Sentences with phrase «urban city car»

The concept will feature an fully - electric powertrain and we expect it to also feature autonomous driving tech, making it the perfect urban city car.

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The self - driving car market is getting crowded, even as regulations are still getting hammered out, the technology is being tweaked, and urban planners are yet uncertain how cities should be designed to accommodate the automobiles.

Maven is really three car - sharing services in one: a city - based service that rents GM vehicles by the hour through an app, another for urban apartment dwellers in Chicago and New York, and a peer - to - peer sharing service that started in Germany last year.

And Toyota has designed the i - ROAD, a small, electric concept car eventually meant to be deployed in urban fleets and shared, similar to the bike shares popping up in many cities.

Thanks to nuTonomy and MIT's partnership with Singapore, a country with dense urban areas has been highly receptive to driverless car technology, the comparatively small company could become the first to operate fully self - driving cars, known as «level four,» in a city commercially.

Some predict that self - driving cars will replace both traditional public transportation and conventional cars in cities, transforming urban transportation into a network of interconnected vehicles to effectively eliminate traffic.

Like Uber, Google is intent on developing self - driving cars for urban taxi use — reasoning that the slow speeds and relatively predictable environment of city streets that can be thoroughly, digitally mapped is the best and safest near - term purpose of autonomous vehicles.

Whether they're hauling parcels or children, cargo bikes are becoming a familiar sight in German cities as the nippy, clean alternative to cars and delivery vans — and shaking up urban transport in the process.

The masses of cars, buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and reckless pedestrians remind me of Mexico City and other urban explosions in the Third World, but then I notice a striking difference.

We have a side by side jogger that we use daily (Thule Urban Glide 2) and also the City Select with a second seat - but this will be easier for trips getting in / out of the car and where we want to conserve trunk space.

Much less is known about the impact of environmental and psychological exposures, but some potential threats include: • Air pollution: A small study of 60 newborns in New York City found that expectant mothers» exposure to combustion - related urban air pollution — emissions from cars, trucks, residential heating, power generation and tobacco smoking — may alter the structure of chromosomes in their fetuses.

17 Self - driving cars could improve highway flow by regulating distances between cars and ease urban congestion by automating the search for parking (which causes up to three - quarters of city traffic).

«We are already struggling with the number of cars we have in the streets of our cities; congestion, air pollution, road safety issues, health impacts from people driving all the time,» said Luc Nadal, technical director for urban development at the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy (ITDP).

and «Availability of Car Seats Offered by Taxi Companies in Urban U.S. Cities» at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2016 Meeting in Baltimore on May 1 and May 2 to shed light on how this legal exemption affects whether children are properly restrained while riding in taxis.

In São Paulo, a city with 7 million motor vehicles and the largest urban fleet of flexible - fuel cars, it would be feasible to run all buses on biofuel.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

These brightly colored bikes and their riders, often seen braving a gauntlet of impatient taxis, city buses and delivery trucks in dense urban areas, are nearly ubiquitous in these cities, granting commuters the freedom to leave their cars behind and get to their destination on their own schedule without having to walk far or take a bus or train.

City legislatures have said that creating more urban density would entice some drivers to take the subway instead of their cars, which would in turn greatly reduce the city's emission of greenhouse gasCity legislatures have said that creating more urban density would entice some drivers to take the subway instead of their cars, which would in turn greatly reduce the city's emission of greenhouse gascity's emission of greenhouse gasses.

James Howard Kunstler is the author of many books including (non-fiction) The Geography of Nowhere, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition, Home A driver caught this shocking footage as two cars and a van are sent flying across a road.

Another interesting program was Our Space, a fascinating exploration of the city - as - protagonist, whereby a swimming pool in Brooklyn (Pool Party, Beth Aala, 2010) disbanded car yards (Foreign Parts, Véréna Paravel, 2010) and Melbourne's own controversial Triangle Project (The Triangle Wars, Rosie Jones, 2011) were all sites for interrogating the politics of urban gentrification, economic inequity and community empowerment in the new millennium.

After all, hybrids make the most efficient use of their powertrains in urban settings, and the Prius c is an ideal city car.

He pointed to Ford Go Bikes, its urban bike - sharing program, and plans to field fully autonomous ride - hail cars on city streets by 2021 as examples of how the company is moving past its traditional role as an automaker.

