Sentences with phrase «test drivers out»

Industry insiders, or anyone tracking the company's recent moves, likely have predicted the company would pull human test drivers out of its vehicles before the end of 2017.

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That decision was certainly the right one for me and my opportunities in business at the time and, looking back now, I would have to say it worked out pretty well for us and also the driver that wound up getting that rookie test.

Papathanasiou pointed out that, if an officer asked to run such a test during a traffic stop, the driver could hold on to his or her phone while it was plugged in to the textalyzer - equipped device.

But we are just taking a test drive on this January night, and all the drivers shuttling passengers to the Uber party this evening are being paid hourly by Uber to try out the app.

Waymo, formerly the self - driving car project of Google, said that in tests on roads in California last year, its cars went an average of nearly 5,600 miles before the driver had to take control from the computer to steer out of trouble.

Well, as it turned out all my fears, which the night before the test resulted in me tossing and turning prior to sleep and having visions and thoughts of never, ever getting a driver's license, were for naught because old Bob though limited to one eye, passed the test with pretty much the same score he received in 1963.

His signature at the Swiss outfit makes sense on several fronts - as a Ferrari junior driver who's had some impressive testing outings in F1 machinery last year, Leclerc's inclusion in the Alfa revolution at Sauber aligns with Ferrari's aim of having a place in F1 for it to develop young drivers.

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Another big change since Massa first started out is the amount of testing available to new drivers, which is now minimal.

Charles Leclerc — who is a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy, and tested for Ferrari last year (alongside four FP1 outings with Haas)- drives on day one.

F2 driver Sean Gelael drove for Toro Rosso at the Bahrain test and gets his second outing in the STR12.

After a full engine change, test driver Oliver Turvey then got back out to up his tally to 17, still way off the other drivers.

The German driver was forced out of the first pre-season F1 test following his Race of Champions shunt in January, in which he injured his back.

As it turned out, after a month's worth of promotion, 35 - plus applicants and a test day between four finalists, it was a 14 - year - old who emerged as the most qualified candidate for the driver scholarship.

The Polish driver was set to drive for LMP1 privateer ByKolles in the FIA World Endurance Championship this year but pulled out after the pre-season Monza test.

He'll apparently join Renault F1 test driver Sergey Sirotkin in testing it out.

Nico Hulkenberg has come out against the driver head protection system dubbed Halo which Ferrari ran in testing today.

If inflammation turns out to be a key driver of OIH, it might also point the way to a better test for the effect, says Lesley Colvin, a pain researcher at the University of Edinburgh.

Additionally, further molecular testing may be carried out, as other actionable oncogenic drivers may be identified.

But then it's up to the states, which will be in the testing - and - accountability driver's seat, to figure out how to do this and to insist on tests that make it possible.

Our education system is out of balance and needs to be reset so that testing is merely one component for evaluating progress and not the main driver of student learning and school improvement.

It was kind of an equivilant of saying that studying out of a book for your drivers test will not make you a better driver.

As our time in the desert comes to an end, so does a 5000 - mile, flat - out test around the fearsome Nrburgring Nordschleife with veteran racer and test driver Dirk Schoysman at the wheel.

We'll see if that actually pans out, but for now it's exciting to see that Toyota is making good on their pursuit of more engaging and driver - focused cars, with TMG and rally sport as an excellent testing ground for the GT86 / Scion FR - S.

Bovingdon and Lieberman take the two cars to the road, a test track, and a racetrack, and along with pro driver Randy Pobst, figure out a winner.

The pedal goes long after a few laps and the M5 starts to shimmy and dance as the braking performance is tested, but they're going through an extreme and unrealistic regimen: Five fast laps with a half - hearted cool down lap, sit in the pits for three or four minutes soaking up all the heat as drivers swap, then repeat until the fuel tank is dry or the tires are worn out.

Unlike other nascent systems already under test, the Volvo XC90s will not require their drivers to be alert, look out the windshield, or maintain some control over the vehicle during the limited drive route.

Even the driving dynamics are true to the original, and Le Mans winner Andy Wallace, whose XJR - 9 it is sat out front, has been brought in as chief test driver.

And if you're in Germany, and you buy the driver's pack, you'll be able to test out the raised 190 - mph limiter.

Your numbers are way off, laziness and ignorance from your writers, Car & Driver, one of the only decent mags out there who takes the time and trouble to do and quote instrumented tests gives us the following 0 - 60's R8 V10 + 2.9 911 Turbo 2.6 Moral?

Block and Nair head out to Ford's test track in a camouflaged 2016 Ford Focus RS to see how the car responds at the hands of a highly trained driver like Block.

Bernie somehow figured out what every single editor liked and would reprogram every test car's radio every single day based on that evening's driver.

Our heavily specced test car is equipped with, amongst other things, Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping Aid systems, a Low Speed Safety System (helps you to avoid crashing in town), Traffic Sign Recognition (displays the last speed limit sign you passed), Driver Alert (works out how «with it» you are and whether you should stop for some caffeine), Blind Spot Information, Adaptive Cruise Control, Auto High Beam headlights, Stop - Start and Active Park Assist (which will identify a big enough kerbside parking space as you drive past and then steer you into it).

Their cars come from the factory with a support crew, which today includes an engineer, a technician and a test driver to check that the car is as it should be and offer advice on how to get the best out of it.

The 2008 model of the Scirocco received a five star safety rating from EuroNCAP even after the driver test dummy's head hit the steering wheel when the airbag bottomed out.

Okay, so lots of buyers will get a finance deal rather than shell out the whole lot in one hit, but whichever way you cut it, that amount of money will buy you an exceptional new drivers» car, as Jethro Bovingdon's group test has highlighted.

Euro NCAP awarded the MINI four stars out of five in crash safety tests, while it finished 44th out of the 75 cars ranked in our 2017 Driver Power owner satisfaction survey of cars currently on sale in the UK.

Some say the stretch of autostrada was closed and that the driver — a car dealer and wannabe racer — had taken the car out for a «pre-delivery test» without permission from the new owner.

It's currently testing out a plug - in hybrid version of the Ford Escape, and it could be an SUV that every driver could appreciate.

The S70 scored five out of five stars for front impact protection for driver and front passenger in the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety testing, [113] and four out of five stars for driver and rear passenger side impact protection.

Jaguar Land Rover is currently testing out its «360 - degree Virtual Urban Windscreen,» which gives drivers a full view of the environment around the car.

US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) crash testing of the 2004 US model year Prius yielded a five - star driver and four - star passenger rating in the frontal - collision test (out of five stars).

Intricately stitched leather and ergonomic design seats are among the details in which test drivers say that Porsche 911 is in a league of its own Take the guesswork out of where you are going with the top - tier navigation system found on this exceptional Porsche 911.

The CR - V VTi - L as tested does miss out on driver assistance technology, but still gets leather seats and offers a power tailgate and bigger panoramic sunroof.

This has plenty of variables to it, including the car being driven more aggressively than many EV drivers would, to test the car out in different situations.

Find out what this driver assistance feature it and how it works, and test it out near Long Island at Mercedes - Benz of Rockville Centre.

Art Answer: If the fuses checked out OK, the next thing to do would be remove the master switch in the driver's door and see if power is present at the switch, using a 12 - volt test light.

The Pacifica gets the required high marks in crash tests, but also comes with a slew of active and passive safety systems to keep drivers out of danger in the first place.

What's interesting: A professional driver carries out the test drive.

Intricately stitched leather and ergonomic design seats are among the details in which test drivers say that Toyota RAV4 is in a league of its own Looking for a Toyota RAV4 that is in great condition inside and out?