Sentences with phrase «traffic than the road»

Though the system works brilliantly, it did have a propensity for hugging dashed road lines — tending to waver nearer oncoming traffic than the road shoulder.

Not exact matches

Of the more than 600,000 global road traffic deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's Global Road Safety Progroad traffic deaths that occur each year, China's comprise more than a third, with 220,000, according to Bloomberg's Global Road Safety ProgRoad Safety Program.

Because the Deep Web is best known as the home of Silk Road, a notorious online service similar to eBay — if that website trafficked in handguns, ecstasy pills and thugs, rather than vintage timepieces and Alf dolls.

City streets are much more difficult to navigate for autonomous systems (and humans) than highway roads, because the cars have to navigate around other cars, understand traffic signals and watch for pedestrians or other unexpected interferences.

Fees on the state's more than 700 miles of toll roads have been suspended to allow traffic to flow more freely.

Daylight Saving Time marks the beginning of reduced visibility on the roads and increased exposure to traffic safety risks due to the days getting darker earlier, so what better time to talk about how to feel more comfortable when night driving than now?

, and her aura was not one which installed colempte confidence in me of her competence.Eventually, we reached a stage where the lead midwife announced that upon another examination (that we had been told was advisable due to the amount of time my partner had been in labour) that she would be calling in an ambulance as the baby was apparently taking longer to recover it «s heart rate between contractions than it had been previously which was a concern, and that my partner needed to be dealt with in hospital.The reassurance of the surroundings of home was soon replaced by a period of comparative chaos and strange faces which then developed into me travelling with my now scared and distressed partner in a speeding ambulance across a busy city road system amidst late afternoon traffic.

They argue that more roads will lead to more cars, causing even more traffic jams than before.

This represents a higher annual mortality rate (predominantly among older people) than that for all road traffic accidents in Great Britain.

One road that has remained an eye sore in Lekki Phase one is Grace Anjous street.The street is less than 100 meters away from the recently commissioned cable bridge.The street provides a feeder option for the easement of traffic on the admiralty corridor.It is most imperative and expedient to include this important road in the list of roads earmarked for construction.

No fewer than 254 people have died in various traffic accidents in Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa States in the first quarter of 2016, the Federal Road safety Corps said on Saturday.

Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Osita Chidoka says no fewer than 1.3 million people die annually in road traffic crashes worldwidRoad Safety Corps (FRSC), Mr Osita Chidoka says no fewer than 1.3 million people die annually in road traffic crashes worldwidroad traffic crashes worldwide...

And we're managing road traffic more effectively than ever before.

No fewer than 39 motorists were tried and convicted for various traffic offences by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Mobile Court on Thursday in Ota, Ogun.

When applied to the road networks in actual cities, Transims did better than traditional models at predicting traffic jams and local pollution levels — one reason why Transims - inspired agent - based models are now a standard tool in transportation planning.

Deaths were 4 % more common among adults and the elderly in areas with daytime road traffic noise of more than 60dB compared to areas with less than 55dB.

The nearly 33,000 road deaths and more than 3.9 million injuries in 2010 cost Americans $ 871 billion in economic loss and societal harm, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

It's difficult to pinpoint how many land animals are killed by vehicular traffic annually — no single entity keeps track — but over a 17 - month period, one study documented more than 8,000 fatalities along a 1.1 - mile stretch of road in Indiana.

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 1 million people are killed in road traffic accidents each year.

McHenry estimates that road trains would more than triple highway traffic flow.

«Zurich, for example, has stronger planning legislation, much higher levels of public transportation and much lower levels of road traffic than Montreal and Quebec,» she says.

When they cross-referenced that time against New Jersey traffic data for the roads crossing their study area, they found that snakes were virtually guaranteed to encounter several cars during any road crossing — anywhere from 3 - 4 cars crossing the least - used road, to more than 30 cars per two - minutes on New Jersey's Route 72 during the busy summer season.

The fuel cell version of the Equinox outweighs its standard cousin by more than 500 pounds (225 kilograms) thanks to its heavy nickel — metal hydride battery pack, GM says, but press down on the accelerator and the Equinox can run with the rest of the road traffic.

