Sentences with phrase «vehicles from roads»

By removing the most polluting vehicles from the roads, which account for 75 % of all pollution from cars (while only accounting for 25 % of all miles driven) according to Blinder, and disbursing cash to low - income households, the policy would help to both dramatically reduce emissions and alleviate income inequality.

This figure is equivalent to taking out 4 million vehicles from roads for a whole year.

In the Boston area, and other snowy regions, the Governor has started to ban vehicles from roads during snow emergencies.

Members of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, have threatened to withdraw their vehicles from the roads as from January 2012 if the federal government goes ahead...

The Commissioner during the press briefing said the State Government would commence removal of abandoned and accidents vehicles from the roads to complement emergency recovery efforts and prevent mishaps on streets and major highways.

She called for a new Clean Air Act and said Government must rewrite its Air Quality Strategy immediately, commit to removing the most polluting vehicles from the roads as soon as possible and set up a national network of Clean Air Zones.

«The next step should be to focus on gasoline or removing old diesel vehicles from the road.

For a 1 gigawatt power plant, a 1 percent improvement in efficiency saves 17,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions a year, equivalent to removing more than 3,500 vehicles from the road.

The reduction of single occupancy vehicles from the road is an integral component to reducing traffic congestion, strengthening the investment in our Nation's infrastructure by reducing vehicle strain on roads and bridges, and reducing emissions.

Large liquid - filled bushing that helps isolate the vehicle from road or engine vibrations due to the suspension traveling on uneven road surfaces.

The buyback or repair program is expected to run for three years; the automaker will have to pay additional funds to the environmental mitigation trust if it lags behind on removing 85 percent of the affected vehicles from the road.

If you have to remove your vehicle from the road for repairs, you may obtain a de-insurance certificate that will allow you to temporarily not maintain the required insurance on your vehicle.

Not exact matches

The following infographic comes to us from Get Off Road, and it shows the history of autonomous vehicles, how they work, the technical challenges overcome so far, and what the near - future of driverless cars may look like.

Audi just showed off its new 2019 A8, the first vehicle for market with Level 3 autonomy, and the automaker still needs to get approval from regulators around the world to enable the system for use on public roads.

Aurora Innovation, the secretive startup founded by autonomous vehicle veterans from Google, Tesla, and Uber, has received a permit from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self - driving cars on public roads there.

Life expectancy at birth Infant mortality rate (figures for Korea and New Zealand were taken from the CIA World Factbook, 2005 data) % of population over age 15 considered obese and overweight Prison population rate Motor vehicles per 1,000 people Road fatalities per million people Road fatalities per million vehicles (figures for Mexico taken from the North American Transportation Statistics Database)

The most profound changes may come from the development of a truly intelligent car — vehicles with increasing levels of knowledge about the driver and driving conditions, from the road itself to traffic patterns to even the weather.

The state has licensed 27 companies to test driverless vehicles on public roads, including vehicle manufacturers from BMW to Tesla Inc; suppliers such as Delphi Automotive Plc and Nvidia Corp; technology companies such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo and China's Baidu Inc; and a long list of self - driving startups such as Zoox, Drive.ai, AutoX and PlusAI.

Predictions as to when fully autonomous vehicles will actually hit the road range from 2050 to as soon as next year.

The vehicle was traveling northbound just south of Curry Rd. when a female walking outside of the crosswalk cross the road from west to east when she was struck by the Uber vehicle.

It's easily the most technologically advanced vehicle currently on the road, and although von Holzhausen didn't depart from the Model X template, he showed that it was flexible enough to work on the two most important genres in the luxury space.

There will be 20 million autonomous vehicles on the road by 2025, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

A new parts warranty for the 350,000 Saabs still on the road in North America is intended to keep Saab service centers — and the vehicles themselves — from vanishing.

«We have to dispatch another bus, and we have to literally remove those kids on the side of the road from one vehicle to another.

A woman in Tempe, Ariz., died after being hit by a self - driving car operated by Uber, in what is believed to be the first fatality of a pedestrian from an autonomous vehicle on public roads.

That means making sure prices cover not only the direct costs of supplying energy but also the environmental externalities associated with production and use of fossil fuels — the waste water (which increases a variety of risks), and the broader side effects from vehicle use — congested roads, traffic deaths, and so on.

The work by Uber doesn't involve any public trials of vehicles on the road — at least not yet — but it will give Uber access to talent and tech coming from one of the bright spots on the global AI and autonomous driving scene.

