Sentences with phrase «technology than any vehicle»

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While the technology for fully - autonomous vehicles is still being perfected, it is now considered much more feasible than it once was.

Besides Uber, which is also making inroads with the technology, Amazon more than a year ago launched an in - house think tank to leverage autonomous vehicles for faster delivery.

The latest vehicle for China's aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and US aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.

«California has more manufacturers testing autonomous vehicles than any other state and today's rules continue our leadership with this emerging technology,» California Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly said in a statement.

Thanks to cheap sensors, powerful machine - learning technology, and a kick in the butt from the likes of Google googl and Tesla Motors tsla, driverless vehicles are becoming a sooner - than - you - think reality.

While proponents of autonomous vehicles believe they will be much safer than those driven by humans, they'll have to prove that Monday's accident and subsequent ones are not the result of fundamental flaws in self - driving technology.

Center said hydrogen fuel cells are the «ultimate technology for the long term» because the cars boast faster re-fill times, perform better in colder weather, and offer longer ranges than electric vehicles.

The luxury - car company Mercedes - Benz and the automated - vehicle technology company Peloton are looking to bring driverless cargo trucks to the road sooner rather than later.

The technology is present in more than 70,000 Tesla vehicles around the world.

As to other storage technologies, I don't see anything that can be matured for volume vehicle fielding in less than a decade or so.

But by 2015, the Google car project had come a long way: Google's vehicles had logged more than one million autonomous miles; car companies including Toyota Motor Corp. and Tesla Inc. announced their own plans to develop autonomous systems; and analysts predicted the technology would transform the auto industry.

On the road to developing autonomous technologies, perhaps nothing is more important than the vehicle being able to see the world around it.

The sum WM said it's raised is a show of confidence in a startup competing with more than 200 Chinese electric - vehicle companies, some backed by the likes of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s Jack Ma, Foxconn Technology Group's Terry Gou and Tencent Holdings Ltd.'s Ma Huateng.

With plans to begin testing its autonomous technology in 30 Ford Fusions this year, the company hopes to gather enough data to develop level 4 vehicles that are able to drive better than humans.

He is a prominent figure in the world of self - driving vehicles, having worked on the technology for more than a decade and achieving some degree of renown as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004, when he designed a self - driving motorcycle that was entered in the Pentagon's first contest for autonomous vehicles.

By combining Uber's self - driving technology with Volvo's state - of - the art vehicles and safety technology, we'll get to the future faster than going it alone.

The black - tie event raised more than $ 2.8 million for 18 local nonprofits and offered attendees a first look at nearly 1,000 new vehicles, technologies...

In November 2011, Smith Electric Vehicles (Smith), a leader in zero - emission, all - electric commercial vehicles, announced that it would invest $ 8 million toward the establishment of a clean technology manufacturing facility in the South Bronx, New York, which will create more than 100 new jobs.

Rather than rely on V2V communications, Google's novel technology uses light radar and mapping software to guide the vehicle as a completely independent unit.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are vying with next - generation hybrid car technology (which can be plugged in to recharge its battery rather than relying on the gasoline engine) to be the electric car of the future.

«If you have a cellular phone in your vehicle, you have a 34 per cent greater risk of having an accident than those who do not have a car phone in their vehicle,» says John Violanti, professor of criminal justice at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.

Facial recognition software is becoming common in motor vehicle registries, too, as more than three dozen states use the technology to look for fake driver's licenses and identify people during investigations.

Moreover, if autonomous vehicles actually turned out to be safer than regular cars, unease over the dilemmas of regulation «may paradoxically increase casualties by postponing the adoption of a safer technology.»

The complete system, called Metro, will be an integrated network of underground and surface railways, shuttle buses and an improved freeway (motorway) system with new routes, high - technology aids to improve traffic flow, some toll roads, and «car pool» lanes reserved for vehicles carrying more than one person.

A practical hydrogen tank should power a vehicle for 300 miles and take less than 5 minutes to fill; current technology does not come close.

Though educators are ever cognizant of the fact that technology alone is not the panacea that will solve the literacy struggles of students, a thoughtful integration of literacy instruction with new technologies such as wikis can serve as the vehicle to transport both teachers and their students of this Web 2.0 generation on their learning journeys in ways that are broader and more meaningful than any individual learner could travel alone.

While we'd like to have seen such technology in a more dynamic vehicle than yet another SUV, the H - Tron Quattro is similarly brisk to the VW concept revealed earlier today.

