The sales agent made me feel like we were playing in the cars rather
than test driving them.
Nothing does that better
than a test drive.
Nothing quite tells you about a used vehicle
than a test drive so check this one out!
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.
«In order to move autonomous
driving toward reality,
testing requires more cars, more drivers, and more day - to - day miles traveled
than any combination of research facilities could support.»
In late May, when Edward Yruma of Keybanc Capital Markets downgraded the stock, his reservations had more to do with its shares already being priced for perfection at a time when its strategy seemed to be shifting toward
testing new products and markets more
than driving sales in its yogawear stronghold.
The black leather seats in our
test car felt soft to the touch and offered more
than adequate bolstering for both leisurely jaunts down the highway and dynamic
drives on twisty country roads.
While Google is not any entrepreneur's rival of choice, Vogt is right that it has made his task easier in one regard: The tech behemoth has proved the concept works, having famously
tested a fleet of self -
driving Toyota Prius cars and Lexus RX luxury crossovers while mapping every inch of northern California and racking up more
than 700,000 miles of robotic
driving.
Most of the common analyses and
tests done by Web companies treat are centered on the notion of «visitors» to their website (transactional, one time relationship with consumers, typically
driven by traffic coming from search engines) rather
than «users» of their service (longer term relationship, typically involves creating a user account with the Web service).
To date, Waymo and its predecessor have logged more
than 2.5 million miles
testing autonomous -
drive technology.
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.
«It's honestly more like
driving a Porsche Boxster
than a typical luxury sedan,» Jake Fisher, director of auto
testing at Consumer Reports, said in a phone interview.
Another
test -
driven tip from Tracy Wald: If a customer owes you for more
than one invoice, you should start by looking to collect on only the oldest invoice.
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.
You
test promotion of that blog post via a paid Facebook ad, and find that the CPC is lower
than your typical paid expenditures, and is
driving 40 % more site traffic
than those typical expenditures.
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The Phoenix area was added a year ago, and quickly became the company's main
testing ground, with 400 employees and more
than 150 autonomous cars
driving local roads because of «favorable regulatory environment, favorable weather conditions,» according to a company document.
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.
But I join Mr. Forstmann in believing that the «accountability» mechanism that should be attached to those standards and
test results is a parent «
driven marketplace rather
than state «imposed rewards and sanctions.
However, seeing that my recent pattern of caring about work over marriage had produced little more
than paying bills and a miserable wife, I figured giving the philosophy a
test drive couldn't hurt.
There is no
test other
than walkng or
driving to my OBGyn's office when the periods happen.
2012 definitely saw us doing more car travel
than ever before — we
tested the waters with our trip across Alberta, and capped off the year with a
drive to Florida.
I suggest doing a
test drive for NO LESS
than 10 minutes at your local store.
Driving tests are to be made more difficult to ensure young people are equipped with the right attitude to driving, rather than just the basic
Driving tests are to be made more difficult to ensure young people are equipped with the right attitude to
driving, rather than just the basic
driving, rather
than just the basic skills.
Young children in Western New York suffer from the highest rate of lead poisoning in the upstate region — a rate that's more
than three times higher
than that in Flint, Mich., where a cost -
driven switch to an alternate water system left 4 percent of children
tested with signs of lead exposure.
Driven by anger at education reforms included in this year's state budget, there's a movement afoot in Albany to encourage parents to keep their children home from school, rather
than sit for state
tests.
A General Motors political action committee donated more
than $ 17,000 to Gov. Cuomo three months before he announced the company would be the first to
test self -
driving cars in the state, campaign finance records show.
In September 2015 it emerged that Volkswagen had fitted software to around 11 million of its diesel cars worldwide which caused them to release fewer smog - causing pollutants during
tests than in real - world
driving conditions.
Both trundled on for much longer
than the 90 days of their primary mission, and when Opportunity was on its extended run, Verma's robotics expertise and experience with field
testing rovers won her the chance to
drive it.
Engel declined to say how many pre-orders the company has received in China for the i3 since the model was unveiled at the Beijing auto show last month, but said more
than 28,000 people have requested a
test drive in a sign of public interest.
But in Schultz's laboratory
tests, exposed males were less interested
than unexposed controls in trying to
drive off artificial «bait» minnows placed near their nests.
Participants also reported that Glass was easier to use and interfered less with
driving than did the other devices
tested.
He makes a convincing case for incorporating valuable but less easily measured attributes into our view of intelligence, such as the persistence that can propel
driven students to higher
test scores
than their less committed peers and the creativity demonstrated by individuals more in tune with intuition
than intellect.
And what better way to tick this box
than by
test -
driving your future career?
In the same
tests, the car was 11 per cent more fuel efficient
than a control car in city
driving and 8 per cent more efficient in motorway
driving.
This 21st century research is based on different assumptions
than the toxicological assumptions that
drove the EPA
test designs.
In people with Williams syndrome, which is characterized by a strong
drive for social interaction, she says, one sees an opposite electrical brain response to similar linguistic
tests than that seen in people with autism.
For instance, the vehicle was measured as being almost 300 kilograms heavier
than the type
test regulations allow for — not out of spite, but because the car
drives around the streets at this weight.
Therefore, the effects of increased neural
drive on improved maximum strength will probably not transfer to faster COD times by as much as they will to
tests of maximum strength, although there will likely be a more substantial cross-over effect
than for linear sprinting.
As I mentioned in the video I'm not a cream type of person, due to my tendency to get oily skin, but after a few
test drives for the video I actually like it more
than other products I was used to.
I'm craving nothing more
than to be able to wear jeans 24/7 but it's still a little too hot in Dallas to do so... I have however been able to
test drive the two latest pairs of Rockstar mid-rise jeans I recently picked up from Old Navy and am obsessed (obsessed) with both the black and light - gray washes.
I would
test drive some looks — I think a structured blazer might help the most (rather
than a drapey sweater).
That goal, which doubles as Diaz's own insistently self - deprecating joke about her flat chest,
drives Elizabeth to do all sorts of disreputable things, like steal proceeds from a school car wash (where she reels in customers via a skimpy Daisy Dukes outfit) and compete for a salary bonus by drugging a state official (Thomas Lennon) and filching a
test so that her class will perform better
than all others, and especially that of ultra-cheery rival Amy (Lucy Punch).
Yet the benefits of data -
driven instruction go deeper
than test scores.
It's probably time for education reformers and policymakers to admit that just pushing harder on
test -
driven accountability as the primary tool for changing our creaky old public school system is apt to yield more backlash
than accomplishment
Collective human judgment informed by reliable evidence is a much better way to assess teaching and learning in schools
than data -
driven judgment based on high - stakes standardized
tests.
Students are
tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher -
driven variation in reading achievement
than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.