Sentences with phrase «than engineering standards»

As performance standards, rather than engineering standards, the Five Freedoms define outcomes and imply criteria for assessment, but do not prescribe the methods by which to achieve these outcomes.»

Not exact matches

«One of the telltale signs,» says CARB's Young, «was that the car was running much cleaner when cold than when it was hot — contrary to standard automobile engineering.»

Reinventing the square wheel is the practice of unnecessarily engineering artifacts that provide functionality already provided by existing standard artifacts (reinventing the wheel) and ending up with a worse result than the standard (a square wheel).

New hot - embossing technology and an in - house engineered calander are used to create a film that has a higher seal integrity than standard polyethylene and weighs up to 30 % less, while still having the same thickness as standard packaging.

Hoka has engineered a unique performance midsole geometry that features a higher volume, softer density, and greater rebounding foam than standard running shoes.

While these ads offer an element of truth, consumers beware: engineered recovery foods are not more effective than standard foods.

Britax Americas sets and exceeds safety standards in the U.S and Canada, and engineers, tests and assembles more than 90 percent of its car seats in the United States.

These kits contain more than 1,000 standard biological parts known as BioBricks, the DNA - based building blocks that participants need to engineer a biological system for entering into the competition.

So rather than try to engineer our way around that, Slated designed its process to harness that subjectivity by applying the same set of rigorous standards to the way readers assess every script, based on the same objective criteria that buyers and reps themselves use to judge material.

By installing an extra rubber bushing and link in the usually solid front control arms, Ram engineers allow the Power Wagon's front live axle to twist more than in a standard 2500, again providing more articulation.

The Vantage GT8 starts at # 165,000, or a chunky # 70,000 more than a standard V8 Vantage, but the extra cost is more than justified by the race - inspired engineering.

Sonic lead engineer Joaquin Nuno - Whelan also attributes the ballast to a relatively large footprint (about 1.5 - inches bigger than the Fiesta in both wheelbase and track) and a class - leading ten standard airbags.

It is, however, the measure of VW's twisted brilliance and deep engineering bent that it bothered to elaborately game the system rather than just fail to meet the standard straight up, as more practical creeps might have done.

I realize that Mercedes» main concern when designing and engineering the G - wagen was not focused on where you put your Starbucks, but at more than $ 100,000, an integrated cupholder should be standard.

It had the same 0.921 in (23.4 mm)- diameter lifters of the first - generation Oldsmobile engines, rather than the standard 0.842 in (21.4 mm), which let engineers increase the camshaft's ramp speed for more power, 385 hp (287 kW), without sacrificing idle or reliability.

«Our cars are built more for the standards of our engineers and the expectations of European driving enthusiasts than the tastes of the American market,» Wilhite says.

«Eco Electric» fender badging replaces the «Soul» fender garnish found on the gasoline - powered car, and the Soul EV gets its own set of distinctive 16 - inch alloy wheels wrapped with specially engineered Super Low Rolling Resistance (SLRR) tires that offer 10 percent less resistance than standard low rolling resistance tires, helping to improve range.

A suspension lift of about 75 mm using stock springs and AEV - Bilstein - tuned digressive - valving series 5100 shocks is not a collection of parts but rather an engineered system that provides roll control equal to or better than original, and meets the same motor vehicle safety standards as production trucks; in combination with the fender flares, it allows no - rub fitment of the big tires without astronomic ride height.

All considered, and assuming poor NVH control in one Macan S was an aberration rather than the standard, the Macan is an automotive - engineering marvel.

Standard Lancias were generally more conservative than a comparable Alfa or Maserati, however Lancia cars are often compared with the likes of Mercedes - Benz for their level of build quality and engineering excellence.

However, compared to the standard GTI, VW's engineers has been bumped up the output to 265 PS (195 kW), which is 35 PS more than normal.

Engineers also reworked the transmission's shift logic, and the eight - speed can swap cogs up to 50 percent quicker than the gearbox found in a standard Range Rover Sport.

The Soul EV has been engineered to provide stable handling characteristics and a comfortable ride in urban environments, and with a stiffer bodyshell than the standard Soul, Kia engineers have been able to improve ride comfort of the electric model.

To achieve that, Jeep engineers outfitted the Trailhawk with a long list of standard hardware, including a specially tuned version of Quadra - Lift air suspension that allows for more articulation than the standard system, along with a two - speed transfer case, an electronic rear limited - slip differential, and Jeep's Quadra - Drive II four - wheel - drive system.

I am more convinced than ever that policy, that will incur huge costs, needs to be based on sound economics and with the evidence documented and presented to engineering standards — i.e. researchers can go to goal for misrepresentation, dishonesty, negligence, incompetence.

I do not believe science should have a lower standard than engineering.

(7) Other means of protection, if the degree of protection afforded is equal to or greater than that afforded by any of the features set forth above and has been independently verified by an approved testing laboratory as meeting standards for those features established by the ASTM or the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).