Sentences with phrase «use of all wheel drive»

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The three - wheeled car weighs about 1,200 pounds and features a single - cylinder 7 - hp engine that uses either diesel or ethanol and networked batteries to drive two electric motors, giving it the equivalent of 16 hp and a max speed of about 70 mph.

The cars, which are equipped with the same software used in Google's previous generation of self - driving Lexus vehicles, are designed to work without a steering wheel or pedals.

«Riders will be able to use a Waymo app to hail one of our fully driving, self - driving cars without a driver at the wheel,» she said.

However using the drunk driver example / metaphor, I have no problem with anyone getting behind the wheel of a car too inebriated to drive facing consequences with restrictions on their licence or even jail time.

Guide her, protect her when crossing the street, stepping onto boats, swimming in the ocean, swimming in pools, walking near pools, standing on the subway platform, crossing 86th Street, stepping off of boats, using mall restrooms, getting on and off escalators, driving on country roads while arguing, leaning on large windows, walking in parking lots, riding Ferris wheels, roller - coasters, log flumes, or anything called «Hell Drop,» «Tower of Torture,» or «The Death Spiral Rock «N Zero G Roll featuring Aerosmith,» and standing on any kind of balcony ever, anywhere, at any age.

Roads Minister Andrew Jones insisted that Britain has some of the safest roads in the world and added: «We have tightened the laws on drug driving and are looking at increasing penalties for tackling mobile phone use at the wheel.»

Adhar is an aspiring paleontologist, but learning about the components of a four - wheeled robot as he drove it around the event room floor using a remote device that he cited as one of the highlights of his day.

Earlier this year a group of researchers proved that a hacker could conceivably use a cell phone to unlock a car's doors and start its engine remotely, then get behind the wheel and drive away.

After farming, the second largest cause of damage was recreational activities, including motorbike scrambling, water sports and off - road use of four - wheel - drive vehicles.

The rover's drives now use steering motors on only the rear wheels, following a temporary jam of the left - front wheel's steering actuator this month.

Research led by Hannah Foy, a 2nd year PhD student in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, is looking at whether future interventions could prioritise the use of driving simulators to make us safer at the wheel and our roads a safer place to be.

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For some «custodian engineers» in the nation's largest school district, the «perks» include being allowed to buy, and eventually keep for personal use, four - wheel - drive vehicles with the help of a partial subsidy from the district.

It uses three electric motors, with one at the front axle and two at the rear, for a kind of electro - Quattro all - wheel drive.

Alfa Romeo's version of the car — ostensibly called the Alfa Romeo Spider, a name long tied to sporty, spritely rear - wheel drive roadsters until it was applied to a front - wheel drive car in 1995 — won't necessarily use the same engines as its Mazda sibling.

You don't jump on the throttle early in the corner because the big rear tyres will push the nose wider still, so you wait until you're past the apex, then you begin straightening the wheel and feeding in the power, using the traction of the rear - biased four - wheel drive to ride the furiously ignited torque.

Arguably our favorite exercise involved circling the skidpad with no hands on the steering wheel, controlling the trajectory of the rear - drive 86 using only the throttle, a lesson in how power application influences a car's line and a precursor to some serious attempts at drifting — attempts that varied from semi-impressive to hilariously inept and had our entire crew in stitches as we observed each other's runs.

Power is transferred to a new fully - electronic four - wheel - drive system via a new seven - speed dual - clutch automatic transmission, and performance can be adjusted using one of three selectable driving modes.

We expect the showroom - ready Infiniti Q60 to use the same powertrain as its four - door Q50 sibling, a 3.7 - liter V - 6 rated for 328 hp and 269 lb - ft of torque, with a seven - speed automatic transmission and either rear - or all - wheel drive.

A friend of mine bought a used, rear - wheel drive Mercedes S - Class from an out - of - state dealer a few years ago.

With a twin - turbo V - 6 cranking out 396 hp and 384 lb - ft of torque, a rear - biased all - wheel - drive system, and a quick - shifting nine - speed transmission, the E 43 offered more performance than most people would use, as well as surprisingly agile handling.

Ford attributes this in part to a standard torque - vectoring feature that uses the traction control to brake the inside wheel when accelerating out of a turn, allowing the power to drive the outside wheel and maintain a tighter line.

The model is expected to be based on a version of the platform using for the Giulia sedan, with both rear - and all - wheel - drive layouts planned.

Leave the «box in Drive and the shifts are intuitive and quick to shift to meet your needs, but it's when you opt to use the pair of metal look paddles attached to the back of the steering wheel that you can really get stuck in to the GTS's performance.

All - wheel - drive traction and a firm but comfortable suspension should keep you happy on the highway, where the A7 covers vast stretches of interstate in supreme comfort, and on winding roads, where all - wheel drive helps it «shine on slimy, slick, twisty bits,» according to Drinnon, who used the A7 as a support vehicle for the California Mille last spring.

