• Successfully developed 15
testing vehicles from concept to completion.
We try to cover as much of the marketplace as we can,
testing vehicles from a range of manufacturers and with high sales numbers.
Mid-range Middies For consistency we've selected
our tested vehicles from the middle of the pack in terms of pricing and equipment.
But the 2008 Enclave, Buick's most significant new vehicle in years, is already on sale, so we took matters into our own hands and secured
a test vehicle from a Detroit - area Buick dealer.
This particular car is
a test vehicle from the factory fleet and as a result, is showing a bit of wear from its road miles.
Not exact matches
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.
Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous
vehicle veterans
from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit
from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start
testing self - driving cars on public roads there.
The company removes self - driving cars
from city streets after California regulators said Uber needed to obtain a permit to
test the
vehicles.
Troops
from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who took part in the
testing in Maryland, spoke highly of the new features on the
vehicle, which has been nicknamed «Dragoon» after the regiment.
Now, California's motor
vehicles officials face an end - of - year deadline to write regulations that will allow driverless cars to go
from testing to use by the public in June 2015.
Army personnel recently traveled
from Germany to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland for
testing and training on new variants of the Stryker Infantry Carrier
Vehicle.
The state has licensed 27 companies to
test driverless
vehicles on public roads, including
vehicle manufacturers
from BMW to Tesla Inc; suppliers such as Delphi Automotive Plc and Nvidia Corp; technology companies such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo and China's Baidu Inc; and a long list of self - driving startups such as Zoox, Drive.ai, AutoX and PlusAI.
Volkswagen AG CEO Martin Winterkorn is set to be grilled by the executive committee of the company's board as the fallout
from its emissions cheating scandal spreads.Winterkorn issued a video apology Tuesday, after the company admitted that 11 million
vehicles worldwide run software that cheat local emissions
tests.
The company needs time to build up its fleet
from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the
vehicles smog
tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.
Monday's accident may also call into question new regulations
from states like California and Arizona that are letting auto and tech companies
test self - driving
vehicles without human backup drivers that can intervene if the
vehicle makes a mistake.
The fallout
from the accident could stall the development and
testing of self - driving
vehicles, designed to eventually perform far better than human drivers and to sharply reduce the number of motor
vehicle fatalities that occur each year.
Three tactics proved especially promising: 1) moving away
from «direct» sales and toward integrated campaigns that drove purchases in retail stores; 2) using DRTV as an inexpensive
testing vehicle, rather than an all - or - nothing launch pad; and 3) maximizing margins by relentlessly optimizing costs and sales prices.
The problem was discovered via internal
testing, per Tesla, and basically involves the cable that controls the reclining of the two rear seats being too tight in some
vehicles, which means that when the seats are folded back up
from a flat position, they might not fully lock in place again.
The 200
vehicles, which consist of both the Model S sedans and the Model X SUVs
from Tesla, will be
tested in the «autopilot» mode, which currently requires a human driver to be present.
Shanghai - based SAIC Motor Corp and electric
vehicle start - up NIO also got permissions
from the Chinese government to start
testing their autonomous
vehicle technology.
It's likely this new round of crash
tests could force automakers to further modify the frame and structures of the front of their
vehicles so they better protected passengers
from one of the deadliest collisions.
These simulated urban environments will be
from CARLA, an open - source simulator for autonomous
vehicle testing developed by Intel Labs and the Computer Vision Center.
During the early phase of self - driving
vehicle testing, Arizona refrained
from adding new restrictions on companies
testing on state roads, Biesty said, adding they did not believe any new regulations would add to safety.
China's Ministry of Transport, along with other authorities, has said that
from next month (link in Chinese) all provincial and city governments will have the authority to allow road -
testing of autonomous
vehicles in their areas.
The company notes that
testing the
vehicles in real - life scenarios greatly improves the software, as it is programmed to learn
from experience.
Another prong, issued by the Federal Highway Administration, seeks to determine what is needed
from an infrastructure standpoint to help support the
testing and use of automated
vehicles.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is doing
tests using semi-automated
vehicles including models
from Tesla, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover and General Motors Co..
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.
In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications
from companies interested in
testing the
vehicles on public roads.
