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It's the extra heat released when the water vapor condenses that is like a driver flooring a car's accelerator.
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Once Mr. Guillen, the Tesla Motors Ltd. manager in charge of readying the Model S for launch by July, gets some running room, he hits the electric car's accelerator.
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The novel is lubricated with a plethora of pithy observations, and it speeds along like a car with the proverbial accelerator pressed to the floorboards.
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As it happens, Toyota later announced that it is planning to install as standard equipment a brake override system in which the brake will stop the car even if the accelerator is pressed simultaneously.
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Indeed, more than half are derived from driveline parts--the connections that set a car in motion when the accelerator is pressed.
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When you ease off the accelerator, the car is able to use its rolling energy to pump charge back into its battery.
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He uses an automatic car in which he pulls a hand lever to control the accelerator and brake pedals.
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Police who believe a car to be stolen can ask an OnStar operator to disable its accelerator, while leaving the steering and brakes in working order.
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Replacing RPMs on the left is a meter that lets you know how much power the car is pumping out, relating to how far you press the accelerator.
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You have to know how to ease your car around the track, braking at just the right time and flooring the accelerator at other moments.
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With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
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