These items provide tantalizing hints of commercial traffic on a Silk Road predating by two millennia the trading route that eventually linked China to Europe in the early centuries A.D. Hiebert likens the Oxus civilization to Polynesia — a scattered but common culture held together by camels rather than canoes.

The complete system, called Metro, will be an integrated network of underground and surface railways, shuttle buses and an improved freeway (motorway) system with new routes, high - technology aids to improve traffic flow, some toll roads, and «car pool» lanes reserved for vehicles carrying more than one person.

The aircraft and road traffic noise exposure levels estimated for their postcodes at that time — less than 50 decibels to more than 60 dB — were used for the current study in 2013.

Only around one in 10 (11 %) were exposed to significant road traffic noise of more than 55 dB.

Switching from a congested (Internet) highway to a traffic - free country road could save time, but possibly less than expected.

I have done a lot of intensive and hands on research about road traffic crashes - more than 40 years of it to be exact.

Frontier and Rickabaugh use an extended analogy of a traffic safety director trying (ineffectively) various reforms to improve road safety statistics to demonstrate how many reform efforts only maintain the status quo or bring transactional change (in which incentives drive change), rather than the transformational change many schools need.

It is useful where the traffic is slow, like the ring road in Beijing where the average speed is now slower than it was when bicycles were the primary transportation device.

On the road seen in amongst other traffic the GT doesn't look overly large and hides its bulk well, the less intimidating kidney grilles (they're more akin to the 5 - series than the 7 - series» overly large nostils) help here.

Power is strong enough to make quick work of passing slower traffic, even heading uphill, and the trunk is large enough to swallow more than enough luggage for a weekend road trip — or race excursion.

The road was straight, there was no other traffic and, taking advantage of this, they used their momentum to cruise quickly and cleanly past me and onwards to the things in their day that were more pressing than those in mine.

Traffic on Route 166 thicker than normal thanks to the onslaught of semi-trucks on the two - lane road that, normally, would also have taken the 101.

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LOS ANGELES, California — With more than 200 miles of driving planned for a recent weekend, I knew with near - perfect surety that I would encounter nearly every type of road and driving situation as, contrary to popular belief, not every stretch of road in Southern California is choked with traffic.

SynchroRev Match made the Z a bit easier to live with when grinding through rush - hour traffic, but the limited cargo space of the rear hatch, the super-stiff ride, and the limited rear visibility conspire to make this coupe a less - than - ideal daily driver and possibly the worst road trip car you could choose.

The Matrix headlamps offer better illumination than almost everything else on the road and yet without troubling the oncoming traffic.

I like driving a vehicle that's higher off the road than a typical car, but I also appreciate that the vehicle is small enough to maneuver downtown, zig through traffic, and parallel park with ease.

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The EPA says the Civic Si will get 32 mpg in combined driving, and I averaged 31.3 mpg on my test loop despite heavier traffic than usual on the city and freeway portions, and plenty of high - revving hijinks on back roads.

Having achieved major advances in the field of occupant protection, Mercedes ‑ Benz is focussing more than ever on preventing traffic accidents and reducing accident severity as part of its commitment to road safety.

Realistic tests confirm that motorists who use Adaptive Highbeam Assist are safer on the road in the dark: dummies placed at the side of the road to simulate pedestrians were detected from a distance of around 260 metres — around 150 metres earlier than is the case when conventional low beam is used — despite the presence of oncoming traffic.

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.

Other than that, the maps have good resolution, and traffic is very well integrated, alerting you to incidents on the road ahead even if you don't have a route programmed.

The lightly weighted steering works well in traffic and although ride comfort is on par with a Mazda3 or Volkswagen Golf, it's firmer than it used to be, so you will feel more bumps in the road.

The «Dynamic Route Guidance» navigation would often send me into a surface road traffic jam while trying to avoid highway congestion, but it's no worse than most OEM traffic software.

Granted, on the more open stretches of road we mentioned earlier, you will need to work it hard in order to get it up to speed (which isn't something you can say to the same extent about a 1.0 - liter turbocharged Ford Fiesta), but the outputs are more than fine for pootling about traffic in.

Which gives an extra feature to move around off road and also hatch back model, which is shorter than a normal car, gives a very good feature to move around in traffic and tight places.