Sentences with phrase «with automated cars»

1958: GM and RCA experiment with automated cars, using wire buried in pavement and magnetic pickup coils in cars.

The ad, first reported Sunday by the Times Union, comes as ride - hailing apps like Uber have pushed forward with automated cars, which various degrees of success and failure.

Not exact matches

According to documents filed with the state of California, Waymo's human drivers had to take control from the automated system (called «disengagement») once for every 5,000 miles its cars drove in 2016.

For example, Henry Ford automated car manufacturing with the development of the assembly line.

By 2025, Honda plans to come up with cars with «level 4» standard automated driving functions, meaning they can drive themselves on highways and city roads under most situations.

With the competition in self - driving cars heating up, it makes sense the company would pick CMU as a partner, which has designed several automated vehicles to compete in DARPA challenges.

With top talent and an abundance of resources at its disposal, Alphabet has already made automated homes and self - driving cars a reality.

Elon Musk's electric car company Tesla has stopped production on their already delayed Model 3 sedan and has replaced their automated production robots with human workers.

Taking principles from car manufacturing, APRIL links proven state of the art cooking and materials handling technologies with automated robotic ingredient loading.

It permits, for instance, automated, or self - driving, car makers to get another one - year window in order to test their vehicles on New York roads, with various safety - related requirements; it comes after an Uber automated car killed a pedestrian in Arizona.

Many countries are already experimenting with automated toll collection devices, which are able to identify cars as they speed past and can later bill drivers for the tolls they owe.

«When in spring 2017 we, the researchers, taught the automated car Marilyn to drive, this autumn it has been teaching us on how to make Martti such that it can get along with its spouse, and follow GPS and positioning information on its route.

No doubt we will continue to have robots designed specifically to build cars on automated assembly lines, erect buildings with minimal human assistance (see «The Whole - House Machine,» page 60), or even jog across the front lawn to pick up ournewspaper.

«Test methods for traditionally driven cars are something like having a doctor take a patient's blood pressure or heart rate, while testing for automated vehicles is more like giving someone an IQ test,» said Ding Zhao, assistant research scientist in the U-M Department of Mechanical Engineering and co-author of the new white paper, along with Peng.

And automated washing equipment borrowed from the agricultural greenhouse industry — essentially automated water sprayers with brushes like those in a car wash — scan clean the glass house that shields the solar thermal equipment from the wind and dust.

Along with scenes straight from an action flick (car chases, breaking plate glass windows and the threat of being crushed), these rodents are attacked by automated machines with whirling blades and other deadly appendages.

AI comprises of technologies such as smart bots, automated cars, and voice recognition features, when embedded with eLearning, workplace efficiency is increased.

It's too early in the investigation of Joshua Brown's tragic death after his Tesla Model S collided with a semi-truck in Williston, Florida, to determine exactly what role the car's Autopilot mode played in the crash, though it's probably not too early to say that the Silicon Valley automaker has set back automated technology by at least a year or two.

Around 70 per cent of 360 buyers opted to have their cars equipped with the «F1» automated manual gearbox, which although fine on the move and excellent on track, can make low - speed manoeuvring a little tricky until you get the hang of it.

Along with camouflaged versions of the new E-Class (like the spy shots we've already seen), the video also shows a few of the car's new technology features in action, such as gesture controls for the Comand infotainment system and automated lane changes as part of the Distronic suite of semi-autonomous driving features.

The old car, when equipped with an automated manual, changed gears with slam - bang eventfulness, while the 2015 Lamborghini Huracán seems to mesh its cogs instantly in a pool of gravy.

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Neat details like a headliner with a printed graphic and optional $ 1000 matte gray paint (don't drive through an automated car wash) add nothing when driving a winding, mountain road.

At the front, distinctive ultra-slim headlights could represent the future of Peugeot's light signature — and also contain cameras working in conjunction with the car's automated technologies.

Until recently, the single - clutch automated manual was preferred to the dual - clutch design for high - performance cars because it shifted quicker and coped with greater torque loads, plus it offered the same manual gear selection with shift paddles and the same mode for automatic shifting.

The sense of disconnection continues with the transmission, which, despite being the best - ever Ferrari automated manual, removes the driver even further from the process of controlling the car's progress.

