Sentences with phrase «which slows the car»

He spun off and into the gravel, which slowed the car down sufficiently but didn't stop it from gradually sliding onto its side.

There are many other driver - assistance systems available, from adaptive cruise control, which slows your car down to match the speeds of slower cars ahead, to automatic parking systems, which take much of the stress out of parallel parking.

Not exact matches

On one hand, the slow lane for self - driving cars isn't totally unexpected, as the Trump administration continues to chart its course in major transportation policy debates and decides which federal programs to keep or replace.

Oh, one other prediction, which probably won't happen this year, but is inevitable: the media (and public) will freak out the first time a robot car accidentally kills someone, with calls to slow development inevitably following.

Along with these test mishaps and the slow progress of the technology, there has also been a clear tension between the ATG team, which is focused on cars, and the Otto team, which is focused on trucks.

Not only is the Model S able to track the angle in which neighboring vehicles are traveling, it's also able to simultaneously track individual actions of five cars — up to six cars in slow moving traffic conditions — as they maneuver between lanes.

Daniel Ricciardo wonders whether it's worth it, and thinks it'd be better to go back to slightly slower cars which can race each other better.

Having such a slow driver in such a quick car would put him right in the pack, which would make for plenty of hilarious wheel - to - wheel battles and comedy spins — good for getting TV air - time and therefore great for sponsors.

To its rear is attached a parachute which helps slow the car.

Watching the slow motion car crash that is Wenger in charge of Arsenal over the past 10 years has has spread to the fans who have become institutionalised into thinking that the sop of a «football / technical director» is change when it is simply a tactic to delay the one thing Arsenal critically needs which is a new manager.

Being too tall means extra weight, which obviously can mean less flexibility for teams to move ballast around the car, therefore leading to slower lap times - something Marcus Ericsson knows all about.

It proved to be a «defect on the air line between the turbo and the intercooler» which caused the No. 5 car to slow, allowing the No. 2 car of Jani into the lead.

Following a disastrous weekend in Canada which ended with him visiting fans in the grandstands following yet another breakdown, Alonso said that his car was so slow on the straights that the speed difference between him and the other cars was dangerous.

Andre Lotterer is having to adapt to driving a car which is much, much slower than what he's been used to

However Mercedes decided to go with Valtteri Bottas and Wehrlein was left with Sauber which, following the collapse of Manor, meant he would once again spend a year in the slowest car on the grid.

Coulthard revealed that the car felt like it was understeering in slow corners and this was because Newey had designed a car in which aerodynamic grip superceded mechanical grip.

The GT300 class is made up of the GT3 cars which populate so many series around the world, and the championships own GT300 cars, which are kinda like slower versions of the GT500 cars.

During the races they have to deal with traffic from the slower GT300 class, which features GT3 cars and Japan's own JAF - GT category.

A couple of had to make a couple of changes which made the car a bit slower than it had been in its Group C heyday, but this was offset by the massive advantage of being able to run a much bigger fuel tank than any of the cars in the Prototype class.

McLaren's pit stops were on the slow side, which suggests more care was being taken after the unsafe release of Stoffel Vandoorne's car in practice.

The tether webbing, which is located on the back upper part of the car seat, works to absorb forces and to slow the forward movement of your child by staged release of the tether webbing.

I have a lot of stitches in my arm (which dragged along the ground outside the car — the trauma surgeon says that the braking slowed us enough to save me from having it ripped off) and on my face and bruising all over.

This infant car seat stroller combo also has a unique Click & Go System, which means the car seat and stroller fit together easily and quickly, so you never have to slow down.

It has an energy absorbing versa - tether which anchors the top of the car seat and slows the release of the forward movement

Making the city more walkable and accessible to cyclists can help make alternatives to cars and other carbon - dioxide emitting vehicles more appealing, and slow down the rate at which our climate is changing.»

In simple terms, a car reduces the pressure drop behind you — which slows you down — while you're riding.

And now the technology is to the point where you have devices — I've driven in them; they're amazing — and these [have] cruise control which have radar in the front, which allows you stay a certain distance behind the car in front of you, it will speed up and slow down.

