Sentences with phrase «than a vehicle of»

The reception of the Eucharist is rightly at the center of all believing Catholics» lives, but participation in the Eucharist is more of an objective advent of grace than a vehicle of experienced grace.

Some might conclude that cities are more often an arena for confrontation and vicious competition than a vehicle of cooperation.

Among the stars shine two Mercedes - Benz models, the G - Class and the S - Class, none other than the vehicles of choice for the villainous Jason Statham's henchmen.

Not exact matches

Nowhere is the climate fight more important than in China, the world's largest spewer of greenhouse gases, which is in the midst of an unprecedented promotion of electric cars: Last year, sales of electric and plug - in hybrid vehicles in China rose 50 % to 507,000, more than three times the U.S. figure.

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.

In 2016, no fewer than 36 of these tank - like vehicles were robbed at gunpoint (see pages 9 and 10).

The volatility of bitcoin has made it more useful as a vehicle for speculation than as a currency, say critics — when the value can change drastically from hour to hour, it introduces undesirable risk for sellers and buyers alike.

Nissan sold about 9,000 Leaf cars in the first six months of the year, whereas Tesla sold more than 20,000 vehicles during the same time period.

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.

The range of the Model S is longer, and it can carry more passengers than other electric vehicles.

More than 2,600 pedestrians are injured from motor - vehicle - related accidents in B.C. every year, and as many as 67 of those die as a result.

Back in 2000, when more than a 100 people died in Ford Explorers, many of them equipped with Firestone tires, there was a national debate over large sport - utility vehicles and whether they were prone to rollover.

More than 145,000 of the vehicles would be sold over the next three years.

In addition to the aforementioned tanks of yeast, the tie is a good vehicle for casually referencing scientists» previous failed attempts at mass producing spider silk (a valuable material that is tougher than regular silk and can be machine washed.)

Though there were more SUVs sold than trucks, truck sales made up just over 16 % of all vehicles sold.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has accused Fiat of using «hidden software» that appeared to make some of its vehicles perform differently in testing than on - road use, according to a Reuters report.

To reach Marchionne's sales projection, those models would have to combine to sell about 50 percent more vehicles than what all of Fiat Chrysler delivered last year.

Battery - powered cars offered by the likes of Tesla are gaining traction faster than fuel cell vehicles backed by Hyundai and Toyota Motor Corp..

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..

Higher commercial rental and ChoiceLease performance was more than offset by higher depreciation of $ 10 million due to vehicle residual value changes implemented January 1, 2018, used vehicle sales results, and overhead spending.

The unit was once the backbone of its Asian strategy and still makes more than 1 million assembled or partially assembled vehicles for the U.S., European and emerging markets.

More than 11,000 military personnel, 69 warplanes and helicopters, and 149 military vehicles paraded through Red Square to salute President Vladimir Putin, including the first public appearance of the Tor - M2U, a state - of - the - art anti-aircraft missile system.

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.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

The average monthly payment for those vehicles leased between April and June was $ 407, with more than 70 percent of those leases stretching out two to three years.

The demand may prove a bigger problem than potentially increasing the overall North American automotive value content from the current level of 62.5 % for tariff - free shipments of vehicles within the region, which officials say Trump's administration also wants to raise.

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.

More than just new vehicles, expect to see a large number of devices that will take that slightly older car you have and make it smart as well.

Just this week, shares of debt - laden and intermittently - profitable carmaker Tesla, which delivered just 76,230 vehicles in 2016, managed to become more valuable than GM for a few moments in the eyes of the market.

So sedans and other cars are expected to still form more than a quarter of all consumer vehicle sales in the U.S., but the overall trend appears to be that American companies especially are giving up trying to sell cars to Americans.

The display is more important than ever before as Tesla got rid of the instrument cluster for its newest vehicle.

While the S.E.C. requires companies with more than 499 investors to disclose their financial results to the public, Goldman's proposed special purpose vehicle may be able get around such a rule because it would be managed by Goldman and considered just one investor, even though it could conceivably be pooling investments from thousands of clients.

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.

In 2009, General Motors killed its Pontiac line of vehicles, which was named for the city, and then announced the closure of two local plants, putting more than 2,000 people out of work and costing the city a huge chunk of tax revenue.

Authorities said the duo had stolen more than 40 firearms in 161 vehicle break - ins across dozens of locations since January.

Arx Pax's system is potentially much less expensive than existing maglev systems, which rely on complex electromagnetic systems in both vehicle and tracks and can cost tens of millions of dollars per mile.

And city streets — which are being overcrowded by the influx of ride - hailing vehicles, according to some reports — could become less congested as a ride - sharing fleet moves commuters around en masse, rather than individuals relying on their own cars to get to work.

Six years ago, a survey by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators estimated that more than 9 million cars in the United States had vanity plates.

The case was tossed not just because of bad punctuation, but because Ms. Cammelleri argued that she was unable to understand the specifics of a city ordinance banning parking vehicles for more than twenty four hours.

More than half of the vehicles made in the United States by German carmakers are exported, the VDA added, supporting the U.S. foreign trade balance.

But first Google needs to reduce the cost of its sensor - covered vehicles from around $ 170,000 today to less than $ 30,000, according to a person familiar with the company's plans.

Thanks to cheap sensors, powerful machine - learning technology, and a kick in the butt from the likes of Google googl and Tesla Motors tsla, driverless vehicles are becoming a sooner - than - you - think reality.

The unfortunate reality is the opposite: Electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesn't burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1 % of their total vehicle sales.

The aircraft is designed to fly to remote forward bases to resupply soldiers and evacuate casualties — at a cost per vehicle of «less than a small helicopter,» according to a Lockheed Martin official.

Dyson has worked extensively on lightweight materials, leading several people to speculate the first vehicle may be substantially comprised of plastics rather than metals, something usually reserved for high - end supercars.

It began with Musk announcing the rollout of the latest version of its «Autopilot» feature for «Hardware 2» (HW2) vehicles, which contain newer sensor and computing hardware than previous models (HW1).

But for Tesla to become primarily an energy company would be like General Motors to shift its emphasis to creating steering wheels for vehicles of all types rather than for management to think of it as a car manufacturer.

The social giant collects much more information than that, which results in at least 600 targeting options including household income, level of education, home type, home value, home ownership status, household composition, parents of children with specific ages, newly engaged couples, new vehicle buyers, expats, a variety of buyer profiles, people who frequently buy online, frequent travelers, and much more.

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.