The technology for autonomous driving is already here The Mercedes - Benz F 015 is actually more like a rolling proof of concept than a research vehicle for autonomous driving, and it rumbles around like a science experiment instead of a car.

Instead, manufacturers like McLaren, with its staggeringly capable P1, have embraced hybrid technology to create vehicles capable of far more than we ever could have imagined.

It shouldn't take a Wall Street analyst to figure out that an automaker spending part of its hefty profits from pickup trucks and SUVs to develop battery electric vehicles with range and recharge times that will attract mainstream buyers has a much better future than a small upstart automaker with enviable advanced technology, but no way to pay for its development other than by raising more capital.

You have no more idea of the potential of autonomous technology than the man in the hansom - cab had when his vehicle's progress was blocked by a broken - down, steaming heap of pig - iron.

In addition, more than 90 percent of the participants believed that a number of specific features of the connected vehicle technology would improve driving in the real world, including features alerting drivers about cars approaching an intersection, warning of possible forward collisions, and notifying drivers of cars changing lanes or moving into the driver's blind spot.

According to the report, level - four autonomous technology will allow the vehicle to drive itself in situations other than just the highway, which likely means more capability in urban situations.

The authors argue that vehicle fuel economy may be improved through three primary methods: reducing vehicle weight and size; increased market share of alternative powertrains that show more efficiency than conventional gasoline engines; and, rather than continuing the historical trend of emphasis on vehicles that are heavier, larger, and more powerful, ensuring that improvements in vehicle technology's efficiency gains are directed toward increasing fuel economy.

Toyota plans to offer more than 10 purely electric vehicle models in its lineup by the early 2020s, marking the Japanese automaker's commitment to that growing technology sector.

Through state - of - the - art technologies, Ford Service Technicians are able to fully reprogram the PCM memory by electronically «talking» to a single connector on the vehicle, allowing the module to receive upgrades rather than requiring replacement

The project is one of the results of more than a decade of work in automated vehicle technology on the part of Ford.

In today's Honda Accord vehicles, you will have more technology options to choose from than ever before.

Lucky for parents and licensed children, the 2012 Town & Country model makes doing just that easier than ever with safety and technology features numbering more than 40 as well as classic vehicle convenience features like Stow»n Go seating and a Stow»n Place roof rack.

Parking assist systems are spreading faster in the fleet than front crash prevention and other crash avoidance features, indicates a new report from HLDI examining how many vehicles are equipped with various driver assistance technologies.

The odds of a vehicle being in a backover crash reported to police were 41 percent lower than the odds for vehicles that didn't have these technologies standard.

This year's results highlighted the importance of driver - assist technologies to consumers, as vehicles with safety features such as blind spot monitoring and collision mitigation performed notably better in the study than vehicles that did not have them.

«Nissan continues to democratize technology, bringing our most advanced systems to our highest volume models, rather than reserving them for our most expensive vehicles,» said Michael Bunce, vice president, Product Planning, Nissan North America, Inc. «Customers are delighted when they realize they can afford technology usually reserved for high - end, expensive luxury vehicles.

By 2013, more than 90 % of Ford's North American vehicle lineup will offer EcoBoost technology.

The employment of a straight six - cylinder petrol power plant featuring M Performance Twin Power Turbo technology with a power output of more than 300 hp creates the ideal prerequisites for maximum dynamics in the premium compact segment and, in conjunction with rear - wheel drive concept still unique in this vehicle class, ensures unsurpassed driving pleasure so typical of a BMW.

So Toyota upgraded the Prius inside and out to deliver the complete package - emotional styling, smarter technology and impressive MPG, in a vehicle that's more fun to drive than ever.

Throughout the years, the vehicle has been used to test the merits of such systems as anti-lock brakes, double - wishbone suspension, variable valve timing and four - wheel steering before Honda passed the technology on to other members of the family.As such, Prelude was never meant to be a volume car, which is obvious when one considers that its history has been marked by bland styling, cramped cabin room, less than sizzling performance and handling more characteristic of a Cadillac Fleetwood than a sports coupe.

The UK government - backed Technology Strategy Board (TSB) will invest more than # 12 million (US$ 19.4 million) in 22 studies and projects to develop new technology that will speed up the reduction of CO2 emissions from roadTechnology Strategy Board (TSB) will invest more than # 12 million (US$ 19.4 million) in 22 studies and projects to develop new technology that will speed up the reduction of CO2 emissions from roadtechnology that will speed up the reduction of CO2 emissions from road vehicles.

«So far, forward collision technology is reducing claims, particularly for damage to other vehicles, and adaptive headlights are having an even bigger impact than we had anticipated.»