But road warriors may find the device a handy and reliable way to keep in touch.
The battery is an affordable, safe and reliable way to store energy for a cloudy day.
But all the studies merely make observations in existing databases--the least reliable way to conduct an experiment.
Furthermore, a car is supposed to move people from A to B in a comfortable, reliable way.
Engaging with the brand is also the most reliable way for management to remain alert to brand subtleties.
It will be collected via the electricity bill - the most reliable way for collecting taxes in Greece.
Being selfless is often the most reliable way to getting what you want.
The dual-component system utilizing inductive charging offers EV drivers a convenient, universal and reliable way to charge their vehicles.
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Yet the foreigners who have flocked here to invest in mines and farms need a reliable way to get around.
Unfortunately, the only truly reliable way to avoid a hangover is to either drink in moderation or just abstain altogether.
What hasn't recovered is the faith of millions of Americans that stocks are a reliable way to build wealth over time.
But as Kissinger hints, the most reliable way to become engaged in a war is to desperately try to avoid one.
Network Computing gave the KR1 a try, and found it to be an easy, reliable way to create a quick-and-dirty ad-hoc network.
But missiles are the quickest and most reliable way to deliver them.
"Investment in energy efficiency and renewables is the only reliable way to guarantee energy security, " said Silvia Hermann, from Friends of the Earth Europe.
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Tales of runny noses and fever on Twitter do not offer a reliable way to track disease, he argues, as there is no way of testing their accuracy.
There is a big caveat here: Surveys are not necessarily the most reliable way to measure behavior people often say they do one thing when they actually do something else.
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We also have a responsibility as a nation to provide our people with -- and our businesses -- with the fastest, most reliable way to move goods and information.
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The only reliable way to tell the difference is to take samples from the burn patterns and test them in a laboratory for the presence of flammable or combustible liquids.
Until now, the only reliable way to obtain it has been to send a person up in a plane or a helicopter with a camera to get it, which is expensive.
He said the airport received about 10 foreign aircraft per day and hoped the rebrand would increase passenger numbers, but he had no reliable way of measuring how successful the rebrand was.
Though this theory has taken its hits over the last year, no one has proved that there is a reliable way to beat the average return from the stock market over time.
Its one thing to build out the production side of things but finding a reliable way to transport the energy to those who can use and pay for it is another issue all together.
Indeed, all kinds of insurance would be much cheaper if companies had a reliable way of discovering, for example, that a man applying for car insurance in Mumbai had been convicted of drink-driving in Delhi.
It looks fancy and may come in handy on occasion, but didn't feel to us like a very reliable way of picking a good, sharp image -- we'd still use the more traditional best shot mode for that.
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We would love to claim that we have a reliable way to locate the future Apples and Googles of the world before they grow, but the successful strategies that we uncovered do not frequently suggest purchasing high-growth companies.
And the only reliable way to make their case is, surely, to conduct a proper study, with children randomly allocated to teachers who use computers and teachers who use other methods, including the cheapest of all: chalk and talk.
"He did so without taking reasonable steps to ensure that the advertisements were clear, fair and not misleading and despite having reason to doubt that the Spanish firms would deal with UK consumers in an honest and reliable way, " the FSA said.
What Colin Humphreys and his colleagues at Cambridge have come up with is a reliable way to deposit gallium nitride on much cheaper silicon wafers, which they estimate could cut production costs to a tenth of what they are at the moment.
In the late '70s, when 24-track recording was possible but there was no reliable way to automate mixing, mixing records was a live performance, with the producer, the engineer and half the band called in to push faders up and down as the track was bounced to the master tape.
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