Sentences with phrase «than a vehicle driven»

Therefore, they impose much higher demands on the detection capabilities of assistant systems than vehicles driving ahead.

A vehicle driven by someone who has no record of road - safety violations is considered less exposed to risk than a vehicle driven by an individual who has been involved in vehicular accidents or has been constantly reprimanded by the traffic police.

You must know that a collision will have more impact at 15mph than a vehicle driving at 10mph.

Not exact matches

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.

For more than a year prior to a fatal crash in Arizona, Uber's self - driving cars failed more often, and more dramatically, than competitors» autonomous vehicles.

Rather than expose miners to the risk of a human error - induced accident involving a multi-ton vehicle, Clearpath takes the driving out of human hands.

Before self - driving cars can be deployed on a mass scale they need to be able to do more than recognize objects in the surrounding environment; they also need to be able to communicate with other vehicles.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

Last year, Hyundai launched its first mass - market pure electric car IONIQ, but the vehicle's per - charge driving range is much shorter than offerings from Tesla and GM.

Millennials ranked having children, buying a suburban home and driving a big family vehicle higher in terms of importance than living in a major city or relying on alternate forms of transportation in a survey that Ford conducted in June.

And considering that transportation represents more than half of all oil use in the world, the type of vehicles we're driving will have a huge impact on that industry.

Many safety experts believe that self - driving or autonomous vehicles will be inherently safer than today's vehicles.

But the real 500 - pound gorilla in this room is Tesla, whose vehicles have have logged 222 million miles in Autopilot mode, and gathered more than 1.3 billion miles worth of driving data.

Waymo said engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files in December 2015 containing designs for autonomous vehicles before he went on to lead Uber's self - driving car unit in 2016.

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.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

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.

«At the same time, we see significant momentum for alternative energy vehicles, an inferior competitive landscape and continued progress on Model 3 production driving more than 70 % top - line growth this year, easily one of the fastest ever by a multibillion - dollar company.

Due to the Bolt's compact size, I found it more fun to drive than both the Tesla Model S and the Model X, but not the original Roadster, a much smaller vehicle.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

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.

By the end of the first year of volume production of our mass market vehicle, we expect the Gigafactory will have driven down the per kWh cost of our battery pack by more than 30 percent.

More than three out of four Americans are afraid of the prospect of riding in a self - driving vehicle, a new survey by AAA finds.

To clinch the esteemed title of 2017 Bendix Grand Champion, Bolduc's driving accuracy and knowledge of truck safety surpassed the more than 420 other state champion professional truck drivers competing in all vehicle classes in Orlando, Florida this week.

BMW drove fewer miles than some of the other major companies and only had its vehicles on public roads in March and April of 2016.

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.

Waymo's vehicles in the Phoenix area have driven more than 4 million miles on public roads.

For example, Nvidia makes chips and software used by more than 100 companies developing autonomous vehicles and driving capabilities.

Uber's fleet of Volvo self - driving vehicles that are now prowling the streets of San Francisco have fewer sensors than those UberX plying the Pittsburgh area.

Now, after a series of tests in Arizona, Ford can say its research vehicle can drive better than a human in complete darkness.

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.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

But to do that, autonomous vehicles have to drive better than humans in all situations.

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.

Overall, there's recognition that self - driving cars implicate the manufacturer of the vehicle more than its driver or operator.

Let's be clear about this: Musk has no statistical grounds to state categorically that autonomous systems are safer than human - driven vehicles.

S&P Global Platts Analytics expects accelerating global Electric Vehicle penetration, rising from a little more than 500,000 sales in 2015 to over 7 million by 2025 — driving a surge in demand for lithium - ion batteries.

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.

In fact, as data demand surges — a trend driven particularly by autonomous vehicles — Morgan Stanley estimates that the per - megabyte cost of wireless data will be less than 1 % of today's levels.

He's never driven it more than 10 - 15 miles a day, to and from work, so it served it's purpose in that regard but I didn't consider it to be a safe or reliable vehicle.

And what better way to celebrate than to highlight one of our grantees who is using their school salad bars as a vehicle to drive farm to school forward: Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD) in Madison, WI.

For the women and men behind the wheel of Coke Consolidated's more than 3,300 delivery vehicles, driving is only part of their job.

We were looking to downgrade into a smaller vehicle — and strongly considered a hybrid — until we learned that the freeway mileage we get in our driven once or twice a week Expedition is just as good, if not better, than the smaller vehicles we looked at.

Fuel consumption was excellent real world, and we were bang on 10L / 100 km with mostly city driving which was much better than the other vehicles we have driven in this class.

If fuel duty & car taxes are reduced to counter the road pricing / congestion charges then I'm more likely to drive an inefficient, polluting vehicle because its no more expensive than driving an Prius (forget the power generated pollution).

People driving regular passenger vehicles who had an E-ZPass enrolled in the program would pay $ 5.50 to cross, Previously, drivers who crossed the bridge more than three times a month paid $ 6, and those who crossed less paid $ 6.36.

In government, it can sometimes feel like you are trying to steer a heavy goods vehicle, rather than drive a light and nippy sports car.

In our exclusive reporting on Latimer's July car crash in which Latimer appears to have run a red light leading to a collision that injured two people, we asked two signifcant questions that Latimer refused to answer: why was he driving Westbound along Wilmot Road in New Rochelle in such a rush on a late Friday afternoon and why he was driving a Jeep owned by his Community Outreach Director rather than his own vehicle.

But while fuel - cell vehicles are pushing the technological frontier, they drive like any traditional internal combustion engine vehicle, with a 300 - mile range and a refueling time of less than five minutes.

Via Motors, a company backed by former General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, unveiled four extended - range electric work vehicles at NAIAS that it says can get more than 100 mpg in regular driving conditions.