Inspections include an examination of car trunks and vehicle engine compartments.
The results are then handed from the cloud to the car, where the in-vehicle intent engine from QNX Software Systems performs the remainder of the speech analysis to determine how to act.
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Unlike many electric vehicle battery packs that are positioned in the floor of the vehicle, the Axeon pack has been designed to fit into the vehicle's engine bay in order to maintain ground clearance and wading height for this unique vehicle.
Others reported seeing a black, boxy vehicle with its engine running but no one inside on Clements' street.
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When aimed at another vehicle, it causes that vehicle's engine to stall.
To meet those standards, GM must install smaller battery packs in autos and implement mechanisms that regenerate braking energy and shut down the vehicle's engine when it's idling.
In E-mode, only the 114-hp rear electric motor propels the vehicle and the TDI engine is shut off and decoupled from the drivetrain.
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The additional front-wheel drive called for a newly designed front axle: unlike the series production vehicle with AMG V8 engine, which has a double wishbone axle, the SLS AMG E-CELL features an independent multi-link suspension with pushrod damper struts.
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That technology, once reserved for hybrids, saves fuel by shutting down the engine when the vehicle is stopped.
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The battery can be charged either by external power sources or by the TDI engine while the vehicle is in motion.
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But one of the American army's main areas of research is into devices that can shoot enough electromagnetic energy into a vehicle to shut off its engine.
Justin Rogers, whose van was parked on Stafford Street, said he noticed there was something wrong with his vehicle when he started up the engine.
With the exception of the Panamera GTS, models with PDK also offer a coasting function in which the clutches open in overrun allowing the engine to idle and the vehicle to coast freely.
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Meanwhile, the feds' fuel-economy administrators are currently operating at a dead run trying to keep up with a host of new, highly digitized fuel-saving technologies, such as "Eco" throttle mapping and stop-start (the engine cuts out as the vehicle coasts or stops), which were practically invented to hack the EPA testing cycle.
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Ahead of next year's challenge, the team are planning to upgrade the engine in their energy-efficient vehicle.
To provide some form of throttle to allow acceleration and deceleration, the vehicle's designers added the EJ200 jet engine.
They can test out the newly upgraded Terrain Response, a sophisticated system that modifies engine, transmission, differentials, vehicle dynamics and air suspension on the Range Rover to suit selected conditions.
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What the sophomoric spot doesn't mention--perhaps because there isn't a handy double entendre--is that much of the sport utility vehicle's swagger comes from its macho engine option, a 340hp, 5.7-liter V8 Hemi.
This design, ideal for city driving's stops and starts, allows the diesel engine to be shut off when the vehicle is stopped or decelerating.
Spetter is a tuning maestro, an expert in the vehicle hack, one of a growing cadre of engine reprogrammers in demand all over the country.
This hacking has been demonstrated by security consultants who unlocked the doors of a car and started the engine without a key or touching the vehicle itself.
One offers a search engine, the other offers a sports vehicle.
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To measure the frequency of repairs for a particular vehicle, it compared the percentage of reported check engine failures for that model to its share of all 136 million 2002-2012 model-year vehicles on the road.
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However, new six-speed gearboxes should help, by matching the engine's speed more closely to the vehicle's road speed.
But BMW knew an engine did less and less to differentiate a vehicle.
Option one earmarked Warwick, Bidford, Studley and Brinklow for closure with Bedworth losing a fire engine which will be replaced by a smaller vehicle.
Once the engine is running, whatever torquing and vibrations sneak past the engine mounts dwindle to almost nothing in the vehicle's huge, attenuating structure.
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Once the battery charge reaches a certain level it operates like a typical hybrid-powered vehicle, with the 2.0-liter gasoline engine doing most of the work.
Because Nissan LEAF does not have an internal combustion engine, Nissan has incorporated an "Approaching Vehicle Sound for Pedestrians" system, which is designed to alert pedestrians that a vehicle is approaching.
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For example, if 20 percent of check engine light problems reported came from a certain vehicle but it made up only 10 percent of the vehicle population it would have an index of 2.00 (20 percent divided by 10 percent).
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