Sentences with phrase «urban driving where»

According to Häcker the ultimate performance of the two gearboxes is virtually identical, but the traditional auto option still holds an advantage in urban driving where it's smoother in operation.

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The chairman and ranking member, respectively, of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development subcommittee of the broader Senate appropriations committee want GAO to «examine the impact self - driving trucks will have on the two million Americans who currently work as truck drivers and the communities where they live,» according to a press release issued last week.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

More new sites will need to be allocated for educational use and increasing urban centre development and continuing changing demographics may also drive up pupil yields in areas where expansion opportunities are limited and new sites are rarely available.

But was it the legal intervention that drove local behavior, or the pervasive spread of expectations and more - demanding norms, seeping out to states that lagged behind (in this case, urban states where demand for young workers had long suppressed school enrollment)?

This analogy was driven home to me as I returned to the urban turnaround school where I lead.

Her drive and passion for effective early childhood development programs derives from growing up in urban areas where early learning was practically non-existent.

Leadership team members have taken ownership in embracing the district's vision (to provide a quality education driven by an unrelenting determination to graduate all students, preparing them for success in higher education) and mission (to transform San Antonio ISD into a national model of an urban school district where every child graduates and is educated and prepared to be a contributing member of the community) to align their work at the campus level.

Finally, a Save Battery mode forces the X5 to drive exclusively on gasoline power to retain the battery charge for later — such as when reaching an urban environment where fossil fuel - powered cars are banned.

As a guideline, brakes will wear out much faster if most of your driving is in a major urban area where stop - and - go is the rule, as opposed to those who spend most of the time in their vehicle on the open road, where they might not touch the brake pedal for an hour or more.

This was despite a large proportion of highway driving, where the CX - 9 is said to consume roughly 6.9 L / 100 km (extra urban cycle).

This will suit you if you're likely to exceed 10,000 miles a year and spend most of your time on motorways, driving at sustained speeds where the car doesn't experience much in the way of fatiguing start - stop urban driving.

At this year's Frankfurt motor show, where there was some serious metal including a rear - wheel drive Audi R8 and the new Renault Megane RS, the funky Honda Urban EV Concept was one of the cars that caught our eyes the most.

I spent about 15 minutes in the updated and upgraded Civic, driving a big urban loop in Torrance, California where Honda has its North American headquarters.

The two - motor system offers three driving modes: an «EV driving mode» for urban environments; a «hybrid driving mode» using electricity generated by the motor; and a «engine - connected driving mode» where the engine and tires are mechanically connected during high - speed cruising.

In urban driving you need to know where the four corners of the vehicle are, but because you sit up high with a commanding view that is not difficult.

One option you have is to retain electric drive for later use - if you're going to be driving on the motorway and then in town, for example, you can save the batteries for the urban section of your drive, where the energy will be better used.

So while it may not kick your butt too hard on the drag strip, it's still a fun car to thread through the urban jungle, where it demonstrated precise steering and fairly flat cornering, the latter feature making for much more comfortable long - distance drives.

«The increase reflects continuing strength in home sales among large urban markets that initially drove the spring rebound together with gains in markets where activity had previously struggled to gain traction.

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Just 10 miles south of the city — typically a 30 - 40 minute drive — you will find a place where urban sprawl gives way to an idyllic palm fringed setting.

Driving to and from work every day at a specified distance, especially in urban areas where common traffic routes are known, presents different risks than how a retiree who does not work any longer may use their vehicle.

Bikes always score higher than big ambulances when it comes to driving on small streets and beating heavy traffic in large urban areas, where it would be tough to move vehicles like ambulances through crowds.

It sounds impressive to the expert, but at the end of the day, most users will drive it on a congested urban road where traffic moves at not even a fourth of that speed.

Condominiums and apartments are driving the renaissance of urban areas across the U.S., as both a younger generation and empty nesters seek homes where...

Condominiums and apartments are driving the renaissance of urban areas across the U.S., as both a younger generation and empty nesters seek homes where they can live, work and play, say multifamily housing experts speaking at a recent National Association of Home Builders» conference.

Investors have been most active in areas where considerable urban sprawl is underway, including Barrie, Innisfil and Bradford, where progress has driven prime development land prices up to as $ 100,000 an acre in some pockets, the report says.

The report urges policy makers not to confuse rising home prices in the Toronto area and Vancouver, where urban land shortages are driving prices, and the Calgary area, which currently benefits from strong job creation, with the slowdown that is evident in other communities across the country.