Sentences with phrase «well at highway»

Optional, power - assisted rack - and - pinion steering ($ 225) made for effortless going — although the standard steering wheel is too skinny for a serious grip — and power front - disc and rear - drum brakes reined the car in well at highway speeds.

They're wrapped in Continental Cross Contact LX Sport tires that work just as well at highway speeds as they do trudging through loose sand.

Honda's adaptive cruise control works well at highway speeds.

Routine handling: The power - assisted rack - and - pinion system feels somewhat heavy getting underway but works well at highway speeds, where less steering effort is needed.

Lane keeping assist works well at highway speeds, and the automatic high beams are responsive.

it's just that someone who upgraded from an E70 would probably feel the same thing I felt, that the E70's steering weight feels better at highway speeds.

The GTI is a fast and nimble car, performing better at highway speeds and on twisty roads, than at low speeds.

Composure is good at highway speed with moderate body lean in corners.

Not exact matches

Sometimes... well, sometimes a tractor - trailer just seems big and scary and you wish they weren't on the highway at all.

And certain things are better done on the federal level than at the state level: national defense, a monetary system, interstate commerce (including highways and aviation), the National Park System, and international diplomacy.

Instead, a better metaphor may be people who somehow awoke at the helm of a very large bus speeding down the highway, he said.

While Querétaro is well - positioned at a key intersection of the so - called «NAFTA Highway,» the network of roads, rail and telecommunication lines that connect the U.S. to Mexico City, the state has had a long history of foreign investment.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety replicated small front - overlap crashes with seven small SUVs that received good ratings after the front driver's side corner of the vehicle hit a barrier at 40 mph.

Key features include the Park Over the Highway, a $ 38.5 million pedestrian plaza that crosses over Interstate 44, as well as Kiener Plaza and Luther Ely Smith Square, both remodeled at a cost of $ 34.2 million.

«Machines aren't really good at random change, so the reason it's easy to self - drive on the highway is that you're always in the right or second most right lane and maintaining a constant speed,» says Starsky Robotics co-founder Stefan Seltz - Axmacher.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

It was like falling into deep water at night, and before I awoke I was off the highway, the gravel clattering in the wheel - wells and the weeds snapping off as they tore against the fenders.

Located at the intersection of Alexander Valley Road and Highway 128, the bar has been a neighborhood fixture since the early 1900s when it was better known as the Alexander Valley Store and Bar.

You can find hundreds of vegan and vegetarian breakfast ideas, from everyday to fancy in The Good Breakfast Book by Nikki and David Goldbeck (Ceres Press), available at a special price at Healthy Highways.

With Folsom now the marquee football program that Cordova once was back in the 1970s and 80s, the Lancers» numbers — of both players and wins — steadily decreased through the years as the best athletes in Cordova's enrollment area drove a few exits east on Highway 50 or simply abandoned the sport at the high school level.

I want a defender that forces highway onto the first 4 or is at least the 5th best.

The joint planning committee, formed two months ago by Mettawa officials, would like to prevent further traffic congestion at the Deerfield Road toll plaza, as well as east and west on Illinois Highways 22, 60 and 176.

Which is great, but I almost did her one better by very nearly giving birth in the front seat of my husband's car while we sped down the highway at close to twice the legal speed limit.

In preparation for my veggie garden, I took a look at my garden plot (aka a pile of dirt below the highway) and this is what I saw: Well, apparently someone had planted some veggies without me know...

John Smart, the well known and popular Director of Policy and Technical Affairs at the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT) died suddenly in November at the age of 55 after a very short illness.

New nepotism rules would prevent some hires as well as prohibit relatives reporting to one another, as was the case she inherited at the highway department.

He also spoke at the meeting about maintaining provisions that protect the safety of highway workers and bus operators, as well as maintaining «Safe Streets» language, which, according to the release, aims to ensure that new infrastructure is designed in a manner that helps protect pedestrians.

Either way, Highway Superintendent Tom Best Sr. will leave office at the end of the year and Ted Casey will take over Jan. 1.

