brake pedal.

The company introduced a self - driving car with no pedals or steering wheel, but lots of sensors and software, in June 2015.

When the car is in autopilot mode, the steering wheel folds up and retracts into the dashboard.

Like Google's autonomous cars, Ford's cars won't come with a steering wheel, brake or gas pedal.

A Level 5 car wouldn't need a brake or steering wheel because a human driver isn't necessary.

«It seems crazy,» he says, «that people know more about the car they drive than about the body they put behind the steering wheel.»

The car's driver sits at a 45 - degree angle while she drives, an angle determined by NASA to be optimal for driving, and the steering wheel has an embedded dock for your smartphone.

Poll after poll has shown that while Americans like the idea of self - driving cars, they are less willing to cede control of the steering wheel to a computer program.

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation at the Automotive Hall of Fame on Friday allowing for the testing of self - driving cars without a steering wheel, brake pedal, or human in the front seat.

Almost everything is controlled with the car's single 15 - inch touchscreen, which accepts inputs from voice commands and the two control knobs on the steering wheel.

According to the Insurance Institute, the head of the crash test dummy in the Model S slammed into the steering wheel, which is why IIHS only gave the popular electric car an «acceptable» rating in the small overlap test.

This year, they had cut the roof off a small car, elevated the steering wheel, shifted it to the right so that it was placed near the middle of the vehicle, and replaced the seats with a couch.

As for whether the company will have steering wheels and pedals in the initial versions of its cars, Krafcik said that because of the regulatory limitations of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, cars have to have steering wheels right now.

For people living in rural areas, where wait times for driverless Uber or any kind of public transit are completely unreasonable, yet don't have money to burn an extra $ 10k on their car to make it autonomous, will continue to buy old - fashioned human - driven cars with gas pedals and steering wheels long into the future — and will not accept not being able to drive their cars into cities.

Through it, the occupants of the vehicle can leave the driving to the system, though the cars will still have steering wheels on the times when an occupant will choose to take control.

For now, a Uber employee stays behind the steering wheel to intercede if the car's self - driving system makes a mistake.

It added a button on the steering wheel for drivers to create an audio explanation when they took the car out of autonomous mode.

It also appeared that the driver's hands were not hovering above the steering wheel, which is what drivers are instructed to do so they can quickly retake control of the car.

The company is prepared to launch fully automated cars without any steering wheels next year.

We can feel or hear the score of peace but the rain is pouring and the cars are flying past and we are gripping the steering wheel just trying to get home.

So I guess I'll have to be content with driving a car that has the steering wheel on the wrong side.

Then I saw Lorena slumped behind the steering wheel of the car.

After they drove away, and we closed everything up again, I sat back down in my car in the dark and put my head on the steering wheel and prayed, «Thank you, Jesus, for helping us not miss this tonight.»

Whole30 Creamy Restaurant Style Balsamic Dressing I'm writing this post to all of you as I sit in my car, with my laptop up against the steering wheel and I'm dreaming about being in a restaurant with a glass of wine in one hand...

Mercedes Daimler has provided F1 «s safety cars since the 1996 season with the C36 AMG, but this year's model boasts a spectrum of advanced Motorsport technology and gadgets, including active rear - wheel steering, a nine - way adjustable traction control system, low - weight ceramic compound brakes, all powered by a 4.0 - litre V8 biturbo engine.

Apparently he couldn't remember how to remove the steering wheel, so he stayed sat in the car as he was craned off.

On Tuesday, his remarkable story continued with his first outing in a race car since the accident, driving a specially - adapted Fun Cup car, which featured steering wheel mounted hand controls.

Annoyed by a crash which he feels clearly wasn't his fault, Brezina gets out of his car (after replacing the steering wheel because obviously he doesn't want to be penalised) and begins to sprint and stumble his way towards the other car.

With a fewyanks on the steering wheel, Montoya steadied his car and kept it from smashinginto the wall.