Interestingly, the story states that passengers would comfortably be «flying» at 30 to 40 miles per hour; contrast that with the last line of the «Morse's Telegraph» story in the same issue, which described railroad cars as «slow and tedious.»

Obstacles consist of a series of gates, some of them fake which can be easily destroyed and others that are far thicker, slowing the car down when hit.

Hooked up the cables, waited about 30 seconds, and it fired right up (though the first revolution was a little slow, which I've come to expect when jump - starting a car.

If safety is a primary concern, it's all great stuff to have except for one glaring flaw: the adaptive cruise control cuts out once you slow to 15 mph, leaving you at the mercy of the laws of physics, which will send you slowly coasting into the car in front unless you're paying close attention.

It's 0 - 62 time of 6.6 sec is a little slower than its rivals, which is disappointing considering we have to come expect super quick acceleration times from cars with dual - clutch transmissions and launch control.

With less mass in the wheel to be spun up to speed and then dragged back down, there's less energy going to waste every time the car speeds up or slows down, which can mean miles (or tens of miles) more to a charge or a tank.

Feedback is at a race - car level and so immediate you find yourself with what feels like extra time to react, which in turn allows you to lean on the car hard using throttle and steering adjustments that are slower than you'd expect.

We got a taste of the car on Bedford Autodrome's long, flowing south west layout, which packs a mix of slow, medium and fast corners, virtually no elevation, and a smooth surface - all ideal for exploiting an unfamiliar car.

Of course it can be made to understeer if you don't listen to the howling tyres (it comes as standard with Hankooks, which are brilliant in the wet but lack response and mid corner grip in the dry), but if you turn the car in slightly slower and then commit to the throttle you feel the sport diff sending power to the outside rear tyre.

Frankly, we didn't notice anything exceptional about the cornering in comparison to, say, an Audi A7 or Fisker Karma; instead, the most evident characteristic is the aggressively calibrated energy recapture system, which chewed back at the road, rapidly slowing the car as soon as our right foot lifted.

The electric Smart's advantage is its single - speed transmission, which means that it doesn't suffer from the slow and jerky shifts of the standard car's automated - manual gearbox.

Other drivers would speed toward the 4C, slow down just behind the car's rear quarter panels, and camp out in neighboring lanes as they snapped iPhone pictures, which sucked since the 4C's absolutely enormous rear blind spots would render even full - size SUVs invisible.

The Civic's CVT makes the sedan slow to respond, so the car feels clumsy, which is a disappointment compared to Honda Civics of old.

The car is slow but carries momentum confidently, which is more than can be said for how it brakes, diving and skidding as the thin - rimmed steering wheel shakes.

After 135 miles in test car number three, the trip computer reports the equivalent of 147 mpg, an average speed of 23 mph (which, even for Switzerland, is very slow), and 127 miles of range remaining.

Technically it is possible to drive an Atom V8 faster than any other car on the road, but common sense precludes such antics, which leaves you squirting, slowing and squirting again.

Lincoln will then discontinue the MKS, which perennially has been one of the slowest - selling cars in its segment.

It's available with a number of safety features including traffic jam assist, which can autonomously drive the car at speeds up to 40 MPH in slow moving traffic.

A further innovation is a so - called haptic accelerator pedal, which vibrates when sensors detect a speed differential to a slowing car ahead to prompt the driver to slow down for added efficiency.

Volvo's available Intellisafe safety suite includes a multitude of driver aids, including collision mitigation with auto braking, adaptive cruise control, steering assist, lane - keep assist, blind - spot warning, and run off - road mitigation, which senses if the car has left the road, and takes measures to slow and steer back onto the road, or if the car gets airborne, there's an energy - absorbing function incorporated into the seats to help reduce the likelihood of spine injury upon landing.

You have to try and stay out of trouble which will be very tough, especially with slower prototype and LMPC cars not knowing what to do at the start or where to go.

On the model we tested, which retails for about $ 65,000 (base price is $ 57,000), there wasn't an option for adaptive cruise control (slowing for the car in front of you), lane departure prevention (gently nudging you back into a lane), or even blind spot indicators.

With the car unloaded, Audi quotes a zero - to -60-mph time of 11.4 seconds, which would make it one of the slowest accelerating vehicles on the market, according to a road - test list published in Road & Track magazine.