Sentences with phrase «traffic lanes so»

When ARL responded, State Police assisted by shutting down traffic lanes so the little guy could be brought to safety.

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The so - called «straddling bus,» the brainchild of designer Youzhou Song, would arc over two lanes of traffic, carrying up to 1200 passengers while leaving smaller vehicles free to drive underneath it.

According to various studies, staying in the closing lane until it ends and then take turns merging (the so - called «zipper merge») leads to a 15 percent increase in traffic flow and a 50 percent shorter line.

Autopilot includes several features like an automatic steering function that helps drivers steer within a lane, adaptive cruise control that maintains the car's speed in relation to surrounding traffic, and an auto lane change feature that is supposed to move the vehicle into an adjacent lane automatically when the turn signal is activated — but only when it's safe to do so.

We are expanding both lanes and we are going to put a new interchange at the Tema end, so that we are able to carry the amount of traffic the area attracts today.

The Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Committee is assisting the state in evaluating detours and other traffic alternatives during the project, but so far the only option under study is keeping open one lane of the two - lane bridge while the other undergoes rehabilitation, said Hal Morse, executive director of the agency.

Reichberg and the cooperating witness spent «well over $ 100,000» in gifts that served as bribes, Bharara said, so that they could hold sway with police — which they used to get friends and themselves out of traffic tickets, to arrange for police presence at religious sites and events, to get good seats at parades and other events, to get lights - and - sirens escorts to the airport, and even to close down a lane of the Lincoln Tunnel so a visiting businessman could breeze through without traffic.

Much like traffic signals at a railroad crossing, red lights embedded in the pavement will warn aircraft to stay clear of occupied lanes; so far the system has reduced runway incursions where it has been deployed.

In the late 1990s Redelmeier and Tibshirani began to wonder why it is that drivers change lanes so often, especially in congested traffic.

You get no interest on those funds, but you may get to glide through tollbooths — assuming, of course, that traffic officials have figured out how to assign E-ZPass lanes so that cars and trucks flow faster through them than through normal tollbooths.

Based on their observations, the duo describe three states of traffic on busy highways: «free flow,» in which traffic is light enough that drivers can freely change lanes and pass other cars; «synchronized flow,» in which the roads are so clogged that drivers can't pass, but can still move; and jams.

For instance, the computer model produced both the «shock waves» of congestion that travel backwards down motorways and create traffic jams where there is no obvious obstruction («When shock waves hit traffic», New Scientist, 25 June 1994), and the «slow fast - lane» effect, in which so many drivers move into the overtaking lane in frustration at the middle lane's lower speed that the middle lane becomes the fastest - moving.

The day the long anticipated Great American Eclipse arrived, so did over two thousand students, science buffs, and families, all streaming into the Green Bank Observatory with traffic lines backing up on both North - and Southbound lanes of Rt. 28/92.

I was merging onto a freeway in the Altima and the merge lane traffic didn't have much of anywhere to go due to heavy traffic in adjoining lanes, so I was in one of those situations where I either needed to brake hard and dawdle, waiting for traffic to clear, or else gun it.

Consider: Once, while cruising in fourth gear in this M2, we saw a chance to pass slower traffic on the two - lane PCH and opted not to downshift — the car got from just under 60 mph to triple - digit speeds so quickly we worried about those «speed limits enforced by radar» signs, but the M2 completed the pass in about half the expected distance.

Strangely, the Altima's steering is way overboosted at around - town speeds, so it's difficult to duck smoothly into holes in the urban traffic stream, but as you wheel the Altima down a winding two - lane, the steering tightens up considerably, and it's easy to carve an accurate line.

Its an Audi remember so it needs to pointlessly constantly swap lanes in very slow traffic even if all lanes are going the same speed as it gives the delusion of getting somewhere quicker.

The long list of innovative driver aids includes dynamic LED headlights, the so - called Magic Carpet Ride chassis featuring a camera - based damper adjustment system, an ever - more - intelligent brake assist with cross traffic recognition, and a new active cruise control that can even execute lane changes and passing maneuvers.

Among the most important of these features are rear privacy glass, rearview camera, rear parking sensors, vibrating safety alert, lane - departure, mitigation warning and prevention, air leveling heavy - duty air suspension system, bind - spot monitoring with rear cross traffic alert, underbody skid plates, special badging, hill descent control, adaptive magnetic suspension system and so on.

It is a hard trick as the Speed limit is 70 and most folks are truly running 75 MPH, so you have to have acceleration to pull away from the oncoming cars are you traverse 3 or 4 lanes of traffic.

As for driver assistance features, there are some if you really want to give away some control of a car like this, but you do need to option things like traffic sign recognition, active cruise control, and lane keep assist, but who really wants those in something as sporty as this — it's meant to be driven, so we suggest you drive it like you stole it instead.

The 2019 Hyundai Veloster just went on sale, so it has not yet been tested by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration or the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, but it does come with segment - first standard features like forward collision - avoidance assist and lane keep assist.

So, on top of the standard Cruise Control and Collision and Pedestrian Warning with City Collision Mitigation systems, buyers can choose options such as Active Cruise Control, the Driving Assistant Plus package — which includes the Steering and lane control assistant and crossing traffic warning system — and Parking Assistant Plus.