In the chart above, courtesy of a March report from theOxford Institute for Energy Studies, you can see that the number of vehicles driving on Indian roads doubled between 2007 and 2014, thanks not only to an exploding population but also the rise of India's «spending class,» as Gianni calls it.

«We would argue, that to be considered the safest vehicle on the road, it should earn a «Good» rating from the IIHS as well as a five - star safety rating from NHTSA,» Zuby said.

During the early phase of self - driving vehicle testing, Arizona refrained from adding new restrictions on companies testing on state roads, Biesty said, adding they did not believe any new regulations would add to safety.

Once drivers are detected to be sleepy or suffering from road rage, the systems will allow the vehicle to respond.

China's Ministry of Transport, along with other authorities, has said that from next month (link in Chinese) all provincial and city governments will have the authority to allow road - testing of autonomous vehicles in their areas.

Video of the crash, taken from inside the vehicle, shows the driver at the wheel, seemingly looking down and not at the road.

Uber says that vehicles on the road today use off - the - shelf lidar technology from Velodyne, and that the in - house lidar the company's engineers are building was developed before Levandowski joined.

Many believe self - driving vehicles will lead to an overall decline in cars on the road as people shift from owning their own cars to utilizing a shared fleet of on - demand self - driving cars.

The Mount Zion Baptist Church bus from Huntsville, Alabama, was heading to the airport for a student ministry mission trip to Africa when it collided with another vehicle on a four - lane road, Fulton County Police Corporal Partrena Smith said.

They found remnants of the wreck scattered across the road, personal belongings that spilled from the vehicle and had been overlooked in the darkness: a battered pair of sunglasses, a NAPA baseball cap, debit cards and gun - range earplugs.

We train in the University Sports Complex which is accessed from Jackdaw Lane by vehicle or Iffley Road by foot or bike.

This special extension to British Cycling's motor vehicle insurance arrangements is «comprehensive» (i.e. not «third party») in the event of a road traffic incident only and does not provide insurance cover for property or vehicle damage claims arising, for example, from the use of radio and other event equipment or where a motorcycle has fallen to the ground from a stationary position.

The current plan to route construction vehicles from Nelson Road to Haven Avenue to Greenbriar Avenue will «trash those roads,» said Trustee Dave Smith.

• A GPS unit was reported stolen Dec. 4 from an unlocked vehicle parked in the 100 block of Buffalo Grove Road.

If you need a stroller that is quick to unload from your vehicle and set up while running errands and moving from shop to shop; lightweight and easy - open is the best option for you Long walks on the country side with uneven terrain - you will likely want a jogging stroller that feature larger tires and off - road capabilities If the children will be in the double stroller for long periods of time - you will want something with maximum comfort that feature reclining seats and maybe even space for food and toys You will seat 2 car seats for newborn baby.

Whilst the initiative has been sold as an omnibus road safety initiative to clear broken down vehicles from every nook and cranny, the wily RSML has ensured that in actual fact its obligations are in fact limited to seven major highway complexes and 21 towing points nationwide.

«Reallocating a few pence from existing fuel duty might prove an equitable way of turning the tide, as could previous calls for Vehicle Excise Duty to be redirected to local roads from 2021.»

Issue 7: Whether the Respondent has perpetrated fraud on people of Ghana by representing to Ghanaians that Ouedrago Cheik Mohammed was actually the importer of the vehicle in question when indeed the vehicle was transported by road with personnel from both Ghana Embassy at Burkina Faso and Ghana Boarder at Paga through to Accra.

The project is expected to ease out traffic and flooding on the road which is used by some fifty (50) thousand vehicles from both the Central and Western Regions.

In a first step toward possibly allowing driverless cars in New York, the state is seeking applications from companies interested in testing the vehicles on public roads.

From police records and a site inspection it appears Latimer swerved right then left, crossing over a double - yellow line into the Eastbound lane of Wilmot Road, then leaving the road entirely, crashing into a backyard fence along the roadway and striking a tree where the vehicle came to a sRoad, then leaving the road entirely, crashing into a backyard fence along the roadway and striking a tree where the vehicle came to a sroad entirely, crashing into a backyard fence along the roadway and striking a tree where the vehicle came to a stop.

The bill in the City Council, which could come up for a vote as early as Thursday, would only allow Uber and similar cab - apps like Lyft to bring 201 new cars onto the road in the next year — a steep drop - off from Uber's planned addition of 10,000 new vehicles.

«When we see them on the road without showing us the devices, the state command of the FRSC will impound such vehicles and booked them appropriately, unless there is a counter directive from the FRSC headquarters.