Ford announced expanded apps and offerings for their sync system, and a tripling of their autonomous
vehicle test fleet to make it the industry's largest.
This year, the auto maker plans to triple its autonomous
vehicle test fleet — bringing the number to about 30 self - driving Fusion Hybrid sedans for testing on roads in California, Arizona and Michigan.
Not exact matches
Lyft announced a partnership earlier this year with GM to
test a
fleet of self - driving
vehicles on public roads.
Aurora confirmed to Fortune that it has been
testing its autonomous
vehicles on private courses and is now ramping up its
test fleet operations on public roads in California, including in Palo Alto, Calif..
Many people assume Zoox, Google, and Uber (which revealed its own driverless
test car in May) will eventually launch their own urban
fleets of on - demand autonomous
vehicles.
By year - end the company expects to have the largest
fleet of autonomous
test vehicles of any automaker.
Ford is also trying to strike a balance between evolution, with its
vehicle lineup's semiautonomous features, and revolution, with its
test fleet of driverless cars.
The company needs time to build up its
fleet from the two cars it has now and go through the various regulatory requirements such as getting the
vehicles smog
tested and registered, the spokeswoman added.
General Motor's Cruise division has been
testing its own
fleet of self - driving electric
vehicles, while Tesla has been rolling out its Autopilot semi-self-driving technology with real - world owners.
While Tesla went the way of adding sensors to all its production
vehicles to gather data, most other automakers and tech companies are doing it through captive
test fleets, which all vary in sizes.
Indian ride - hailing firm Ola's pilot project to
test a
fleet of electric
vehicles in Nagpur was expected to herald a coming...
According to the CEO, the autonomous I - PACE
fleet is set to start
testing sometime later this year, with Waymo deploying as many as 20,000 of the
vehicles within two years of production.
The
vehicles will join Google's existing
fleet of 70
test cars — Lexus SUVs and its tiny handmade ones.
«As we continue to
test drive our
fleet of
vehicles in greater Phoenix, we're taking all the steps necessary to launch our commercial service this year,» a Waymo spokesman said in an emailed statement.
Test fleets of the alternatively fueled
vehicles have run into a host of difficulties, but continue to move forward
The report explains that existing
test fleets of self - driving
vehicles would take tens or even hundreds of years to drive the number of miles necessary for performing a statistically significant safety comparison.
The first
vehicle to roll off the line was an all - new 9 - 5 sedan destined for the
test fleet.
GM says its 119 -
vehicle hydrogen
test fleet has racked up 3.1 million miles on fuel cell power.
We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine
fleet of Four Seasons
test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Tire Rack, ou
Historically, transit has been a
test - bed for clean
vehicle technologies, allowing new technologies the chance to mature before they are widely adopted and introduced to heavy - duty commercial
fleets.
But its design came even more to the fore, looking like one of the more expensive cars in our multimillion dollar
fleet of
test vehicles, despite its sub - $ 50,000 starting price.
A
fleet of zero - emissions
vehicles, most likely Nissan Leafs, will serve as the
test bed for the technology, and will allow for a demonstration of remotely controlled transportation, similar to the method in which NASA controls the planetary rovers remotely from a mission control center.
Our big flower garden needed sprucing up with fall flowering plants, because the summer flowers were dying off, and the Buick Enclave was the best
vehicle in the
test fleet for the huge chrysanthemum buy at the local greenhouse.
It isn't uncommon for Four Seasons
test vehicles to begin their stay in the Automobile Magazine
fleet with lots of enthusiasm and unrelenting demand.
These partnerships were created in order to
test autonomous
vehicles because Lyft intends to incorporate them into their
vehicle fleet and use them as part of their ride - hailing business.
We received our first serious snow dump in Ann Arbor last week, but the Automobile Magazine
fleet of Four Seasons
test vehicles was ready for the cold, since we had fitted each car with a set of winter tires from various manufacturers well before Thanksgiving with the assistance of the Tire Rack, our official wheel and tire partner.
The Automobile Magazine
test fleet has been blessed with a variety of diesel
vehicles lately.
This current
fleet of fuel cell
vehicles, so - called Generation 4 cars, will continue running around in various
test fleets for another three years.
