Vehicles Quotations

Some people say hybrid vehicles such as the Prius are only a bridge to the future ... but we think it could be a long bridge and a very sturdy one. There are many more gains we can achieve with hybrids.

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States.

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being.

We have lost one shuttle for every 57 flights and that is not a good ratio. I do believe we need to continue space flights, but maybe we can follow the example of the Russians and use unmanned vehicles to transport hardware into space.

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

The whole idea that vehicles in the future will communicate with each other is a really big deal. It's a big deal for safety... and it's an opportunity to engage the automobile in the work of ensuring collision avoidance.

For much of Toyota's history, we have ensured the quality and reliability of our vehicles by placing a device called an andon cord on every production line - and empowering any team member to halt production if there's an assembly problem. Only when the problem is resolved does the line begin to move again.

I think it is important also to recognize that our Customs border protection officers who secure our borders and conduct inspections of people in vehicles and cargo are also facing staffing shortages.

I ride many different cars. Let's say I would drive 200 different vehicles in a year, so it's rather difficult to say which car or what car I ride. I love cars.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.

Our dream is to see Geely vehicles driven all over the world.

The environmental effects of the automobile are well known: motor vehicles cause, for example, as much as 75 percent of the noise and 80 percent of the air pollution in our cities, and the industry must face mounting pressure from environmentalists.

Hard systems are everything we're using right now - computers, phones, planes, the clothes you're wearing, the room you're in. Everything there involves 100% use of technology and expertise to make it, and nothing we make - including space exploration vehicles and so on - is complex. Everything we make is complicated. Nothing is self-renewing.

And almost half of American oil consumption is for motor vehicles.

Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

With Zipcar, consumers avoid the upfront cost of buying a car, not to mention gas, insurance, and repairs. Plus, they reduce the number of polluting vehicles on the road. Suddenly the planet-smart carless option is also the convenient money-saving option.

The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.

I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.

Those who do not need to provide or have not built the vehicles of their own sustenance can afford to be less hardworking and driven than those who carry the burden of necessity.

One of the challenges with unmanned vehicles is how do you manage it and control it to make sure it does what you want it to do?

On our first day of driving as we were heading out of Massachusetts, it was great to see other vehicles on the road also carrying down relief supplies. There was a caravan of 12 to 15 ambulances heading south out of New York state.

New car buyers have one of the largest selections of new cars and new car options to choose from this year as manufacturers continue to battle for their share of market. And we should see steady sales in the Gulf States area, as local residents continue to replace the vehicles that were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

No aeroplane you've ever gotten into had less than thousands of flights before they took their first passenger. Because vehicles are unsafe at first.

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

No one could have imagined 30 years ago that vehicles categorized as trucks would be the most common passenger vehicles on the road today. It's amazing what the auto companies can do. They have found lots of innovative ways of meeting the letter, but beating the spirit, of regulations.

Non-essential travel will be ended, idling of vehicles will be limited as much as possible and air conditioning will not be used, ... The point of all these things is to have some measurable impact in the amount of gasoline and diesel fuel consumed by city vehicles.

One major addition is that vehicles, and even creatures, will be present within levels that aren't 'vehicle' levels. Players will be able to enter/exit or mount/dismount the vehicle or creature at will and use it however they want. The player will now have the opportunity to enable and use vehicles and creatures to further their progress or to just to explore and have fun within the level they are playing.

None of these vehicles are abandoned. Many leave them here in the winter and then take them out during the season when they can use them. They pay us to store them here during the winter.

One thing we know how to do at Ford is to make great vehicles that help people. So far, we've identified more than 165 trucks, vans and SUVs to offer the relief effort for as long as they're needed.

Obviously, I was concerned because we were running out of time, and running out of vehicles to amend.

Obviously, this was the tallest building in town. I'm guessing it was six or seven stories tall. It had a massive head house where it picked up the grain. There was a pit outside where vehicles dumped grain. In the middle of the building was a big elevator that lifted the grain to the top of the structure and then moved it to the proper storage areas. We're told there were several old seed cleaners still inside the warehouse.

If we're just experiencing some minor snow covering secondary roads, we'll switch several officers to our severe weather vehicles. The remainder will stay in their standard vehicles and handle service calls as usual.

The plan lacks a clear statement of how Ford is going to get its labor and design costs in line with its Japanese competitors. Lacking that, Ford will not be able to offer vehicles that are competitive in price, quality and content.

