Sentences with phrase «vehicles test which»

The driver must also complete and pass a combination vehicles test which will enable him to drive vehicles that have multiple units like a tractor and a trailer or a tractor that has triple trailers.

On a vehicle I tested which turned out to have a bad HG, the transition was only from blue to slightly teal, nowhere near yellow or even fully green.

Not exact matches

Rather than pay up, Uber got into a lengthy debate with the state in which Anthony Levandowski, vice president at Uber's Advanced Technologies Group (and founder of the self - driving startup Otto that Uber acquired) argued Uber wasn't actually testing «autonomous vehicles» because all its vehicles had human drivers aboard and would for the foreseeable future.

Due mainly to happenstance — which models proved easiest to rent or borrow — the researchers ended up with a BMW X5 and two VWs, a Jetta and a Passat, as test vehicles.

The company plans to start testing early versions of the vehicle, which will be equipped with manual controls, just in case.

Troops from the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who took part in the testing in Maryland, spoke highly of the new features on the vehicle, which has been nicknamed «Dragoon» after the regiment.

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.

That Monday's accident was the first fatal incident involving a fully autonomous vehicle indicates that arguments for their safety have merit, but much of that testing has occurred on highways, which are easier for self - driving cars to navigate than dense, urban environments.

China has reportedly tested its hypersonic strike vehicle called «Wu - 14,» which has been tested at least four times since January 2014.

States like Florida, which has favorable weather, and Michigan, home to the U.S. car industry, have also adopted a laissez faire approach the autonomous vehicle testing in hopes of attracting or retaining automaker and tech company dollars.

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.

The problem was discovered via internal testing, per Tesla, and basically involves the cable that controls the reclining of the two rear seats being too tight in some vehicles, which means that when the seats are folded back up from a flat position, they might not fully lock in place again.

The 200 vehicles, which consist of both the Model S sedans and the Model X SUVs from Tesla, will be tested in the «autopilot» mode, which currently requires a human driver to be present.

Uber launched its self - driving pilot in San Francisco on Dec. 14, after which the DMV ordered the company to cease its operations until the vehicles got the permits required to test autonomous technology on public roads.

While IIHS and dozens of other private industry groups around the world have methods and motivations that suit their own subjective purposes, the most objective and accurate independent testing of vehicle safety is currently done by the U.S. government, which found Model S and Model X to be the two cars with the lowest probability of injury of any cars that it has ever tested, making them the safest cars in history.»

T) said it will pause autonomous vehicle testing following Sunday's accident in which an Uber Technologies Inc self - driving SUV struck and killed a woman in Tempe, Arizona.

The companies are pushing lawmakers to allow for experimental testing of drone delivery in sparsely populated areas and more research and development of delivery plans, according to Michael E. Drobac, a leader of Akin Gump's unmanned aerial vehicle lobbying practice, which represents Amazon.

As for costs of operation — chief among them being product delivery — technologies like driverless, autonomous electric vehicles, which are already test - driving around Las Vegas, are sure to be rapidly adopted by major courier companies as it becomes feasible to do so, substantially reducing delivery costs.

InvestoCopy had temporarily closed their trading platform last year saying they needed to work on a new brand vehicle for their services which is to be launched in early 2016 after a period of testing.

We have laws requiring anyone operating a vehicle to obtain a drivers license which includes a written test and a driving test.

2 Nevada law states that children must ride in appropriate child restraints until 6 years of age and 60 lbs.; however, children won't fit the vehicle seat belt correctly to not suffer injury in a crash until the above 5 - step test is passed, which happens around ages 9 - 11.

The new i - Size standard (R129), which was introduced in early 2014, has brought in additional crash testing and new technologies, which aim to ensure better safety for your child and more compatibility between car seats and vehicles.

State lawmakers in the budget last month approved a provision that allows for a 12 - month pilot program for testing self - driving vehicles, which automobile industry observers expect will be a multi-billion dollar business in the coming years.

Counties such as Nassau, which now registers all for - hire vehicles within its borders, and the towns and villages that license and test drivers, will have no role, costing them potential fine revenue as well as local control.

Ironically, with much talk currently over EU Type Approval regulations, it is Article 4 (2) of EU Directive 2009 / 40 / EC, that allows governments to exempt pre - 1960 vehicles and in fact brings requirements into line with the unladen pre-1960 manufactured HGVs, which are already exempted from the MOT testing.

«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.

