Sentences with phrase «test vehicles at»

In addition to the Venom F5, Hennessey Performance (HPE) upgrades more than 500 vehicles per year at its Texas facility that also includes its own test track — on which they regularly test vehicles at speeds exceeding 150 mph.

Given the practical realities of acquiring so many test vehicles at the same time, they aren't all priced exactly the same, but we've done our best.

However, Google has yet to test its vehicles in snowy climates like Michigan — where automakers like Ford, BMW and Nissan are testing their vehicles at the University of Michigan — making the state a promising candidate.

Two engineers, one in the front seat and another in the back, will monitor a test vehicle at all times for safety purposes.

Ford will show off an updated Fusion Hybrid autonomous test vehicle at CES in Las Vegas this month.

In Euro NCAP's test, a deformable barrier is mounted on a trolley and is driven at 50km / h into the side of the stationary test vehicle at right angles.

Not exact matches

As electric vehicles gain popularity, such technology could become as ubiquitous as stoplights, with chargers embedded at bus stops and in stop signs or even in roads themselves (the U.K. government is testing charging lanes on highways that would offer electric cars virtually unlimited driving range).

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

It is not yet clear whether Uber's system was at fault or not in the latest crash, but Uber has now halted all testing of its autonomous vehicles, with no clear timeline for reactivation.

Xtreme Xperience rents out luxury vehicles to customers who want to test - drive them on professional racetracks, starting at $ 99 (not including insurance).

In June, Shanghai opened the country's first intelligent vehicle pilot zone, where its trialed about 200 vehicles across nine miles (15 kilometers) of test roads in a closed zone at Shanghai's international automobile city, the government said in a statement.

Expect to lay out at least a few hundred dollars, depending on how much work needs to be done, says Dan Edmunds, director of vehicle testing at auto website Edmunds.com.

Fisker then suffered a series of mishaps, including a battery flaw that caused at least one of its vehicles to burst into flames, and a lurid episode with Consumer Reports, when its test Karma sedan failed to run at all, a first in the history of that publication.

Autonomous vehicles — like the self - driving cars that are already being road tested — could kill or at least dramatically alter between 2.2 and 3.1 million full - time and part - time U.S. jobs, the CEA has estimated.

At least in early test flights, he continued: There is a «real good chance that that vehicle does not make it to orbit.

China has reportedly tested its hypersonic strike vehicle called «Wu - 14,» which has been tested at least four times since January 2014.

In 2015, the company's test drivers disengaged — a jargon term that means they had to take manual control of the vehicle because the software failed or for safety reasons — at a rate of 0.8 times per 1,000 miles in California.

Waymo may be thinking along similar lines: It recently took a big step in that general direction, announcing that some of its test vehicles operating in Arizona will soon begin testing without a human driver standing by at the wheel.

The vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a human test driver behind the wheel.

And then when we, I think John Markoff wrote a story, discovering that we were testing and driving the vehicles in public, that's when all the car companies realized at the first level that something might happen.

An autonomous version of Acura's RLX Sport Hybrid SH - AWD is pictured during a media tour of carmaker Honda's testing grounds at the GoMentum Station autonomous vehicle test facility in Concord, California June 1, 2016.

Tonight at 5 pm: Uber suspended all of its self - driving testing Monday after what is believed to be the first fatal pedestrian crash involving the vehicles.

At the end of August, the company received a permit to run self - driving car tests in California, alongside an earlier permit that it got in Korea, and announcements like today's will make sure that they will have not just their own tech, but that of partners, to put into those vehicles.

Once customers find what they want, they are connected with an «express manager» who arranges for them to test drive or pick up their vehicle at a local certified dealership.

As is required for Uber's autonomous test vehicles operating on public roads, the AV had a safety driver at the wheel.

An autonomous Uber test SUV driving in Tempe, Arizona was involved in a fatal collision last night, and the Uber vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time the accident occurred, according to Tempe Police (via Daisuke Wakabayashi).

Engineers at the start - up evangelical missions agency, headquartered in the flat, rural expanses of northern Florida, roll their exotic vehicle from its hangar for critical tests.

Noting that «a majority of the Justices has at various times expressed their disapproval of the Lemon test» (Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy have also criticized Lemon, but voted not to hear this case), Scalia wrote that he would have used this case as a vehicle «to inter the Lemon test once for all.»

