Sentences with phrase «vehicle out of a foot»

It is great when you don't have to dig your vehicle out of a foot of snow to get to work in the morning, or sit in traffic for two hours on the way home.

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As the bubble rises, it picks up more and more of the balloon — there's still about 900 feet laid out on the tarp at this point — and begins to arc over the launch vehicle, a motorized crane that is holding the scientific payload about 10 feet off the ground.

Not sure on your particular vehicle, but most auto - adjusting drum brakes work when applying the foot brake (not parking brake) while the vehicle is in reverse, so whenever you back out of a parking space and hit the foot brake, the brakes adjust.

On a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee, I'm seeing the vehicle stall occasionally after I back out of my driveway (~ 40 feet) and shift into forward.

The electric seats also rotate outward 30 degrees when the doors are opened to make it easier to get in and out of the low - slung concept, which measures 17 feet long and 5 feet high, and the F 015's 26 - inch wheels are pushed to the far corners of the vehicle to maximize passenger space.

Available technology can alert you to unintentional lane drift, warn you of a vehicle in your blind spot, auto - maneuver you into (or out of) a tight parking spot, or open the available hands - free, foot - operated liftgate with just a gentle kick under the rear bumper.

The vehicle is powered by a sophisticated aluminum double - overhead - cam V - 6 engine that turns out 194 horsepower and 216 foot - pounds of torque.

Getting out of my snow - covered 200 - foot driveway is the easier part of this unconventional vehicle test.

It's powered by a 330 - kW plug - in hybrid powertrain with a heady 516 pound - feet of torque, which ought to be plenty of oomph for the vehicle to get out of its own way, all 16.5 feet of it.

Whilst it admittedly isn't the easiest vehicle to navigate tighter spots in (especially the larger versions, which can reach nearly 20 feet in length), the Ford F - 150's combination of good forward visibility, responsive controls and light steering all mean this truck isn't totally out of its depth in built - up areas.

Available features include an electronically adjustable suspension, adaptive cruise control, lane - keep assist, a hands - free tailgate that raises when the driver's foot is swiped underneath the rear bumper, and Lincoln's Active Park Assist, which guides the vehicle in and out of parallel parking spaces.

Available Rear Cross Traffic Alert uses radar to warn of approaching left or right cross traffic when the driver is backing out of a parking spot or driveway, and alerts the driver when a detected vehicle comes within 65 feet on either side.

The unit cranks out 425 horsepower and 406 pound - feet of torque, which, combined with the vehicle's reduced curb weight, provides impressive 0 - to - 60 mph acceleration times.

The five - passenger SRX's 61.1 cubic feet of maximum storage room is about average for its segment, but given that the vehicle is riding on older bones - and that deals are out there as dealers clean out inventory - the Cadillac is an appealing crossover option.

The vehicle also showcases Peugeot's new i - Cockpit technology, along with a hybrid drivetrain that cranks out 270 horsepower and 243 pound - feet of torque.

In this newly forming competitive market, getting the most space out of small utility vehicles is an art and science that wins customers and HR - V is positioned at the «Swiss Army Knife» of crossovers, achieving up to 58.8 cubic feet of cargo space when fully folded down.

Four - wheel disc brakes helped to reign in the Renegade from 60 - 0 mph in 129.2 feet, albeit with a fair amount of nose - over and rear end lift, possibly due to the front springs being out of spec, we're told, from what will be used on production vehicles.

Subaru engineers have carved out 35.5 cubic feet of it for the Outback's rear storage area, and when the vehicle's second - row seats are folded, total cargo space grows to 73.3 cubic feet.

When you're backing out of a parking space, available Rear Cross Traffic Alert technology uses radar to detect vehicles approaching from the right or left of your Encore SUV and alerts you if it detects one within 65 feet of either side of yours.

I'm a rangy six - feet and five - inches tall, and even with those trick running boards, getting in and out of a vehicle this high in the air can be a pain.

Standard safety equipment includes: • Advanced Multi-stage Front Air Bags provide nearly instantaneous occupant protection by matching air bag output to crash severity • Low - risk Deployment Air Bags are included for smaller and out - of - position occupants • Front Seat - mounted Side Air Bags deploy for enhanced thorax protection during a side impact • Supplemental Side Air Bag Inflatable Curtains with Extended Up Time deploy down to provide all three rows vehicle occupant head protection during side impact • Structural Driver and Front Passenger Knee Bolsters control occupant kinematics and reduce leg loads • Available Child Booster Seats for children 4 foot 9 inches (1.45 m) tall and between 48 lbs.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Cars that aren't maintained would be fairly efficiently eliminated from the road as a breakdown would entail falling 50 feet out of the sky, effectively destroying even the sturdiest and most rugged of vehicles.

Lift and carry heavy weights, such as loading or unloading mail trucks and delivery of heavy parcels as required; delivered mail and parcels on foot and / or by vehicle to the various offices and buildings of the institution and collects out - going mail to be weighed and stamped by the campus post office.