For much of his later life he bet so heavily on the automobile's proliferation that in the 1930s he devised ambitious plans for the so - called Broadacre City, an urban concept centered on people owning cars.

Urban planners are redesigning cities and major metropolitan areas to be friendlier to pedestrians and bicyclists, amid ever - worsening traffic and as many millennials choose not to own cars, as Uber and Lyft and their ilk edge out traditional taxicabs.

This concept fits into Mercedes - Benz's larger vision for the future, which entails an entire «City of the Future 2030 +» that's meant to use autonomous cars to further urban infrastructure design.

As a city runabout, the Mirage reminds us of equally urban - oriented cars like the Fiat 500 and Scion iQ.

In a decade or so, you'll need an autonomous car, bicycle or public transportation to make your urban commute, saving the driver - operated automobile for transportation in rural areas and between cities, and for sport, and for annual celebrations of our culture such as this event.

International style meets urban attitude with Spark, the city car packing a brazen blend of style, street smarts and spunky performance.

As it's designed to be a city car, it's ability to take on uneven urban road surfaces is excellent.

Following an initial reveal in a series of sketches earlier this month, Audi has now provided Autoweek with detailed computer - enhanced photographs of its radical urban concepts — the compact two - seat city cars set to bow in September at the Frankfurt motor show.

The BMW i3 is a short little city car designed to thrive in densely packed urban environments.

The Urban Concept features 1 +1 seating, combining elements of a racing car, sports car and city car into one vehicle, the Germany auto maker says.

The next Fit is likely to get a city safety / pedestrian safety feature that will stop the car short, automatically, in urban situations, and it's possible the same electronics would provide forward collision warning (not stopping) at higher speeds, as well as lane departure warning.

It's easy to imagine the LF - SA's 136 inch (3,440 mm) length growing a bit, sitting as it does now 2.5 feet longer than a Smart car and 2 feet shorter than a Honda Fit, so there are potential versions for USA urban dwellers and city people in really cramped cities.

The German automaker has stepped up its green urban mobility offerings with the i3 city car earlier this year,

Gerry McGovern, Land Rover Design Director and Chief Creative Officer revealed the geographic target of the car when he said that the Range Rover Evoque Convertible «is perfectly suited to the urban surroundings of a city like London.»

«The new smart fortwo is quite simply the perfect city car, particularly for China's many urban areas.

This makes sense, since the large, heavy, tall SUV isn't an ideal urban car, and may spend less time in city traffic than other hybrids.

The ZX5, a five - door take on the Focus ZX3 hatchback, is essentially an economy car, a spirited urban scooter that gets about 25 miles per gallon in the city and nearly 34 mpg on the highway, according to government ratings.

Aston Martin have released a new elegant and distinct car to tailor fit the rapidity involved in urban mobility within the city.

Filling the car with fuel is another regular cost and Ford claims the Mondeo uses 8.5 L / 100 km averaged across city and urban driving, which puts it at the thirstier end of this pack.

More information about the 2014 Chevrolet Spark: The Spark exemplifies a new breed of minicar that are starting to become popular as more carmakers think that there is a future for this size car in American cities and urban centers.

Although not as popular as compact and mid-size options, very small cars such as those that were once exclusive to the streets of Tokyo and London have gradually made their way over to the United States, where they have attracted the interest of city - dwellers who need occasional transportation that's easy to park in an urban landscape.

Our top 10 city cars listed below includes urban roundabouts and compact cars that combine all the best attributes of a very interesting sector - it includes the funkiest, most fashionable, best to drive and most economical cars all in one list.

Our car's trip computer, which thankfully included an estimated range calculation, reported between 9mpg and 10mpg in mixed city and urban - highway driving.

But while the latter car is suited to taking on the toughest terrain on earth, the Urban Cruiser has been designed specifically for the cut and thrust of city driving.

That top speed is pretty low as modern cars go, but the Focus Electric's strength lies not in high - speed Autobahn blasts, but in the sort of peppy low RPM urban driving that is so tricky for small displacement city cars because of their lack of torque.

While most of the world is fine with an «urban» car (one that can putter about a city), the U.S. needs something with more range.

As a luxury commuter car that can slip easily and unobtrusively into the city, the Cygnet Concept is a highly intelligent solution to urban mobility.

Honda has revealed a small city car design study at the 2017 Frankfurt motor show called Urban EV Concept.