Sentences with phrase «vehicle engineered for»

«I love the sound of the V8, but it can be loud, and you can't annoy people in your neighborhood,» said Steve Von Foerster, the former head of vehicle engineering for Ford Motor Company, who now leads Ford's user experience team in product development.

Edmunds Inside Line Kazutoshi Mizuno, the chief vehicle engineer for the 2009 Nissan GT - R, describes his car as a «new kind of supercar...

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Terranova gives the example of car manufacturers that need to marry proprietary engineering data with customer feedback in order to build accurate predictive models for vehicle maintenance problems.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

It is also an engineering and design source for GM's small vehicles and electric vehicles, as well as home to some of GM's top - ranked suppliers globally.

In another study of Kohn's, currently under review for publication, he gave engineering students blueprints of a simple vehicle that moved from point A to point B.

Waymo said engineer Anthony Levandowski downloaded more than 14,000 confidential files in December 2015 containing designs for autonomous vehicles before he went on to lead Uber's self - driving car unit in 2016.

The state - led program targets 10 strategic industries for replacing imports with Chinese - made products: advanced information technology, robotics, aircraft, shipbuilding and marine engineering, advanced rail equipment, new energy vehicles, electrical generation equipment, agricultural machinery, pharmaceuticals, and advanced materials.

For Krafcik, the integration of self - driving hardware and software is the trick, and that engineering challenge stands apart from what GM and Cruise have consistently said about the need to bring self - driving technology into the vehicle during the assembly process.

That's rapid progress and a testament to a critical early design and engineering decision: to pair Cruise's technology, optimized for complicated urban environments such as San Francisco, with GM's ability to develop and manufacture vehicles at a massive scale.

Among the people who've left or announced departures, either under pressure or for other reasons, are seven executives who had reported to Mr. Kalanick: SVP of Business Emil Michael, who is one of Mr. Kalanick's best friends and was the second-most powerful person at the company; ridesharing president Jeff Jones (ostensibly the No. 2 executive for Uber's core business); head of growth Ed Baker; engineering vice president Amit Singhal; communications and public policy chief Rachel Whetstone; head of finance Gautam Gupta; and Anthony Levandowski, head of Uber's autonomous vehicles program, who was fired amid theft allegations made against him by his former employer.

In addition to serving as our Chief Executive Officer since October 2008, Mr. Musk has contributed significantly and actively to us since our earliest days in April 2004 by recruiting executives and engineers, contributing to vehicle engineering and design, raising capital for us and bringing investors to us, and raising public awareness of Tesla.

Didi's designers and engineers envisage dedicated vehicles that will likely look very different to the cars used today for commuting and running errands, the people close to the company said.

As lead research engineer at Cohda Wireless (2004 - 2011), Dr Haley was a principal inventor of the technology that enables Cohda's world leading wireless equipment for vehicle - to - vehicle safety.

Otto, which is the brainchild of two senior self - driving car engineers who used to work for Google, builds kits that can turn existing transportation vehicles into autonomous trucks.

Engineers at the start - up evangelical missions agency, headquartered in the flat, rural expanses of northern Florida, roll their exotic vehicle from its hangar for critical tests.

Mike Coughlan, its director of vehicle design, departed for the Williams Formula 1 team in May, and engineer Steve Hallam, who also has a F1 background, departed for a job in Australian V8 Supercars.

It has been tested for side impact and has proven to be one of the best currently on the market This seat has been engineered and crash tested to exceed US standards set by FMVSS 213 (Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No 213).

Dr Shirvani, an Austrian and Iranian national, is an engineer by training and has earned her Ph.D. in Fuel and Vehicle Technologies from the University of Oxford and her Master's degree in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge.

Mining company Exton Cubic Group Limited is considering taking legal actions against the police and some authorities in the Ashanti Region for what it called the unlawful seizure of Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P) vehicles and mining equipment.

Growing the voluntary irtec Licensing Scheme that ensures the competence of commercial vehicle technicians is the aim of a new agreement between the IRTE (a professional sector of the Society of Operations Engineers (SOE)-RRB- and the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI), this is the government - recognised Sector Skills Council for the industry.

Whilst the aim of bringing together the various disparate strands of anti-discrimination legislation made some sense on grounds of clarity, it was feared that the Bill would become a vehicle for social engineering.

Engineer Shamaa told the media that the hospital has a mini market, a physiotherapy unit, two buildings for administration, a pharmacy, a parking lot for 114 vehicles among others.

The seizure of mining equipment belonging to Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P), which was undertaking some preparatory work in the forest for Exton Cubic, culminated in the mining company accusing the Ashanti Regional Minister of unlawfully impounding vehicles belonging to Engineers and Planners and detaining its officers.

«My best guess is that they have managed to put the ECU into an unencrypted test state, possibly by playing around with power - up sequences,» says Peter Highton, a senior engineer with Freescale Semiconductor in Aylesbury, UK, which makes ECU microchips for racing cars as well as ordinary vehicles.

His findings have the potential to revolutionise aeronautical engineering, especially in the development of micro air vehicles, small 15 - cm machines that are used for reconnaissance and need to be highly manoeuverable.

