Car wheels make a drumming, roaring sound on cobblestones that adds to the clamour of the city.
"The water was up over the top of car wheels, and it comes at such a force down the road, it's dangerous, " she added.
And so that's real-time information to you, as a driver, and to your car, to the wheels of a car that will get you out of a bad situation.
During his captivity, his only comforts were a Hot Wheels car and other treats passed to him by officers.
The firm repeatedly leapt off one horse and on to another but the crucial jump came from the mid-1960s, when it was building up a business making the driveshafts that connect car engines to wheels.
"Sometimes the car was on four wheels, sometimes on three, sometimes even two, " he told reporters after the race.
Getaround lets car owners rent their wheels to a community of vetted drivers by the hour, day or week using their smartphones.
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The rule merely says no more than 60 kilowatts of power may be transmitted to or from the car's back wheels, and only 400 kilojoules of energy can be stored for use each lap.
They roll on two wheels, which are aligned like the front two wheels of a car, not like a bicycle.
The wheels of the car were gently turning, the steam was rising.
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But when television footage of the car tilting on to two wheels added drama to photographs of the overturned vehicle, German customers began to cancel their orders.
On the other side the electrons return via the second electrode, having passed through the coils of an electric motor that drives the wheels of the car.
The other main joint venture, Ford-led Ecostar, takes the machinery from Stuttgart and fits it into electric motors, transmission and control equipment to make a fuel-cell engine that can turn the wheels of a car or a bus.
He picked up planks and stakes from beside the track and flung them under the front wheels, but the car was going so fast that it crushed the wood to nothing and sped up even more.
And nearly all automakers with in-car computers offer buttons on their steering wheels.
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As the energy levels rise, the car feels steadily less sure on its wheels, and on a less-than-perfect two-lane country road the iQ gets downright bouncy.
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Meanwhile, there's some code in the stability-control system dubbed Agile Handling Assist, through which the car, actively braking one of more wheels, helps drivers hold their line with smaller steering inputs.
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Honda's Puyo car looks a little like a marshmallow on wheels.
Carmakers can only speculate about how the digital crash victims will change car design: more forgiving cabins, steering wheels that slide into a safer position automatically.
Other most-wanted wheels range from a relative economy car from Volvo, to the first luxury-brand hybrid from Lexus, to an all-wheel drive Audi, the carmaker s fastest to date.
Rising public transport fares, cuts to bus services and the access to out-of-town discount stores a car allows, now make your own four wheels a necessity in all places except London.
The wheels spun furiously, but the car hardly moved.
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Car thieves in Mpumalanga escape from jail behind the wheels of the evidence against them.
The radical diversion comes from the technology the City Car hopes to employ, rethinking everything from the wheels upwards.
Clients are required to complete a car maintenance class and donate three volunteer hours to Wheels of Success per month.
With Winter mode and traction control reactivated, the wheels stuttered for a second before the car got its footing and took off with ease.
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It's a fine point, to be sure, but if I'm buying this car I'm getting the 19-inch wheels and tires, simply to minimize that effect.
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