Sentences with phrase «when dozens of cars»

With stability control, traction control and snow tires, the Camaro accelerated up hilly suburban DC streets without wheelspin and the car was rock solid in four to six inches of snow on a night when dozens of cars slid off the highway.

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If a self - driving car is available when one of these customers hails an UberX, they will be greeted by a car with close to two dozen cameras and sensors, along with one engineer and one «safety driver» in the front seats.

Five people were killed, including Pc Keith Palmer, and dozens of others were injured when 52 - year - old Khalid Masood launched a car and knife attack on Westminster Bridge and the Palace of Westminster before he was shot dead.

Most of your friends are not going to post about the frustrating mom days when their youngest attempted to flush an entire pack of baby wipes down the toilet while their oldest took a dozen eggs outside to see if he could fry up some lunch on the hood of the brand new family car.

Another example of driving courtesy routinely occurs at M&T Bank, especially during the afternoon hours, when one of a long line of drivers heading south on North Manheim allows a customer exiting the bank to merge, even though the light at that intersection is notoriously short, permitting only a half dozen or so cars through at a time.

When I arrive at the Crags Campground, having traveled through Forest Service land to the official border of the wilderness, I am dismayed to see a dozen cars parked at the trailhead.

The image this approach evokes for me is that of designing a car in which the driver has to twist dozens of individual knobs to control the fuel mixture, spark advance and valve clearances, among other things — when all he wants to do is go from one place to another.

We walked into the beach house, and the rest of our dozen friends immediately asked what car we'd brought down and were less than excited when we said «a Kia».

The Jeep's Garmin - based nav system is the worst so far: slow to update, lacks labels for city names, and uses a cartoonish car icon that's dozens of miles long when you zoom out.

Take, for instance, the excellent electric power steering on the Tesla Model S. Malcolm Burgess, who worked on its development, credits the structure and components of his car, as well as hours of driving and computerized tweaking (easier, he notes, than swapping out dozens of torsion bars when tuning hydraulic power - assist systems).

When emission controls started to proliferate in the late»60s, some cars had literally dozens of vacuum lines and connections, and any one of them represented a potential vacuum leak.

When the car makes its public debut this weekend at the New York International Auto Show, count on the fact that dozens of GM executives will be breathlessly awaiting word — is it a hit or a miss?

When the Challenger GT was launched, Dodge invited the New England Motor Press to a racetrack in the ski country of New Hampshire and let us pound on a dozen of these cars in deep snow.

These so - called B.R.T. systems are being constructed in more than a dozen cities and, when done well, draw passengers out of their cars and off of polluting minibuses, reducing emissions by over 50 per cent in cities like Bogota.

The CEO of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, says that, when it comes to the large - scale manufacture of electric vehicles, GM will ultimately beat out the dozens of electric - vehicle startups that have recently started racing to sell green cars.

When I was about 6 years old, I already had compiled thousands of matchbox cars, dozens of plastic Big Wheel tires, and turned my bike into a tractor trailer by tying a Radio Flyer wagon to the back.

I think that I randomly chose this broker's phone number from the phonebook out of dozens of other insurers when I needed to get my newly purchased car insured.