We wanted to prove a point: if you can take a biofuel vehicle to the Pole, you can take one anywhere.
Regardless of how good it looks on paper, a state or big-city agency won't be willing to take a chance on a vehicle with no track record, said Detective Mary Wheat, spokesperson for the Portland, Oregon, police department.
California's XCOR Aerospace also is developing a reusable vehicle that will take a pilot and a front-seat customer to the edge of space -- for pleasure or to transport scientific payloads that would benefit from microgravity.
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At the time of its introduction, the Explorer was a radical new thing--and its functional name implied that you could take the vehicle off-road, a message that Ford wanted to communicate.
The big V-8 engines in some high-performance SUVs now have over four times that much power, enough to take a 4, 000-pound vehicle to 60 miles an hour in under six seconds.
He said it was worrying that people could take their driving test in a smaller vehicle but then buy a van which "is five, six times bigger than the car you've passed your test in, and you can just jump in and drive away, having no experience of driving a van at all".
Experts say consumers ready to buy a particular used car should take two extra steps to vet it first: get a vehicle history report and an inspection by a trusted mechanic.
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Yes, it will take a decade or more to build and mature this electric vehicle infrastructure, but there is at long last a path to break our dependence on foreign oil.
The crude wooden raft can take one vehicle and its passengers at a time.
It enables this otherwise blocky 5, 700-pound vehicle to take off with a blast and just keep on running, reaching 60 mph in 5.9 seconds.
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Take the slippery task of controlling a submersible vehicle, for example.
To this end, HCD-14 Genesis vehicle dynamics take the driver to a new level of involvement, focus, and control.
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The vehicle will take this waste into a controlled burn-up over the Pacific Ocean when it leaves the station sometime from June onwards.
The first two bathrooms and their escorts will take a circuitous route through the borough to Brighton Beach, where plans call for using a military vehicle to tow the trailers out along fortified stretches of sand to the concrete pilings that will be their permanent homes.
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Wahlberg will make a guest appearance to take delivery of his new vehicle.
Earlier this month the BBC apologised after a memory stick containing the personal details of hundreds of children who had applied to take part in a TV show was stolen from a vehicle.
He added that it was more likely the driver would be able to actively operate the vehicle in some places, but once he or she got into a controlled urban environment, the vehicle would take over.
Both Nevada and California require the cars to have a human behind the wheel who can take control of the vehicle at any time.
The company's challenge is to turn the Merlin, an anti-submarine and search-and-rescue vehicle, into a craft that can also take over the Sea King's airborne surveillance and control duties without breaking the bank.
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EU-funded seminars constitute a third form of bad welfare and a waste of talent because in most cases they recycle and disseminate public information and knowledge providing income for both, those who give them and those who take them-often the right political clientele-rather than a vehicle for defusing and disseminating genuine knowledge.
Motorbike collision detection systems developed by Mira warn a rider about an imminent impact and let them take action by slowing down sharply or, in the case of a vehicle travelling in the same direction as the bike, following it while slowing.
Those looking to take a road trip this summer will find great deals on the quintessential family vehicle, the Dodge Grand Caravan minivan.
"The objective of the changes being announced today is to build an organization where people can take ownership of their work as we enter a new phase of growth in vehicle sales, " he said at a news conference in Tokyo.
The front of the vehicle, they thought, looked too "cute" for a take-no-prisoners military truck.
Additionally, the user can take advantage of Scheduled Diagnostics from their Smartphone, setting a monthly diagnostic check of the vehicle.
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In some cases, the GPS also let spouses view the vehicle's location live on a computer or smartphone, or take pictures of who's riding in the front seat.
Here is the setup of these studies: Take people who have just had something very bad happen to them, like a motor vehicle accident or a rape, and within a few hours or a day or two at most, flip a coin and put half these people on a beta blocker and half on an inactive substance that looks the same (i.e. placebo).
But a special purpose vehicle to dish out 440bn euros in bilateral loan guarantees will take longer to set up.
If there can't be a new manned mission from Earth by then, administrators will have to decide whether to take extensive steps to extend the vehicle's certification for the return flight, proceed on a return flight without certification, or de-man the space station by flying back the remaining crew members within the certification period, he said.
For the Ford F-150, the most popular vehicle on American roads, they take out the inevitable V-8, and replace it with a four-cylinder engine, an average of 22-kilowatt-hour battery packs, and two 60-kilowatt electric motors.
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