Sentences with phrase «when company vehicles»

However, there are financial risks associated with running a business, and these risks increase significantly when company vehicles are part of the equation.

Locally - owned companies are thriving in the Hoosier state, but the financial risks of running a business increase significantly when company vehicles are part of the equation.

Not exact matches

Uber last fall shut down a vehicle leasing business targeting their drivers when the company found it lost $ 9000 per car rather than the $ 500 it has estimated.

The idea that running a company could be a vehicle for social change has been part of Vermont's business culture at least since the 1940s, when a New Yorker named Lyman Wood moved to Burlington and founded Garden Way, a mail - order gardening supply business.

But companies can also expand earnings if they can get more parts inside a vehicle or, in industry - speak, when content per vehicle (CPV) grows.

The most recent major voluntary Model S recall occurred in 2015, when the company summoned the entire fleet over a single Model S vehicle that experienced a seat - belt malfunction.

As Tesla CEO Elon Musk recounted at the company's annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday, a bug in the car's systems prevented the vehicle from going any faster when the two Google cofounders hopped aboard.

Last year, Seeing Machines signed a deal with construction vehicle manufacturer Caterpillar to install systems in 40,000 of the company's mining trucks that sense when drivers aren't looking at the road or are falling asleep at the wheel and alert them with an alarm and a vibrating seat.

On Tuesday, Fortune reported that Elon Musk and Tesla Motors (tsla) may have withheld a material fact from shareholders when it failed to disclose that a driver had died using the semi-self driving «autopilot» feature in one of the company's vehicles.

Or security personnel could be warned when a recently fired employee's vehicle arrives on company premises.

It may be weird when these vehicles first appear on the street, but over time the company expects people to get used to them.

Then, in October, the company revealed it had only built 260 Model 3 vehicles in the third quarter when it had originally planned to hit 1,500 in September alone.

The one element binding this diverse group of investors together is that they receive some type of equity or stock vehicle when they put money into a growth company; each group then has its own set of goals in regard to how much of an investment return its members hope to earn on that stock and how quickly they hope to earn it (usually when they cash out during an initial public offering or in a merger or acquisition deal).

That's significant, he says, because historically, when utilization rates exceed 89 % trucking companies have to put more vehicles on the road — about 35,000 for every 1 % above that threshold.

In the eyes of insurers, today's self - driving vehicles are treated no differently than conventional cars when they're involved in a collision, according to Maureen Brown of Munich Reinsurance America, a firm that insures a number of companies testing autonomous vehicles.

When Ford informed Trump it would not shift production of a Lincoln sport utility vehicle to Mexico from Kentucky, he took to Twitter to say he saved the plant, although the company had never considered moving the whole factory south of the border.

The growing pile of rock is what's leftover when the company's excavators form the tunnels that will eventually transport vehicles at 125 mph using underground sleds.

Venture capital firms are ten - year vehicles for investors, but that doesn't mean that all companies will be ten years old when they return on the investment.

And then when we, I think John Markoff wrote a story, discovering that we were testing and driving the vehicles in public, that's when all the car companies realized at the first level that something might happen.

People doubted that when we first came out with the Roadster eight years ago, but given the success of Model S and Model X, the overwhelming interest in Model 3, and the fact that other car companies are finally starting electric vehicle programs of their own, no one should doubt that anymore.

When Tesla revealed that Model S 70 owners with the 70 kWh battery could in fact unlock an extra 5 kWh for a fee bringing it to a total of 75 kWh, it sent the rest of the auto industry a loud and clear message that the company can and will continue to streamline ways to continuously improve upon its vehicles via over the air updates.

As a result, when an air bag is deployed, the inflator could explode with too much force and shoot out metal fragments into the vehicle, the company said in a statement.

Faraday Future showed off the FF 91's specifications and features at the press event, following up on the disastrous showing at CES 2016 when the company was only able to showcase a non-functional concept vehicle and not the company's long - awaited production model.

PHOENIX — The family of an Arizona woman killed when struck by an autonomous Uber vehicle apparently has reached a settlement with the company.

When U.S. car companies go to high - dollar, low - MPG vehicles, it means gas prices go up.

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick as well as leaders of companies such as Ford, BMW, Google and ride - sharing rival Lyft have cited 2021 as a date when self - driving cars could constitute the bulk of vehicles in urban centers.

