Sentences with phrase «taking his hands off the wheel at»

It can park itself automatically via a remote - control app, allow the driver to briefly take hands off the wheel at speeds up to 130 mph, adapt to what the vehicle in front is doing, steer itself through obstacles like a narrow construction lane at speeds up to 80 mph, and overtake traffic automatically.

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On a stretch of Highway 101, east of downtown San Francisco, Vogt had clicked a button between the front seats, turned a dial to adjust the speed, taken his hands off the wheel, moved his feet back from the gas pedal and brake — and then turned to look me straight in the face, while, at 60 miles per hour, the scenery ticked by.

Sure, Nico Hulkenberg wasn't pushing hard in Q2 when he took his hands off the wheel but he was still going 267kph — or 166mph (not 200mph as the video title suggests)-- at the time.

There was loads of road ahead of him and no traffic, so there wasn't much risk, but taking both hands off the wheel of an F1 car at any time is still ballsy.

Even on the vast back straight at the Shanghai International Circuit, it's still pretty risky to take both hands off the wheel while driving a Formula 1 car.

The most alarming thing about taking your hands off the steering wheel when hurtling along the road at 90 kilometres an hour is just how quickly you get used it.

Lights and heater controls are still fluty to the touch, their position indicated by a row of LEDs, and although they seem fiddly at first, it soon becomes intuitive - not least because most of them can be twiddled with the fingertips without taking your hands off the wheel.

At 1.8 turns lock - to - lock, it is sufficiently quick to let you tear through hairpins without taking a hand off the wheel.

And yet, I briefly took my hands off the steering wheel at 80 mph on a scenic Austrian freeway and instructed the new Mercedes - Benz E-Class to pass a fifth - generation Volkswagen Golf.

Check - in at home without taking your hands off the wheel with Bluetooth ® phone and audio capbility2.

The C - Class can be had with stop - and - go adaptive cruise control, collision avoidance and prevention, lane keep assistance, self - driving for 10 - 15 seconds at a time (what lane keep assist effectively does when you take your hands off the wheel), and self - parking.

Even better, at those painfully slow traffic speeds, the car's lane - keeping assist basically becomes self - steering, so I could even take my hands off the wheel.

I take my hands off the wheel as I gain confidence in the system's capability, but a stern warning from the dash quickly tells me not to — we're not at hands - free driving yet.

Multi-function buttons featured as standard help the driver concentrate on the essential, operating the telephone or audio system at the touch of a finger, without having to take his hand off the steering wheel.

When I became caught in a bit of traffic crawling along at 5 mph, I was able to take my hands off the wheel completely and experience the closest thing to autonomous driving currently in production.

At speed down the freeway, Steering Assist wasn't robust enough to keep the car in its lane without my help, and the car gave me a warning when I took my hands off the wheel.

Texting does more than just divert your eyes from the road, it also takes your hands off the wheel and distracts your mind from the very important task at hand: driving.

Your average salesman or contractor will be driving on a Highway when, without taking his hands off the steering wheel, will say, «Call Jane at home.»

You can dictate a reply or choose a prewritten one like «I'm driving right now» without ever taking your hands off the steering wheel, and the new combo app will also read your inbox mail aloud to keep those curious eyes peeled on the road at all times.