In addition to an allergy flare - up, Sam has been testing out each of my already - frazzled nerves with his dependence, Jade has had an on - again off - again issue with a girl at school, we are still on the house hunt with nothing in sight (the «dream» home fell through for the time being), and we are down a vehicle thanks to some atypical bad luck.

Maximum load designated by the manufacturer that can be placed anywhere on the platform of a vehicle, axle - load or livestock scale using the prescribed test pattern (an area at least 4 feet long and as wide as the scale platform).

Now living in Swarthmore, Pa. and employed at General Electric's Space Sciences Laboratories, he is developing techniques for testing space - vehicle materials.

«We are considering a number of proposals... that include how to introduce different forms of congestion pricing, including potential fees on for - hire vehicles,» said a Cuomo official, who noted that the administration has been testing out «reverse congestion pricing» by cutting truck tolls in half at night.

Given this promise — in addition to a February 2012 Department of Energy announcement of a $ 30 million competition aimed at finding ways «to harness our abundant supplies of domestic natural gas for vehicles» — Duoba and his colleague have been ramping up vehicle systems analysis and engine research and testing around CNG as a way to wean ourselves off of foreign fuel sources.

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

Whereas in this experiment the scientists tested nanoscale environments at room temperature to about 1300 degrees Celsius (2372 degrees Fahrenheit), the HERMES could be useful for studying devices working across a wide range of temperatures, for example, electronics that operate under ambient conditions to vehicle catalysts that perform over 300 C / 600 F.

Neil Jones, programme manager at Upside Energy, said: «These tests at a single house level (Energy House) will help us establish a baseline of data which could be scaled up to hundreds if not thousands of homes and vehicles and start to identify what services can be offered to householders and the grid in the future.»

This year, he said, «I was trained as a software developer for KSC's new firing room, where they will launch future manned and unmanned space vehicles, and spent most of my time developing code to test the various software displays for the liquid oxygen tank that is out at the launch pad.»

Toyota, currently the world's largest producer of hybrid vehicles by far thanks to the success of its Prius, announced that it expects to have a commercially viable plug - in hybrid available to consumers as early as 2010 and is now testing prototype versions of plug - in hybrids at two California universities.

The vehicle will redock with Zvezda on April 25 at 8:16 a.m. Progress 53 delivered 2.9 tons of food, fuel and supplies to the station on Nov. 29 following a four - day journey that included a «flyby» of the station to test a new lighter, revamped Kurs system.

Mobility researchers at the University of Michigan have devised a new way to test autonomous vehicles that bypasses the billions of miles they would need to log for consumers to consider them road - ready.

«Even the most advanced and largest - scale efforts to test automated vehicles today fall woefully short of what is needed to thoroughly test these robotic cars,» said Huei Peng, director of Mcity and the Roger L. McCarthy Professor of Mechanical Engineering at U-M.

For instance, the vehicle was measured as being almost 300 kilograms heavier than the type test regulations allow for — not out of spite, but because the car drives around the streets at this weight.

NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne, the prime contractor for RS - 25 engine work, conducted a series of developmental tests on the RS - 25 engine last year at Stennis, primarily to validate the capabilities of a new controller — or, «brain» — for the engine and to verify the different operating conditions needed for the SLS vehicle.

«The engineers at Marshall were developing a simple adaptive control law, and wanted to flight test it,» said Chris Miller, chief engineer for the Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control (LVAC) project at NASA Armstrong.

The technology developed and tested at Waterloo is much simpler and far less expensive, paving the way for its use in engines for power generation, mining vehicles, the trucking industry and a host of other applications, including the consumer automotive market.

Home > Press > Tiny nanomachine successfully completes test drive: Researchers at the University of Bonn and the research institute Caesar build a one - wheeled vehicle out of DNA rings

This vehicle will be used for a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.

On May 25, the team, which includes co-principal investigators Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dana Yoerger of WHOI who were responsible for development of the vehicle's navigation and control system, conducted a planned sequence of successively deeper dives — testing Nereus, making scientific observations and collecting deep - sea samples at each depth they reached.

THE KAVLI FOUNDATION: At the end of 2011 there were several news stories about how a battery in the Chevy Volt, GM's first mainstream electric vehicle since the EV1, caught fire several weeks after the car was subject to crash testing.

Nearly two years after it launched, the US Air Force's reusable, unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ended its classified mission on Sunday, becoming the first spacecraft in nearly six years to touch down at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing...