Sentences with phrase «than a driver as»

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In the 2011 Canadian census, more than 260,000 people described themselves as truck drivers, making it the second-most common job in the country for men.

At benefits company Stride Health, which sells and manages healthcare benefits to «gig» workers like Uber drivers, CEO Noah Lang said that he would want to be sure that the replacement plan has tax credits available to people as they need them, rather than at the end of the year only.

These drivers could be reclassified as employees of the company, rather than independent contractors, if the lawsuit prevails.

As Harry Campbell, founder of the Rideshare Guy website, told the Guardian, «The most common feedback we hear from drivers is they end up earning a lot less than they expected.»

As for Schlumberger, investors appear jittery about the stock, in part because the world's supplier of oilfield equipment has less exposure to the lucrative shale market ---- the biggest near - term driver for sales ---- than competitors.

Autopilot is marketed by Tesla as a semi-autonomous driving system rather than fully autonomous that handles all aspects of driving in certain conditions without expectation of the driver's involvement.

Comment: Despite some macro slowdown and stock market gyrations in China, we remain confident in our $ 625 million forecast for FY 2016 even at current exchange rates and optimistic on the prospects for this market over the long - term as the drivers we've consistently mentioned are more relevant than ever,» said CEO Victor Luis.

For me, as a race car driver used to things happening in fractions of a second, two more years was almost more than I could deal with.

Uber's willingness to ban racists will likely be received well by many drivers, more than half of whom were non-white as of January 2015.

Shuddle guarantees drivers $ 30 an hour, according to Lutz, which is more than they'd make as a nanny — or driving for Uber or Lyft in the Bay Area.

In January, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he expected Uber to roll out an autonomous ride - hailing service by mid-2019, but that timeline may be pushed back, as the company will have to provide reassurance that an autonomous ride - hailing service will be safer for passengers and pedestrians than one operated by human drivers.

And dispatchers get access to more than just mapped - location data: FMS's sensors can measure vehicle speed and battery voltage, as well as the length of time a driver spends at a location.

Uber drivers in the richest countries also generally fall into this category but, as owners rather than employees, they are relatively better off than those in countries like Pakistan and India.

This is the latest development in the fight for drivers of ridesharing apps to be classified as employees rather than independent contractors.

The closure of Silk Road in October, the online marketplace that allegedly allowed more than a billion dollars of illegal drugs and illicit services to be bought using the virtual currency, is cited as another major driver.

The U.S. has more available trucking jobs than qualified drivers, as older workers retire.

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

If allowed to proceed as a class action, the 2013 lawsuit could cover more than 160,000 California drivers and give plaintiffs leverage to negotiate a settlement.

«The findings showed no mineralogical evidence for abundant liquid water or its by - products, thus pointing to mechanisms other than the flow of water — such as the freeze and thaw of carbon dioxide frost — as being the major drivers of recent gully evolution,» the team explained in the press release.

Golub added, «Going forward, we believe that SG&A will be the most important driver of margins as compensation grows at a slower pace than revenues.

Meanwhile, just last month the New York State Department of Labor announced that it had awarded unemployment benefits to two Uber drivers after finding that they were actually employees rather than independent workers, as all drivers who use the platform to find customers are classified.

Women see lesser business potential in the SDGs related to the planet than men, but they see greater business potential in peace, whereas men and women both rate jobs and inclusive economies as the greatest drivers of business potential.

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Uber is planning to tweak the historical pick - up and drop - off logs that drivers can see in order to slightly obscure the exact location, rather than planting an exact pin in it (as now).

«Defendants hold themselves out as nothing more than a neutral technological platform, designed simply to enable drivers and passengers to transact the business of transportation,» the Labor Commissioner's Office wrote about Uber.

Even a statement as simple as «people are less likely to be involved in accidents while Autopilot is engaged» could be misleading if drivers tend to rely on Autopilot more in ideal driving conditions, rather than challenging ones, and the distinction isn't taken into account.

The driver's LinkedIn profile identifies him as a software engineer who joined Apple Inc. in November after more than a decade at Electronic Arts Inc..