When you can price much higher that means you can put a lot more content into the vehicles and can reinforce that brand equity by putting out exceptional products.

We need citizens who may need assistance in evacuations to reach out to friends, family and neighbors, ... There will not be enough government vehicles to go and evacuate everybody in every area.

We're looking at the code of ethics and the code for advertising vehicles for this particular complaint.

Since it's just cresting over the flood stage, it's minor flooding that we're forecasting. You probably don't need a canoe, but it's probably wise to move vehicles out of the area.

Since the 1997 model year, Ford vehicles have been improving on a consistent basis. This year is a bit of an exception. The Focus is one of those vehicles that hasn't aged gracefully.

Most vehicles gradually increase their emissions, but with aging vehicles, there are some catastrophic failures, such as holes in catalytic converters.

We had been projecting an (annual) sales rate of 16 million vehicles in September. If I take out a third of sales for only a two week period, you still come out with an eye-popping 13.3 million sales rate; 13.3 million is about as low as sales ever get.

Many consumers continue to perceive that GM and Ford vehicles are of lower quality than some objective measures show they really are. We believe changing this perception will be a multiyear process.

Soldiers with Kalashnikovs and pickup trucks is not an army, ... To make the Iraqi Army stand on its own without American or coalition forces, we need command and control equipment, transport vehicles and training.

Side airbags can protect the head, but if the vehicle structure doesn't hold up well then serious injuries to other body regions still can occur, ... With better structures along with the side airbags, the performances of these vehicles would improve.

Signs were not posted to explain the detour. Thousands of vehicles had to make multiple lane merges and no one was there to help the process. Then the detour narrowed to a one-lane road through a business district.

Silicon Carbide-based semiconductors will play an important role in future Navy all-electric ships and vehicles as well as many advanced weapons systems.

Silicon carbide based semiconductors will play an important role in future U.S. Navy all-electric ships and vehicles as well as many advanced weapons systems.

She wants to ride the vehicles to make sure they're right.

The prices of any vehicles ordered based on the old price but not yet delivered would be adjusted according to the new prices that will be announced later.

The primary thing we find out is the location of the accident, vehicle description, any injuries, is the road blocked, are both vehicles still there. From the information from the (reporting party), we would then first and foremost dispatch police, ambulances, if necessary, and fire department. After dispatch to the fire department, they would then decide if they should respond and the code they should respond.

When the ruling party has unhindered access to government funds, illegally uses government assets such as vehicles to campaign, and receives six times as much TV coverage as the opposition, there is no level playing field.

Know the company you're buying from, ... I would opt for purchasing directly from a Hertz or Enterprise. But I'd be careful of vehicles that come from corporations. They can generate lots of mileage.

I would say it's a dueling trend that retail mutual fund companies are starting hedge fund like vehicles to retain that talent. That is a weapon in a fund company's arsenal.

I would say overall it was a relatively stress free market. People were more on the level and the condition of the vehicles was better than buying in Toronto or Vancouver for sure.

He just had a method that he used that allowed him to drive off in brand new vehicles in our community and then to sell those, mark those as used or damaged vehicles and then sell those to unsuspecting victims.

For years, we've been advising buyers that greener models are available to them no matter what type of vehicle they're shopping for. Today, with a bona fide gas-powered SUV on our Greenest Vehicles list, this advice rings truer than ever,

Getting gross-polluting vehicles off the road is a cost-effective strategy.

Getting in the vehicles themselves is not dangerous, it's in the human element where we run into problems ? which is why we require training to drive them. If we felt they were really dangerous there would be no way we would be keeping them on the road.

If a substantial proportion of the 80 000 Taxi Recap vehicles due for delivery over the next five years is to be reported in the MCV segment, we could be in for even more spectacular growth in the overall over-3 500 kg GVM market.

For vehicles right on the bubble, they can bump them over.

I believe that this segment is growing because it offers people vehicles that are fuel efficient but allow people to have more space.

I believe that vehicles are very passionate, emotional extensions of ourselves.

Because we feel the IIHS crash tests provide valuable safety information for consumers, we created a second tier of recommended vehicles for which good results in both of the IIHS crash tests are mandatory,

Batteries are a necessary part of hybrid electric-gasoline powered vehicles and someday, when the technology matures, will be part of hybrid electric-hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles.

