He argues that the Indo-European proto-language diversified after the invention of the wheel, about 5, 000 years ago.
Thus the electric car is harvesting in terms of well-to-wheel miles only about 27% of the original fossil fuel energy, so not that much better than the standard car running on petrol or diesel.
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"This moves the focus away from how much a wheel loader costs to a discussion about how much value a wheel loader can bring to my business operation, " says Richard Lavin, Caterpillar's group president for Asia.
"I cannot resist a first reply, which is that not everything is known, as yet, about the wheel, either the mathematics of it or the physics, " Hawkins wrote.
"One of the fantastic things about the wheel is that it's open all year so it stretches out the season for Brighton and Hove, " said planning consultant Ian Coomber.
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He recently designed a program for Chrysler to teach new salesmen about the complexities of four-wheel-drive Jeeps, and he is talking with Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass. about a game that will help students design their own majors.
But the digital gauges are functional and allow the flexibility to display more information, such as navigation directions or information about the all-wheel-drive system.
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But Alice needs to be careful about getting behind the wheel.
All-wheel drive usually reduces gas mileage by about 2 mpg while a manual transmission can improve fuel economy by 1 to 2 mpg.
"The good news is I'm not sort of getting behind the wheel here, feeling like the wheels are about to come off, " Reilly said of the new position.
The program is expected to generate about 2 million hours behind the wheel of Ford vehicles for college-age drivers, many of whom would never have considered buying a Ford before.
How about a Volvo S60 with all-wheel drive, or an X-Type Jaguar ?
The most striking thing about it is the location of the balance wheel.
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Of course, the reason to rejoice if you love to drive sports sedans is that--at least in the case of BMW, Mercedes and Nissan--we're talking about cars that started life with rear-wheel not front-wheel drive.
NHTSA's encouraging, but also cautious, policy statement reflects the concerns of safety regulators about allowing drivers to take their hands off the wheel.
"About 90% of the work is clay thrown on a wheel, " says Mr. Massoni.
The Belfast Titanic Society had originally raised concerns about the impact on the memorial and the anniversary if the wheel's stay was extended.
Its illuminated buttons and large color LCD display steals attention from just about anything else on your coffee table while its white scroll wheel steals from something else.
At the end of the day collision-related texting is no more comic than a drunk behind the wheel on a dark road late at night, when someone you love is about to cross his path.
Just a pity, they added, he doesn't use that fact, and put his shoulder to the wheel a bit, fight on the things that really matter instead of faffing about with nonsense like the devolution of policing.
About the same amount of horsepower used by 3-4 OTR 18 wheel diesel rigs.
Actually, because of suspension changes to the 500e (it weighs about a quarter-ton more than a regular 500), the wheel clearances look larger, which make the 15-inch wheels seem even more crazy-diminutive and precious.
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We hit it, the steering wheel went dead and the car began to glide, ghosting toward the shoulder, which looked about four feet wide and well below the surface of the new blacktop it was a big drop-off of five or six inches and the shoulder was red clay drenched with rain.
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"We are just about to take a piece of rock and, maybe, etch it into the first wheel, " Patrick Chung, a partner at venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates.
Let's say that you feel bad about running over a small animal late at night, while you were feeling tired at the wheel.
To be fair, with legislation like SOPA and PIPA floating about, tech companies in particular have a lot to lose if they fall asleep at the wheel.
Its adaptive air suspension, full-time all-wheel drive, locking differentials and extra-low range all combine to make the Range Rover capable of going just about anywhere you'd think to try and drive, and to conquer some slopes you couldn't ascend without a climbing rope.
Thankfully there is a suite of configurable parameters that can be changed on the wheel itself, things like total force feedback effect, the linearity of motion of the wheel, the number of degrees of rotation you'd like on offer (up to 900), and about a half-dozen other minutia.
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