Mark Riccobono, the first blind driver who drove our vehicle on the Daytona International Speedway, is a better driver than I am -- at least with this vehicle.
Continental's current highly automated vehicle is designed to always have a driver monitoring the vehicle behind the wheel, unlike a completely automated vehicle.
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As the soldiers approached the vehicle, the driver detonated the bomb, killing himself and four soldiers, Grimsley said.
She waved a well-manicured hand at them and climbed into her vehicle as a driver held her door.
Hundreds of local authorities have been banned from accessing the Driver Vehicle and Licensing Agency (DVLA) database for not using it properly.
The wildlife officer chased the vehicle and the driver opened fire on the officer before abandoning the truck, a statement from the agency said.
Norfolk County Council's highways service said a gritter came off the road in the early hours at Griston, causing damage to the vehicle but the driver was unhurt.
"Wiltshire Trading Standards would pass on the details of offending vehicles to the DVLA (Driver Vehicle Licensing Agency), which could result in prosecutions through the magistrates courts, " the council spokesman added.
Parking Minder: If the driver happens to forget where they parked the car, the Parking Minder function helps find it by sending the location of the vehicle to the driver's phone.
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The fourth annual vintage-flavored on and off-road rally is scheduled to begin on Saturday, April 27 with a pre-event technical inspection, vehicle display and driver's meeting all taking place at the historic bullring in Mexicali, Baja, Mexico.
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Rollaway deaths, backover deaths and trunk entrapment can all be significantly mitigated by teaching them not to play in or around cars, and to move away from a vehicle when a driver gets in and when the car is started.
Regarding the capability of the blind, I believe that with the right nonvisual user interfaces, once we can deliver all the information needed to safely operate the vehicle to the driver, the blind can perform as well as, or possibly even better than the sighted.
The focus of autonomous vehicle research is on developing intelligent vehicles, or artificial intelligence for cars in some sense, while the focus of the blind driver challenge vehicle is developing methods to convey a vast amount of information to the driver through nonvisual means, fast enough and accurately enough for safe driving.
Fri, vehicle entered by smashing back driver's side window, also unlocked vehicle entered, nothing missing at this time.
In 2011, 3, 331 people were killed in crashes involving a distracted driver, and 387, 000 people were injured in motor vehicle crashes involving a distracted driver, according to Department of Transportation statistics.
Coupled with advances in vehicle sensor technology and driver assistance systems, such a system would enable safer roads.
To this end, HCD-14 Genesis vehicle dynamics take the driver to a new level of involvement, focus, and control.
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But critics suggest this may be difficult as records at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) are only 90% accurate.
Vehicle repairs put the driver at the mercy of the repair shop.
Three Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) staff were dismissed in Wales in 2011 for misuse of social media, the BBC has learned.
The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency in Swansea had previously dismissed three workers for making "inappropriate comments" about the DVLA, a colleague or customers on social media.
Nine people have been injured by the letter bombs, including four workers who were hurt when a bomb exploded at the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority centre in Swansea.
Her team will spend a week to 10 days looking at the bridge, talking to the truck driver whose vehicle hit it, and examining maintenance documents and previous accident reports.
As part of the alliance with Pecan Street, OnStar will make its smart grid interface available so researchers can develop new services and gather data on driver and vehicle behavior.
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Washington (CNN) -- Federal authorities say they've launched an investigation into the 2012 Hyundai Elantra after a vehicle owner claimed the driver-side airbag improperly deployed during a traffic accident, resulting in a severe cut to his ear.
The sensors we use for the blind driver challenge vehicle are almost identical to the ones we use for autonomous vehicles, and we have used for this project many of the technologies we have developed for our autonomous cars for the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.
In England, Scotland and Wales, patients with angina, valvular heart disease, a heart murmur or heart failure do not have to tell the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) and can continue to drive a car a month after an episode as long as their doctor says they are fit to.
With help from signals from roadside markers and traffic lights, in-car computers will be able to determine if a car should slam on the brakes, alert the driver to a passing vehicle in the blind spot or slow for a red light up ahead that another driver isn't heeding.
Cox gave the police a false name and description when asked who the driver of the vehicle was.
Detectives said they had now traced a driver and a vehicle suspected of being involved in a crash.
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