A few days later, orders and documents were issued
from Albany to all local departments of motor -
vehicle offices that drivers would no longer have to submit to eye
tests — eye charts are posted behind every clerk's window — in order to renew their licenses.
Join the fast track and access Millbrook's premier
test facility and drive a range of large commercial
vehicles from refuse trucks to buses and dumper trucks.
Ironically, with much talk currently over EU Type Approval regulations, it is Article 4 (2) of EU Directive 2009 / 40 / EC, that allows governments to exempt pre - 1960
vehicles and in fact brings requirements into line with the unladen pre-1960 manufactured HGVs, which are already exempted
from the MOT
testing.
HARLEM — A licensed Department of Motor
Vehicles inspector
from an East Harlem garage was one of four people charged with allegedly issuing more than 7,000 safety inspection certificates without
testing the
vehicles, State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced Thursday.
Rockland Voice has confirmed
from several sources within the Town that Sambevski
tested positive for a controlled substance yet was allegedly permitted to continue driving Town
vehicles on his CDL license after this information was made known to Highway Superintendent Ballard.
The researchers collected exhaust gases
from test vehicles in a 12 - cubic - meter blow - up chamber with transparent Teflon film walls.
Instead of using a blood
test, Armentano says that police should look for poor maneuvering and the smell of pot wafting
from the
vehicle.
In October 2014 the U.S. Air Force's X-37B Orbital
Test Vehicle — 3 returned
from a mission where some analysts believe it was
testing technologies for hypersonic missiles — weapons capable of hitting any target on Earth within an hour — and, possibly, techniques for repairing or disabling satellites.
In the end, the driving personalities of the two
test vehicles, with a few exceptions, were close enough to those of ordinary gasoline - powered cars that if buyers ultimately reject fuel - cell machines, it won't be because the cars seem unfamiliar
from behind the wheel.
The team's end - to - end research approach includes theoretical analysis of SOPs in the environment, building specialized software - defined radios (SDRs) that will extract relevant timing and positioning information
from SOPs, developing practical navigation algorithms, and finally
testing the system on ground
vehicles and unmanned drones.
Last year, the Norwegian company BRING
tested several electric
vehicles for express goods delivery, and data
from the Grønn Bydistribusjon (Green Urban Distribution) project were so encouraging that the company purchased an electric goods
vehicle for permanent use.
The prevalence of non-alcohol drugs detected in fatally injured drivers in the U.S. has been steadily rising and tripled
from 1999 to 2010 for drivers who
tested positive for marijuana — the most commonly detected non-alcohol drug — suggesting that drugged driving may be playing an increasing role in fatal motor
vehicle crashes.
During a recent
test, a Navy laser using a tracking system
from Raytheon shot down four unmanned aerial
vehicles
This past October Sierra Nevada
tested the automated landing system by dropping the Dream Chaser
from a helicopter; the
vehicle's approach to the runway was spot - on, although a mechanical malfunction prevented one of the wheels
from deploying, sending the
vehicle skidding off the runway.
The
vehicles were designed to shield astronauts
from the low temperatures and vacuum of space; the new craft were
tested on two monkeys and on Ham, a chimpanzee.
That includes the cost of developing two new launch
vehicles from scratch (Falcon 1 and Falcon 9), developing the Dragon spacecraft, conducting seven launches, including an orbital
test flight of Dragon, and building out the infrastructure for two separate launch sites.
In civil cases, such as a lawsuit for damages
from a
vehicle accident or
from a medical problem,
testing and analysis by a qualified forensic scientist may be used by either side to address the validity of the allegations in the suit.
Furthermore, they were coached by Dru's father, a practical role model who impressed upon them
from the outset that basketball was «more than a game,» to help them see it was a
vehicle to be used «to get
from Point A to Point B.» LeBron and company took that message to heart, cultivating not only character, individually, but a chemistry and cohesiveness, collectively, which would stand the
test of time.
As a result, Bonilla's 484 becomes the only legislative
vehicle for moving the state
from the STAR
tests to the new computer - based assessments.
Under pressure
from the state of North Carolina to rescue failing schools and deliver better student performance, Smith use regular
testing, at least four times a year, as his
vehicle to make certain that students were held to state standards and not left to fall through the cracks.
According to a report
from Engadget, the Japanese automaker received an Autonomous
Vehicle Testing Permit
from the California DMV on February 9.