Sentences with phrase «when drivers of cars»

While bike riding is undoubtedly a fun and healthy alternative to driving, it is also somewhat dangerous when drivers of cars and trucks don't adopt the «share the road» attitude that they should.

A 21 - year - old man of the 2200 block of East 92nd Street was killed when the driver of the car in which he was a passenger struck a squad car.

The incident happened on I - 26 in Spartanburg County on March 19th and began when the driver of a car veered off the road and collided with a tree.

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The experience started before I even left my apartment, when a black car pulled up outside my house and the driver helped me with my luggage and unloaded me at the airport, an amenity all Emirates Business & First Class passengers can take advantage of.

To play «backseat DJ,» you first need to connect your Spotify account with your Uber profile; when you request a ride, a music bar will appear at the bottom of the Uber app and you can select a playlist from your Spotify account while you wait for your car to show (although this only works if you get a music - enabled car, a detail that's apparently stressing out Uber drivers with older vehicles who fear they'll be penalized for not offering the service).

Free law advice: A driver once told me a story about how he had a high - priced lawyer in the back of his car during a time when he was going through a legal issue.

Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO Travis Kalanick said Wednesday at the inaugural Code Conference.

Self - driving cars are coming and, when they do, Uber drivers are simply out of luck, the company's CEO said at the inaugural Code Conference.

Von Holzhausen makes no bones about it: The Model 3's ultra-minimalist interior — completely defined by a horizontal version of the Tesla touchscreen — anticipates a day when cars won't need controls for human drivers.

Eventually, when drivers are replaced by robot cars, Uber could capture close to 100 percent of the fare.

The importance of understanding how drivers interact with autonomous or semiautonomous vehicles was underscored year ago when a Tesla owner was killed while driving his 2015 Model S in Florida with the car's Autopilot system engaged.

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.

Using a combination of radar mounted behind the car's front grille, and digital cameras located under the rear - view mirror, the system first alerts drivers when it detects pedestrians.

Under Uber's lease arrangements, drivers» leases can run far above the actual Blue Book value of the car, not unlike how homeowners were left underwater when housing prices plummeted and their mortgages far exceeded their homes» value.

The driver of a Tesla Model S was killed in 2016 when his car, operating on its Autopilot system, crashed into a tractor - trailer in Florida.

In the months since these top engineers have left, the 43 self - driving cars Uber had on the roads as of March 8 saw little progress when it came to decreasing the frequency of disengagements — or how many times a safety driver would have to take back control of the system.

Thrun has been a public figure since 2005, when a modified Volkswagen Touareg of his design won a Department of Defense — sponsored competition that pitted cars without drivers through a 128 - mile, pedestrian - free course in the Mojave Desert.

It added a button on the steering wheel for drivers to create an audio explanation when they took the car out of autonomous mode.

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP)-- Whether it's the pleasant greeting when you slide into the driver's seat or a loud, annoying beep that warns you of an imminent crash, there's science behind the noises that your car makes.

Every fall, I and several hundred of my high school - aged peers would gather in the auditorium of the local Baptist church and watch the play unfold: Characters Joe and Jane and Mike and Michelle are on their way home from prom when their car gets struck by a drunk driver.

If a car, when it breaks down, causes a nuclear explosion, you can blame the driver for not taking care of the engine — a little bit, but you also blame the stupid car company that made a car that is ABLE to break down and cause such death and destruction by its mere misuse.

The process was going to rob me of the little strength I have as a person living with debilitating pain in 15 areas of my body, since 1985 when my car was hit head on by a truck driven by a drunk driver.

From a driver who survived when her car (totaled) was pushed across 4 lanes of rush hour traffic by a driver on a marijuana high, I applaud legislation to make this drug hard to get.

Just as a car is not evil when it kills someone after spinning out of control of the driver, so also, creation is in chaos because the human drivers have lost control.

It's bad enough that drivers struggle to follow other cars closely because of the dirty air, but when that's also causing drivers to worry about future reliability, there's a reduced incentive for them to challenge each other unless they're confident of being able to make a pass fairly quickly.

That meant he had some advantages other drivers didn't necessarily have, like at the 1996 Spanish Grand Prix, when he spent most of the warm - up trying both his race car and the spare car to see which one he liked the most.