Vancouver sits less than 750 miles from the Canadian oil sands but it may as well be on another continent for vehicle drivers.

As the Country Head of Singapore for Grab, Lim took Grab from being unheard of a few years ago, to having more drivers on the platform than all of Singapore's taxi companies combined.

In October 2016, Tesla announced that all vehicles in production, as well as the forthcoming Model 3, will be built with an updated hardware suite, equipping each Tesla with the hardware needed for full self - driving capability at a safety level substantially greater than that of a human driver.

Growth stocks lead Value as Technology stocks were a significant driver of returns, accounting for more than 40 % of the S&P 500 Index gains in Q1.

As an example of the failings of Uber's background checks, the complaint cites the more than 8,000 drivers in Massachusetts who were pulled off the road after the state government decided to introduce more stringent screenings and reviewed the records of the 71,000 people who drove on Uber or Lyft.

The lawsuit, if allowed to proceed as a class action, could cover more than 160,000 California drivers.

CONCLUSION: While this topic was not covered on TSLA's 1Q18 conference call last night (our analysis on this call will be published shortly), given Autopilot is among the main key drivers of TSLA's current valuation, and the «Autopilot was found by the U.S. government to reduce crash rates by as much as 40 %» line has been used by TSLA time - and - time again, we feel this development could prove more important than the company's earnings conference call yesterday.

As if that's not bad enough, a 2016 study from Insurance Quotes found that someone with fair credit could pay «28 percent more for car insurance than a driver with excellent credit.»

A similar strategy was pursued in the creation of the Big Bertha golf driver (Callaway Golf), which was larger than previous golf clubs and positioned as a club that would significantly improve the performance of even indifferent golfers.

Look no further than here: The ratings agencies seem to be in the driver's seat here as...

While the lithium business is accretive to company financials (I couldn't find an instance where it wasn't), the small relative size of these numbers renders the lithium business as a «nice to have» or niche rather than real drivers of overall financial performance.

These goods are transported by a combination of 3rd party fleet as well as Walmart Canada's fleet of 180 tractors, 2,000 trailers and more than 350 drivers.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

But sure, the relevant issues are more in regard to effectivity, such as that two machines with drivers can harvest a field quicker than a dozen or so men, and while a life without any work can be boring and / or decadent very quickly (and similarly such with no physical activity whatsoever), an overall system e.g. where productivity and numbers are «alpha and omega» seems to be very out of touch not only with nature.

Nor can it interest me otherwise than historically that Socrates» or Prodicus» doctrine was this or that; for the Truth in which I rest was within me, and came to light through myself, and not even Socrates could have given it to me, as little as the driver can pull the load for the horses, though he may help them by applying the lash.3 My relation to Socrates or Prodicus can not concern me with respect to my eternal happiness, for this is given me retrogressively through my possession of the Truth, which I had from the beginning without knowing it.

For more than a decade, truck drivers have voted the Iron Skillet as the best restaurant on the interstate.

Huge potholes resembling Serbian mortar craters caused drivers to weave about as if under the influence of an exotic tropical drug, and the maximum speed through the former banana port was about five miles an hour, slower even than in Nancy and Jeff's earthquake - ravaged Cahuita!

Liberty Media is starting to take Formula 2 a bit more seriously than it otherwise has been in the past, as news has already emerged that upcoming superlicence changes are going to make it more or less compulsory for young drivers with F1 ambitions.

«I think we've got as good of a chance to win it all as anyone,» says Busch, 32, who finished the regular season 10th in the standings and with more top 10s (15) than any other driver save Harvick (who had 17).

«Peter's got more daring as a driver than Billy,» Liverman says.

It wasn't entirely John's fault though — Lotus boss Colin Chapman saw Miles as little more than a test driver and didn't put anywhere near the effort into his car as they did for Rindt.

But in the Indy 500 every single one of the drivers can realistically envision themselves as the winner, because there's so much more to it than just being fast (the last five winners all started from outside the top 10).

Add on top of that the need to drive a certain way to make a strategy work, or how to deal with dirty air from other cars and you've got driver who have as much on their plates - if not more - than F1 drivers, albeit with much more disastrous consequences for getting it wrong.