Further desirable spec includes; 10.2» Touch screen, Bluetooth telephone connectivity, Cruise control, Drive select with paddle shift and sport mode, EPAS, InControl secure, InControl Touch pro navigation, Lane keeping assist with lane departure warning, Autonomous emergency Braking and Driver condition monitor, Park assist - Parallel, perpendicular and parking exit, Parking distance sensors front and rear, Reverse traffic detection with blind spot monitor and closing vehicle sensor, Service interval indicator, Surround camera system with towing assist, Traffic sign recognition, Trip computer, Voice control system, 2 USB ports, Auxiliary Audio Jack, DAB Digital radio and so muctraffic detection with blind spot monitor and closing vehicle sensor, Service interval indicator, Surround camera system with towing assist, Traffic sign recognition, Trip computer, Voice control system, 2 USB ports, Auxiliary Audio Jack, DAB Digital radio and so mucTraffic sign recognition, Trip computer, Voice control system, 2 USB ports, Auxiliary Audio Jack, DAB Digital radio and so much more.

It was so good that a co-worker was able to make a very tight U-turn without having to cross into the far lane of on - coming traffic.

So, that means things like lane departure control that will nudge the car back into the lane, or adaptive cruise control that will change speeds to maintain the car's position in traffic.

Its width made it sit uncomfortably close to cars in adjoining lanes, so I found it necessary to assume a New York taxi driver attitude in traffic.

In doing so, the traffic - jam assist uses the lane markings and other vehicles on the road for orientation.

These roads have a tendency to get quite narrow in places — often funneling two - way traffic down to little more than a single lane with next - to - zero notice — so the Velar had moments where it felt quite large as a fjord explorer.

Even better, at those painfully slow traffic speeds, the car's lane - keeping assist basically becomes self - steering, so I could even take my hands off the wheel.

So you'll see the Assistance package (active lane assist, adaptive cruise control with Traffic Jam Assist, turn assist, collision avoidance assist, pre-sense front warning system, predictive efficiency assistant and high - beam assist), Matrix LED headlights and the Technik package (12.3 - inch Audi virtual cockpit and the head - up display) on the menu.

A number of times, I maxed the acceleration from a traffic light, so as to get ahead of traffic and make a necessary lane change.

The juiciest driver assistance hardware, like traffic sign recognition, adaptive cruise control, a 360 - degree camera view, and lane keeping assistance, is optional for the RS5, as is navigation with Audi's Virtual Cockpit, which places an elaborate map and gauge presentation front and center in the instrument panel, if you so desire.

The B&B is situated in the beautiful rolling hills of Red Hill at the centre of the many attractions of the Mornington Peninsula and is located at the end of a quiet country lane with no through traffic so privacy and tranquillity is assured.

Boulder Bike Path Goes Against the Flow of Traffic There are not too many people who would spend their time making videos about bike lanes, and even fewer people who can do so and make those videos interesting.

Or they because hybrid owners enjoy sailing past traffic in special HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes So many possible reasons

So find roads with slower traffic or with bike lanes, preferably fully separated ones.

When traffic conditions — or the complacency of riding in a bike lane — leave a rider vulnerable to the «door zone,» there is only so much responsibility the rider can take to avoid these encounters.

Cameras will also be mounted on the buses to photograph any vehicle blocking the BRT lane, so traffic tickets could be mailed to the violator.

It's very clever, in that the curved shape gets you up to speed by the time you merge into the moving traffic, a problem I had in Copenhagen recently where there were so many people in the bike lane than I had trouble getting in.

The Google system also is constantly updating the maps, so that if one car sees a pile of traffic cones for a closed lane, it can instantly update the maps so that cars following know what's up ahead.

For instance, cyclists may ride no more than two abreast in a lane of traffic, but they can not unnecessarily slow traffic down by doing so.

Turning across traffic lanes — Five of the twenty most congested roads in the United States are in the Chicago area, so it's tempting for drivers to cut corners to get where they are going.

-- The driver of a vehicle intending to turn left at any intersection shall approach the intersection in the extreme left - hand lane lawfully available to traffic moving in the direction of travel of such vehicle, and, after entering the intersection, the left turn shall be made so as to leave the intersection in a lane lawfully available to traffic moving in such direction upon the roadway being entered.

My roomate and self was backed over by handidart in November 10/11 and now they do not wish to pay me for pushing wheel chair to appointments, interviews, etc I am living with my roomate who has 1 missing limb and can not push a chair or take it down hill, you need to apply brakes, ICBC refuses to buy a scooter for her, she has her other fingers so she drops things due to careless handidart driver, back pain and three witnesses, the driver backed up ran over us and the wheel chair, we never came from the bus either, one lane of traffic, people including self was trying to get drivers attention, he was arguing with a client he was letting off bus.

Some people treat parking lots as though they are lawless areas where they can freely cut across multiple parking lanes to get where they want to go, and others may feel as though once they begin to back out of a space, they have full authority to do so, regardless of oncoming traffic.

I am two for two in traffic court — a seatbelt law violation many years ago, and an HOV lane violation a few years back — so I am not afraid of these people.

Try to adjust your speed so that you can move into the traffic when you reach the end of the acceleration lane.

Most of the major roads in Silver Spring are three, four, or five lanes, so be prepared for some interesting traffic if you're planning to drive around town.

He must increase or maintain his speed to merge safely, and many times (in heavy traffic especially) he may not be able to do so if the right lane is clogged with traffic.