«I thought I was about to win out,» McMullen wrote, «when suddenly Harvey Jones stepped to the driver's side of the car (a late - model Mercury), reached in, pulled the keys from the switch, ran behind the car to a side gate, through the gate and began to call for someone to bring him a shotgun.

But, it was a hard battle to get to fourth for Buemi, and wasn't happy with some of the other drivers on the grid (we imagine he was in an even worse mood later on, when he was disqualified for his car being underweight).

During an F4 practice session at the Oschersleben circuit in Germany, Mucke Motorsport driver Floersch was tackling a quick series of corners when she came across a course car.

Most of the drivers and crew chiefs believe that when these cars slide sideways or backwards against the wind, air packs underneath and simply lifts the 3,700 - pound machines.

That NASCAR hasn't had a fatality in one of its three national divisions since 2001 is a testament to its steadfast commitment to safety, including requiring drivers to wear head - and - neck restraints, tracks to install energy - absorbent barriers, and stringent rules covering the construction of cars so that when a crash does occur the driver doesn't bear the brunt of the impact.

The 38 - year - old driver was on his third of four qualifying laps when he lost control of his No. 18 Honda - powered car and slammed nearly head - on into the outside Turn 2 wall, then spun around and flipped once before coming to a stop on the backstretch.

But when that ran out of fuel, Johansson, Arnoux and Alliot all decamped onto Nelson Piquet's passing Williams, making it four drivers in / on one F1 car.

It is a common site that when a driver wins a race they do a burnout down the front straightaway, but often the celebration causes damage to the rear of a car.

When Jenson Button retired - sorry, I mean when he became a part of McLaren's «innovative three - driver strategy» at the end of 2016, few expected he'd be back in an F1 car so sWhen Jenson Button retired - sorry, I mean when he became a part of McLaren's «innovative three - driver strategy» at the end of 2016, few expected he'd be back in an F1 car so swhen he became a part of McLaren's «innovative three - driver strategy» at the end of 2016, few expected he'd be back in an F1 car so soon.

The larger number has now moved from the flat section in front of the driver on the chassis to the nose section, so you can now see it when the car is straight ahead of you.

Hamilton pitted at the end of the virtual safety car and gained time on Vettel, so when the Ferrari driver exited his stop (on medium tyres, compared to Hamilton's softs) he was side - by - side with the Mercedes.

When we showed that to the drivers, they were not impressed with Andy's speed to get out of the car, but they actually asked to try it before the halo is introduced so one day they will get that training.»

Teams are also not allowed to film anything when there's a session active to avoid clashes with the TV broadcasters, so sadly we won't get any clips of the cars or interviews with drivers while there's still stuff happening on the track.

All of Jim's friends who used to have season tickets gave theirs up when cars ceased to look anything like the ones they drove and the drivers they loved retired or died.

Although all 20 cars got away problem free in the tight first corner, it was a chicane later on in the lap that caused a headache for Formula E when four drivers at the back of the grid all collected each other.

Drivers have a limited amount of them to use during the race, and although they can only use it when they're within a second of the car ahead at the start of the lap, they can do so at whatever part of the track they like, and for three times on that lap.

When you put a load of legendary drivers in touring cars for a one - off exhibition race, things are going to to get frantic

Instead, it'll be open all the time, and when a driver gets within one second of another car, the DRS of the car in front will automatically close until the next braking zone, at which point it'll open up again.

«Scott Dixon, who was my teammate last year, I think he's one of the best drivers in the world and he could give anyone a run for their money in a Formula 1 car - but no one has ever given him a look - in, like when there was a seat going at Mercedes.»

What we wanted to hear more of was the reaction of car No. 5's driver when he tried to pass that Dutch kid in the Red Bull.

The supposed «push» never occurred at all and the contact occurred because Lucas stopped dead in front of Eboue and the ensuing collision was akin to a motor vehicle accident caused when the driver in front breaks suddenly and is hit by a car travelling closely behind.

It's always a special moment when a driver gets to experience an F1 car for the first time and I'm pleased Lucas can make his debut in one of our cars.»

When I was in my teens and early 20s I was called over by men in cars under the pretense of asking me a question but, as I got closer to the driver's side, discovered he was naked from the waist down and masturbating.

Even better, each set is equipped with an ejector button that launches the driver out of the car when the car is hit.