Available for lease in selected countries, it was followed by the B - Class F - Cell, of which some 200 examples were produced between 2011 and 2017 in what is described as the largest
fleet of hydrogen fuel - cell
vehicles yet established for
testing purposes.
Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is investing heavily in the future of connected and autonomous
vehicle technology and has now announced its plans for real - world
fleet tests in the UK.
To expand our
testing outside of the controlled environment of a proving ground, we also took our
fleet of four wheelers to the popular Mounds Off - Road
Vehicle Area in Mt. Morris, Michigan.
Ford said it is adding 20 fully autonomous Fusion Hybrid
test cars to the company's autonomous
fleet, making about 30
vehicles now wheeling around in California, Arizona and Michigan.
A whole
fleet of development
vehicles are being subjected to twelve months of gruelling
tests, covering millions of miles between them to ensure that the Evoque achieves the same standards of ruggedness and all - terrain versatility as every Range Rover before them.
Editor's note: Today's Drive has become Short Stint, but the information is still the same — a brief impression of a
vehicle that's been in our
test fleet.
JLR's InMotion ventures will get an opportunity for developing and
testing its mobility services, including autonomous
vehicles and the company plans to provide drivers with a
fleet of Jaguar and Land Rover
vehicles.
The vast majority of
vehicles that automotive journalists
test come from dedicated
fleets maintained by the manufacturers, but once in a while, a new
vehicle never makes it into that
fleet.
The year is in full swing and we've got a full
fleet of new
vehicles to
test.
Volvo Car Corporation plans low - scale production of a
fleet of the
vehicle for field
testing with customers.
The Renault Zoe EV (electric
vehicle) has been spied undergoing
test runs as a part of Bengaluru - based electric cab aggregator Lithium Urban Technologies»
fleet.
Honda has been developing and deploying fuel cell
vehicle technology for nearly two decades through extensive real - world
testing and customer deployments, including the world's first government
fleet customers and first - ever retail consumer leasing program.
Later this year, Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans will be used for Google's
testing and will double Google's current
fleet of
test vehicles.
Clariant, a leading global specialty chemicals company, together with Mercedes - Benz and Haltermann Carless, a well - established HCS Group brand,
tested the use of sustainable cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues in a
fleet test with Mercedes - Benz series
vehicles over a period of 12 months for the first time in Germany.
· High Density Headlights · Tinted Windows · Zero Accidents · Only 2 Owners · Miles: 110,550 · Within the Last 3 months had tune - up (Brand new wires and spark plugs) 0 Problem (s) Reported: 15 Title / Problems areas checked: No abandoned title record No damaged title or major damage incident record No fire damaged title record No grey market title record No hail damage title record No insurance loss title or probable total loss record No junk or scrapped title record No manufacturer buyback / lemon title record No odometer problem title record No rebuilt / rebuildable title record No salvage title or salvage auction record No water damaged title record No NHTSA crash
test record No frame / unibody damage record No recycling facility record 0 Event (s) Reported: 6
Vehicle uses checked: No
fleet, rental and / or lease use record No taxi use record No police use record No government use record No livery use record No driver education record 1 Event (s) Reported: 9
Vehicle events checked: No accident record reported through accident data sources No corrected title record No duplicate title record No emission / safety inspection record Loan / Lien record (s) No fire damage incident record No repossessed record No theft record No storm area registration / title record
It's a
fleet vehicle, didn't have a choice so didn't
test driver one.
The
vehicles are currently being outfitted with Waymo's fully self - driving technology, including a purpose - built computer and a suite of sensors, telematics and other systems, and will join Waymo's self - driving
test fleet in early 2017.
These improvements plus an expansion of their
test fleet to 90
vehicles should help Ford reach its goal of having a Level 4 autonomous
vehicle - designed to perform safety - critical driving functions and monitor conditions during the trip - by 2021.
This particular car is a
test vehicle from the factory
fleet and as a result, is showing a bit of wear from its road miles.
We also performed our own real - world
test drives — typically for a week at a time — thanks to press -
fleet vehicles that their respective manufacturers loaned to us.
Schedule A
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fleet of Sprinter
vehicles in the Chicago and Schaumburg area, you'll want to make sure their service is up to date.
To get there, the automaker is tripling the size of its autonomous development
fleet, and rolling out a new version of its
test vehicles, which are based on the Ford Fusion Hybrid sedan.