Waymo, originally Google's autonomous vehicle division, has accused one of the best engineers in the field, Anthony Levandowski, of stealing 14,000 documents from it and then moving on to Uber when the ride - hailing company bought Levandowski's new self - driving truck company, Otto, last summer.

GM, which now has a seat on Lyft's board, will get access to the ride - hailing company's software, whereas Lyft will have GM's expertise — especially when it comes to autonomous vehicles to separate itself from competitors like Uber in the future.

In the Uber crash last month, the ride - services company was testing a fully driverless system intended for commercial use when the prototype vehicle struck and killed a woman walking across an Arizona road.

A company engineer sits behind the wheel in each vehicle and can take over when needed.

But transportation companies know all too well that for much of the time, engines are running when vehicles aren't moving, either because the vehicle is stuck in traffic or it's left on while parked.

But when Krafcik officially unveiled Waymo to the world, he repeatedly referred to the vehicles the company's technology will power as «our» cars.

The first indication that Waymo was positioning itself as a competitor to players like Mobieleye and Delphi came in December, when CEO John Krafcik announced the company was going to build its own sensor technology, the proverbial eyes that self - driving vehicles need to track the road and any obstacles such as oncoming traffic or pedestrians.

There are two ways to approach vehicle downtime when you are responsible for a company fleet.

When an accident happens, that means the company has to pay to get the vehicle repaired and pay for a rental vehicle to replace it.

A common mistake made by fleet companies is a failure to grasp the importance of the remarketing stage when it comes to maximizing a vehicle's return on investment.

Amakye Dede was about to perform at The Paradise near the Bonsu Junction in the Eastern region last Saturday and had the company of his manager when a Mercedes - Benz Sprinter bus rammed into his vehicle.

Exton Cubic's troubles began when vehicles belonging to its sub-contractor, Ibrahim Mahama's Engineers and Planners (E&P), were impounded in the Nyinahin township on orders from the Ashanti Regional Minister, following suspicions the mining company was operating illegally.

This is the first time SpaceX has launched a Dragon cargo vehicle for NASA since June 2015, when one of the company's Falcon 9 rockets exploded shortly after liftoff, destroying the cargo capsule in the process.

«If a power company has the ability to selectively charge groups of vehicles based on when renewable energy resources are available,» he says, «it makes electric vehicles useful not only for reducing petroleum consumption but for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases overall that we produce.»

With several groups showing interest in the technology — including NASA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and companies that produce unmanned aerial vehicles — Cadogan might be aiming too low when he says the sky is the limit for these wings.

The first will only be solved when companies begin to mass produce such vehicles, according to GM's Burns, which could happen as soon as 2012 when a law is set to take effect in California requiring that a portion of new cars emit no pollution.

Driverless taxis gained more attention when General Motors Co. in early January made a $ 500 million investment in the ride - sharing company Lyft to develop a network of autonomous, on - demand vehicles.

When the Chevrolet Spark debuted in 2013, the nation had zero DC fast - chargers that could fit the vehicle, something critics said pointed to the company's ulterior motives.

The «abhorrent» dating tactics of the male redback spider: Scientists find they target immature females who haven't yet learnt to eat them after mating Car companies use crash test dummies when they want to figure out how to make their vehicles safer.

Bad Company is an example of what happens when filmmakers decide to engage in a feckless cash grab — a greatest hits compendium of stolen moments so bombastic and dreary that when the film actually rips off a gag from Fletch (like that balding loser at the bar thinking himself a wit while well into the second decade of quoting Chevy Chase vehicles).

by Bill Chambers Peter Chelsom may have sold his soul when he joined the ranks of Lasse Hallstrom and John Madden to become a house director for Miramax, but going to work at Disney — on a feature - film vehicle for one of the company's biggest brands, no less — is a mercenary move, pure and simple.

When Mario Kart 8 released a free DLC pack featuring several models of Mercedes vehicles, gamers were understandably stumped about why a company was placing what seemed like advertising within a $ 60 game.

And when I say «shuttle,» I mean, «Giant luxury vehicle built by that company.»

Audi will become the first company to test autonomous vehicles in New York when its demonstration car hits the streets of Albany in mid-June.