At 12:30 p.m., Suffolk County Executive Steve Bellone will be joined by the Long Island Association, Association for a Better Long Island, Suffolk County Alliance of Chambers, small business owners and local elected officials to sound the alarm against federal tax reform, H. Lee Dennison Building, 100 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge, Long Island.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. John Katko will be joined by local elected officials from Onondaga, Cayuga, Wayne, and Oswego counties, as well as local business, transportation, and labor organizations, for a press conference to the discuss passage a long - term, multi-year highway bill, corner of South McBride and East Washington streets, Syracuse.

The CIHT Awards are a celebration of best practice within the highways and transportation industry, and will be presented at the De Vere Grand Connaught Rooms in London in just over two months.

This will improve the deployment capability and operations of our Highway Department; at the end of the day that serves all the people of Rockland better.»

We are always looking at new and better ways to make the highway even safer, and Governor Cuomo's Text Stops initiative is an excellent way for drivers to stay in touch while recognizing the dangers of using mobile devices while driving.»

Jimmy Fugel, the town's highway superintendent, will run for re-election as a Democrat unopposed, at least as of press time, while Republican incumbent town justice Tim Cox was expected to be nominated as well, again without opposition.

In neighbourhoods, on the streets, on the Highways as well as at establishments and institutions they are assigned to guard, the Police are always at serious risk.

Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris who made the disclosure at the inauguration of the newly acquired air - conditioned K - 9 trailers in Abuja, said the Kaduna - Abuja highway would also witness the deployment of K - 9 dogs as well as other strategic hotspots in Abuja for crime control.

Heyeck sees another way to make the power highways more flexible while sticking with good old AC, albeit at an extra-high 765 kilovolts.

Now, after observing a notoriously choked stretch of autobahn, two German researchers think they understand better why even a minor slowdown on a packed highway can rapidly trigger long - lasting gridlock: Traffic at times appears to act like a substance rapidly changing from, say, a gas to a liquid.

Lead author Winston Vickers, an associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said fragmentation of mountain lion populations by highways is happening to a serious degree in the Santa Ana mountain range, as well as elsewhere in Southern California, such as the Santa Monica Mountains.

This digital highway, to be operational in 2014, will not only transfer the enormous quantity of data that ALMA will produce when fully built, it will also allow for heightened quality in the level of communication between those operating the observatory from its remote and hostile region in the desert of Atacama and those processing the data at ALMA headquarters in Santiago; as well as the scientific community throughout the world.

-- king's highway diner at the ace hotel for good comfort food and great stumptown iced coffee.

This is the terrain for which Foley, at his best a slinky genre stylist with a tobacco - acrid edge, was presumably brought on board, and he gives it a bit of vim: A luxury - vehicle car chase, screeching and weaving at arrogant speed along the highways of Seattle, is a set piece that rattles in the mind longer and louder than the who and why of it all.

Andrew Stone's Highway 301 has little of Mann's craft and visual control and it wobbles between brutal action and awkward exposition, but at its best it's as gritty as any noir fan could hope for.

Using an old - fashioned paper map, plan the best route from starting point to final destination and note it down, outlining the major highways that will be traveled, distances to be covered at each leg of the trip, and pertinent cardinal directions.

For example, the capabilities that make McDonalds great at operating fast - food restaurants are not well suited to building highways, designing smart phones, or treating diseases.

Although the Gulf Coast of the American Southeast may not seem like the ideal testing grounds for the 2013 Jaguar XFR - S, the fastest production sedan in the marque's history, Motor Trend's Arthur St. Antoine made good use of the big cat's highway manners in an entertaining tour of the third coast, starting off at Sebring, the site of Jaguar's first motorsports victory in the U.S. in 1955.

That's well short of Honda's claim of up to 42 mpg highway, but neither is it a deal - breaker in a car competitively priced at about $ 20,000.

It gets me out of tight spots on the highway easily but if that is not good enough you can switch to Sports mode with increased speed and handling or down to Eco mode which feels a little sluggish at the starts and gear changes but helps to conserve gas and overall economy of the vehicle and environment - and adds to safety, I believe.

Because it gets fuel economy that's significantly better than the S400 Hybrid, particularly on the highway (the EPA rates the hybrid at 19/25 mpg city / highway, and Mercedes reckons that the diesel will earn a 20 / 31 - mpg rating), but is expected cost only a few thousand dollars more.

The benefit of less oomph is better mileage: EPA figures are rated at a very respectable 24/35 mpg city / highway.