Both drivelines make use of a six - speed automatic, but front - drive 2014 MDXs should be rated at 20/28 mpg (city / highway), while the all - wheel drive model attains 18/27 mpg.

The new Lamborghini, codenamed PL724, will reportedly be slightly longer and wider than the current Gallardo (pictured), and extensive use of aluminum and carbon fiber will trim its weight, perhaps putting it below 2900 pounds for rear - wheel - drive variants.

The all - wheel - drive system uses twin electronically controlled clutch packs on each side of the rear drive unit to manage the front - rear split as well as side - to - side torque vectoring on the rear axle.

Where the Porsche uses a four - wheel drive system to augment the driving experience, though, the Audi is flat and lifeless because of it.

That car used the first iteration of Audi's Quattro all - wheel - drive system and housed a 160 - hp turbo five - cylinder under its long hood.

The concept makes use of four electric motors, each one driving a wheel.

All versions of the 2014 Nissan Rogue use a 170 - hp, 2.5 - liter inline - four engine and continuously variable transmission, with both front - and all - wheel drive available.

While the IS uses six - cylinder engines driving the rear (or all four) wheels, the NX has the typical crossover powertrain of a transversely mounted four - cylinder engine with front - or all - wheel drive, just like the RAV4.

Thanks to more extensive use of aluminum, the rear - drive 2016 XF is 132 pounds lighter than the V - 6 2015, and with an all - wheel - drive system that's a claimed 16 percent lighter, that version of the 2016 is down an impressive 265 pounds.

Toyota's new hybrid system for rear - wheel - drive vehicles promises improved fuel economy at high speeds, allowing for intermittent use of the engine at such speeds.

Lamborghini used a mix of fiberglass and aluminum for the body, adding a four - wheel - drive system and three self - locking differentials, as well as a full luxury interior.

The same 292 - horsepower, 280 pound - foot turbocharged 2.0 - liter four - cylinder powers the S3 and the Golf R, and both use a Haldex all - wheel drive system, though the S3's version pushes a bit more of the torque rearward in dynamic driving with the 2017 upgrades.

It will be offered exclusively with the same nine - speed automatic transmission used in the C300 sedan and coupe, with a choice of rear - wheel drive or 4Matic all - wheel drive.

Like other recent 43 - badged models, the GLC 43 uses a 3 - litre, V6 biturbo petrol engine and drives all four wheels through Mercedes» 4Matic all - wheel drive system, with 69 per cent of the torque directed to the rear axle.

Much of Holden's model range is already imported, excluding the Holden Commodore, Caprice, and Ute vehicles that all use an Australian - built rear - wheel - drive platform.

The new all - wheel - drive unit uses an electronically controlled twin - clutch system fitted to the rear axle, which can divert up to 70 percent of available torque to the rear wheels.

We had a couple of the same limited laps in an RLX hybrid with Super-Handling All - Wheel Drive, which uses an electric motor to power the rear wheels and combines with the 3.5 - liter V - 6 and seven - speed dual - clutch transmission to provide 370 horsepower.

During a fierce slush storm, we cruised along in all - wheel - drive mode, which we switched into using a handy rotary knob near the center armrest, without so much as a whiff of anxiety.

The U.S. did get an all - wheel - drive version of the Protegé, but it lacked the turbocharged powerplant, using a naturally aspirated 1.8 - liter engine instead.

Safety options include Active Driving Assistant, which encompasses lane departure warning that vibrates the steering wheel when you stray outside of lane lines; frontal collision warning that can brake the car at speeds under 10 mph and pre-load the brakes at higher speeds; and pedestrian warning that uses audible and visual warnings to alert the driver of pedestrians and pre-loads the brakes.

The LC 500 will be the first vehicle to be produced using Lexus» new rear - wheel - drive platform and uses a combination of high strength steel and aluminium, as well as an optional carbon fibre roof.

Drive was transmitted the rear wheels via six - speed manual gearbox, slick use of which could help you launch the GT4 from 0 to 62mph in 4.4 seconds and hit a 183mph top speed.

Don't get us wrong, the notion of a 600bhp all - wheel drive XE with touring car - style bodywork and liberal use of carbonfibre is extremely tempting, but a rival for the BMW M3 and Mercedes - AMG C 63 S would be more relevant — Project 8 has a huge price tag and a limited production run.

It's the only car of the trio that boasts all - wheel drive (Mercedes offers it on the S63 AMG but not the comfort - oriented S600), which means it can more frequently make use of the 590 lb - ft of torque from its sonorous and eager - to - rev 6.0 - liter W - 12.

A 174bhp version of this 2.0 - litre unit is matched to four - wheel drive (a Haldex clutch linking the transverse powertrain to the rear axle as needed), while two tunes of 2.0 - litre TFSI petrol engine also use 4WD.