The Bush administration and automakers are touting fuel - cell vehicles as a nonpolluting technology, but engineers at the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment at MIT say the nonpolluting claim is not necessarily true.

Scale models are built and collected for many reasons including, in engineering, for testing the likely performance of a design object at an early stage without the expense of building a full - sized prototype; in remote control vehicles; and on TV and in the movie industry, for constructing objects or sets that can not be built in full size.

John Heywood, an engineer at MIT, suggests following parallel paths for developing cleaner vehicles.

In its work programs for 2014 and 2015, the commission has flagged specific topics — 16 % of all listed areas, including, for example, archeology, space medicine, and vehicle engineering — in which applicants for funding are required to describe how they will take sex and gender into account.

The outgoing three - shuttle fleet (Atlantis, Discovery, and Endeavour) is survived by several thousand laid - off scientists, engineers, mechanics, and other personnel who were responsible for the program's operation, as well as by a President George W. Bush — endorsed scheme to re-create the rocket - and - capsule - style vehicles of NASA's glory days with versions of shuttle hardware capable of reaching Mars.

The engineering solution may be for NeMO to use solar - electric propulsion to turn around and fly back to Earth hauling an entire separate spacecraft that carries the goods from Mars, he says, or it could tote a special - purpose entry vehicle that's topped off with Mars regolith and rock for drop - off here at home.

The prototype SUV should be ready for road testing in the next few months, and EPA engineers are already aiming to apply the technology to larger, industrial vehicles.

«Software can come in many different forms; it can simulate data, it can incorporate your algorithms, or it can be used for statistical analysis of your results — it's really a geomatics tool that can be used from end to end,» says Cannon, a professor of geomatics engineering at Calgary and an expert in the research and development of satellite navigation tools used by land, marine, and airborne vehicles.

Instead of moving ahead with a government - built Ares - 1 rocket with a capsule on top called the Orion, Augustine and Edward Crawley, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer and panel member, said that NASA instead might rope in private industry for a joint effort to build a less ambitious vehicle that could be ready by 2016 — rather than 2017 or later than Ares is likely to fly.

But in the absence of federal law regulating the use of autonomous vehicles and driver - assist technology, the U.S. government could simply stand back and allow companies to put more self - driving cars on public roads to collect the necessary safety data, says Alain Kornhauser, a transportation engineer and adviser for Princeton University's Autonomous Vehicle Engineering team.

Once Dragon was in place, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio monitored the Common Berthing Mechanism operations for first and second stage capture of the cargo ship, assuring that the vehicle was securely attached to the station with a hard mate.

As it turned out, one of MacCready's young engineers — Alec Brooks, a fanatic about human - powered vehicles — had already sketched plans for a car that could compete in Australia before shelving them for lack of resources to build it.

UTA also has started unmanned vehicle systems undergraduate and graduate certificates for students interested in careers in one of the nation's most exciting engineering fields.

Engineers have developed a micro air vehicle (MAV) that mimics the flight abilities of the swift, a passerine bird renowned for its aerial acrobatics.

«Chrysler has been anxious to get back into racing for some time,» says Francois Castaing, vice-president responsible for vehicle engineering.

While it may sound like something out of a James Bond film, engineers have been trying to design functional aerial - aquatic vehicles for decades with little success.

I was there for about four weeks and I spent one of those weeks with the a young group of engineers, and I went back to a couple of the sites I had visited on my first trip, including the Quds power plant which is north of Baghdad; it goes through some kind of dicey neighborhood, so the trip from the Green Zone to Quds is always a bit of hot charger; so we went up there in these Reva vehicles, these heavily armored South African Reva vehicles; and much to my amaze [ment], when I found that they had gotten some of their power plants started; they hadn't been able to run when I was there in 2005.

Dr. Bryan Glaz, chief scientist of ARL's Vehicle Technology Directorate said «an important motivation for this work is the desire to engineer new structures, starting from the nanoscale, to enable advanced rotorcraft concepts that have been proposed in the past, but were infeasible due to limitations in current composites.

Jones and Ph.D. advisor Geoff Hollinger, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in OSU's College of Engineering, have built a framework for the vehicles to plan energy - efficient trajectories through disturbances that are strong and uncertain, like ocean currents and wind fields.

Engineers in the Coordinated Robotics Lab at the University of California, San Diego, have developed new image processing techniques for rapid exploration and characterization of structural fires by small Segway - like robotic vehicles.

«That's true under even the most optimistic assumptions for clean technology advancements in vehicles and power plants,» said study lead author Sarang Supekar, a mechanical engineering postdoctoral fellow at U-M.

«The engineers at Marshall were developing a simple adaptive control law, and wanted to flight test it,» said Chris Miller, chief engineer for the Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control (LVAC) project at NASA Armstrong.

That is why, one and a half years ago, an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, mathematicians, electrical engineers and mechatronics engineers launched the project Afkar (a German abbreviation for «autonomous driving and intelligent chassis concept for an all - electric vehicle»).

NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missions.