Consequently, no launch vehicle today stands ready to take people to the moon and back, although the Falcon Heavy rocket built by private spaceflight firm SpaceX, which is currently in testing, may fill the void.

Neil Jones, programme manager at Upside Energy, said: «These tests at a single house level (Energy House) will help us establish a baseline of data which could be scaled up to hundreds if not thousands of homes and vehicles and start to identify what services can be offered to householders and the grid in the future.»

Planetary Resources — which last year deployed a demonstration vehicle into low - Earth orbit to test core avionics, navigation, and computing systems — is soon to deploy another vehicle to test remote sensing capacities.

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

To test the process, the WPI researchers sliced the drive unit (which contains the electric motor and other components of the drive train) of an all - electric Chevrolet Spark vehicle into several pieces and then shredded the pieces.

In one of the scenarios Honda is testing, the first car traveling in a group of three slams on the brakes to avoid hitting an animal, which sends an immediate warning to the following vehicles and sends a picture of the situation to their dashboards.

The heavy - lift launch vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test flight.

On May 25, the team, which includes co-principal investigators Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering at The Johns Hopkins University, and Dana Yoerger of WHOI who were responsible for development of the vehicle's navigation and control system, conducted a planned sequence of successively deeper dives — testing Nereus, making scientific observations and collecting deep - sea samples at each depth they reached.

Bosworth's star vehicle Stone Cold is less a film than a construct in which veteran screenwriter Walter Doniger, in his seventies the year it was released, puts audience - tested Lethal Weapon concepts through a blender.

Furthermore, they were coached by Dru's father, a practical role model who impressed upon them from the outset that basketball was «more than a game,» to help them see it was a vehicle to be used «to get from Point A to Point B.» LeBron and company took that message to heart, cultivating not only character, individually, but a chemistry and cohesiveness, collectively, which would stand the test of time.

To test drive vehicles before you purchase them you still need to set - up a free race event (which seems like a massive over-sight).

Commercially - operated schools and colleges running minibus transport will need to operate with a PSV Operator's licence (only issued by the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA), previously known as the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), and all drivers will be required to hold a full PCV D1 entitlement and a Driver Certificate of Professional Competence (DCPC), which as stated earlier can only be obtained by passing a second test in a minibus.

Keeping things simple and using the tried and tested PDSA model of change, provides a vehicle in which to reach and involve all members of staff.

Certified Auto Parts Association (CAPA) is an independent testing organization which does just that for vehicle parts.

In total, 20 vehicles fell off the winner's list as a result of the more stringent 2016 requirements, including the popular Toyota Sienna and Highlander, neither of which has achieved a «Good» rating in the small overlap test.

If the standard AMG body kit and interior accoutrements are not ostentatious enough for you, you may choose an optional Performance Package, which not only injects an additional 32 hp and 44 pound - feet of torque, but also buys the carbon fiber engine cover, special steering wheel, and red - painted calipers our test vehicle sported.

I tested the standard InControl Touch («Novice» implied), which has an 8 - inch touch - screen flanked by buttons that are mechanical rather than the touch - sensitive panels that cheapen some of Land Rover's vehicles.

Volvo remains the only automaker to claim responsibility for any of its vehicles involved in an accident while operated by its autonomous systems, but the Drive Me test program is being conducted with 100 Volvo XC90s on just 50 kilometers (31 miles) of limited - access highway in Gothenburg, Sweden, which, I am told, doesn't get much snow.

Said to be acting as a test bed for new technology, the fuel cell car is a precursor to mass production hydrogen powered vehicles, which BMW says could arrive by 2020.

On the Japanese test cycle, Honda says the Fit Hybrid achieves 85 mpg which is the highest of any hybrid vehicle in Japan and should make for lofty EPA ratings in the U.S. as well.

We'll have to reserve full judgement for a drive on UK roads, as a short, smooth section of the Route Napoleon is a fairly one - dimensional environment over which to test a vehicle.

Chris was great, he had the car ready to show us right outside, while we were test driving the car the dealership was appraising her old vehicle which was pretty much a formality since it was basically worth the metal that hadn't rusted off yet and were done before we got back, he knew we were buying the car together and made sure each of the things we were concerned about having in a car were met, when we got back the negotiating was painless and we agreed on a very fair price and got the financing in order.

Seeing is believing though maybe you can test drive a vehicle which has it installed and make your decision that way.

Buyers may also want to opt for the newly available camera - based video rearview mirror, which we had in our test vehicle.