Imagine densely packed cities and suburbs thick with Google - developed, fully automated cars zipping silently alongside more conventional vehicles that become driverless at the touch of a button.

From there options differ, with standard cars sending drive to the front wheels through a five - speed manual transmission (as driven here), but others offering a five - speed automated manual, while range - topping cars pair the five - speed manual with Allgrip four - wheel drive.

In this particular Mazda 6 Grand Touring car, there are six airbags, whiplash - reducing seat headrests, anti-lock brakes with electronic brakeforce distribution, brake assist, traction control, stability control, blind - spot warning, cross-traffic alert, radar - controlled cruise control, lane - departure warning, automated city braking, forward obstruction warning, and high - beam warning.

The ForTwo is available with either a six - speed dual - clutch transmission or a five - speed manual — given the lackluster performance of the previous car's single - clutch automated manual, we're hoping that the manual will be offered for sale in the U.S. this time around.

As with all standard automateds, the Easytronic car has only two pedals (accelerator pedal and brake pedal) but it does have a clutch, though this is inbuilt into the car and is electrohydraulic.

«The Ford Fusion Hybrid automated vehicle represents a vital step toward our vision for the future of mobility,» said Bill Ford, executive chairman of Ford Motor Co. «We see a future of connected cars that communicate with each other and the world around them to make driving safer, ease traffic congestion and sustain the environment.

This suits the car well, and is much better than the slow - witted, clunky ETG automated manual that's still offered with the 1.2 PureTech 82 model.

An automated manual transmission requires the same sort of action, however since drivers don't have to use the clutch and gear shift themselves, they often kept their right foot planted flat on the throttle — as you do in a car with an automatic transmission.

Automated emergency braking with pedestrian detection, formerly a $ 125 option, is standard; the car can brake itself when traveling at speeds up to 50 mph, although pedestrian braking cuts out at 37 mph.

The M3 coupe's 3.2 - liter motor is good for 333 horsepower and 262 lb - ft of torque, and while an SMG automated manual transmission was available, we recommend sticking with the less - troublesome six - speed manual gearbox that was standard with the car.

Acura looks closer to fully autonomous cars with new sensors in its automated development vehicle

The 12C's SSG is a development on the automated and sequential manual gearboxes with paddle shifts that proliferate in the car market today.

Special orders are not possible, as with most competing cars in this segment, even though the Hyundai plant is nearby, highly automated, and flexible.

Some automakers have begun bundling this capability with systems that can brake a car to a full stop, or that provide a limited amount of automated steering to keep the car centered in its lane.

A seven - speed dual - clutch automated manual transmission guides the eight - cylinder engine on its sojourns to the land of 9,000 rpm, and you'll see the other side of 60 - mph in under 3.4 seconds with your foot to the floor of this fast RWD car.

Giving the automated parking system a whirl, I trawled a street lined with cars until the Mini Cooper's LCD showed that it had found a suitable parking spot.

There is a call button in the car with an automated pick - up to help you find business listings, but when I tried it, it seemed the voice recognition could not understand me.

Mercedes - Benz couples the car's seven - speed automated manual transmission with a twin - turbocharged 5.5 - liter V - 8 engine making 577 horsepower and a monstrous 664 pound - feet of torque.

For the Lupo 3L, with an automated manual gearbox and clutch, the engine stops four seconds after the car becomes stationary with the driver's foot on the brake pedal.

BTW - would a rear - drive car with either a: 1) manual transmission; 2) automated manual, i.e., MDCT; or 3) modern 8 - sp auto (such as on Lexus ISF) normally have about a 20 % drivetrain loss?

These include adaptive cruise control, lane departure prevention, forward collision warning and automated braking to mitigate collisions with pedestrians or other cars.

With automated features increasingly becoming a staple of modern cars, cruise control may not sound like the most modern car component.

Ford equips the Edge with its «kick» tailgate, letting drivers kick a foot under the back of the car to activate the automated tailgate.

The latter are linked to the 4C's dual - clutch automated manual transmission, with further points of gearbox interaction found in the form of paddle shifters mounted to the rear of the car's tiller.