We are extremely proud to have been involved in bringing to the market the world's first and cleanest marine terminal tractors. These two clean air vehicles are but one step in our program to own and operate one of the cleanest terminals in the Port of Los Angeles.

Having suppliers involved as partners earlier in the engineering process helps reduce lead time and improves quality for our customers. GM also will be able to design more cost-effective vehicles for customers that will provide additional environmental benefits and better fuel economy.

Hertz is no longer an outlet for the tens of thousands of Ford vehicles that it used to be, and it doesn't relate to Ford's core business. I don't think the absence of Hertz will hurt Ford overall.

We've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.

He was literally torn apart by the vehicles who ran over him.

Hybrid vehicles are gaining broader appeal among Americans. But a majority are also aware of the benefits of diesel powered vehicles, which presents a strategic conundrum for the auto industry.

Hydrogen holds the ultimate long-term promise for clean and sustainable power. In the meantime, both hybrids and ethanol-fueled vehicles can significantly lessen U.S. dependence on imported oil while reducing the impact on our global environment. The Escape Hybrid E85 program could lead to the breakthroughs needed to marry these two important technologies in production vehicles.

Hyundai Motor America is proud to announce its continued commitment to traffic safety by showcasing the new tools developed in conjunction with LAPD and LAUSD to raise community awareness among children and adults, and to help reduce the alarming statistics related to motor vehicle collisions. As an auto manufacturer, Hyundai Motor America wants to keep families safe when operating motor vehicles and to promote healthy communities, ... We created The ABCs of Traffic Safety Always Be Careful - in the fall of 2003 to remind drivers, occupants, and pedestrians about proper use of safety belts and child restraints; promote safe driving by commuters particularly in reduced speed school zones; and ensure children have been properly instructed on crossing streets.

He was ramming vehicles out of his way. That's how it was described to me.

If those train wrecks and if that gamesmanship is being driven by broad political forces, narrow margins in the House and the Senate, divided party government, difficult decisions that have to be made, genuine differences that exist, mobilization of interest groups if all of those things are true, you are going to find vehicles to have those fights, whether you have a two-year budget cycle or not.

If the auto companies are serious about this effort, then we need to see flexible-fuel vehicles running on ethanol, not gasoline.

He was walking down Ivy near Begonia (streets) when two vehicles pulled up behind the victim and chased him around the block. An unconfirmed number of Hispanic males and females were in the vehicles. They began fighting with the victim and he was stabbed twice.

History has told us as you have made the vehicles more and more fuel efficient, people get bigger vehicles.

He's a little smart-aleck colored boy, Teddy says he's a pro. Teddy tells Maurice to get us a gasoline truck so we can fill up our cars. Maurice comes back with a highway hauler, Texaco written across the tank. The time I met him Maurice had swiped more different kinds of vehicles than any car booster doing time at Jeff City. But you're right, what's the rush?

We took ownership responsibility for making drivers aware of unsafe behavior. We now expect bad behavior rolling through stop signs, following vehicles too closely, exceeding speed limits to be stopped in its tracks.

We're positive about ethanol and we'd like to see it succeed, but there are issues with using it in some vehicles, ... And the vehicle manufacturers actually recommend some vehicles don't use an ethanol blend, so we have to be cautious.

Just one in ten of the vehicles we tested achieved fuel economies as good as or better than EPA estimates.

Many dealers have their early months' allocations of Escalades pre-sold, and the vehicles that aren't pre-sold are sold within a few days.

Look, if you're going to have millions of vehicles going on the highways, am I going to predict no traffic jam in next three days? Obviously not. There will be a bunch of vehicles moving, and all it takes is one stalled or wrecked vehicle to create a backup.

Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'

Some Japanese companies, such as automakers, are now even benefiting from higher crude oil prices, as they boost demand for fuel-efficient vehicles made by Japanese makers.

Starting with our April 8 season-opening event, we will no longer be able to allow people to carry in any food or beverage items from the outside. This is due to regulatory changes outside our control in the insurance and food service industry. We will continue to offer passes out which will allow our guests to visit their vehicles during our racing program.

Red light cameras can help communities enforce traffic laws by automatically photographing vehicles whose drivers run red lights. A nationwide study of fatal crashes at traffic signals in 1999 and 2000 estimated that 20 percent of the vehicles involved failed to obey signals. In 2004 alone, more than 900 people were killed, and an estimated 168,000 were injured, in crashes that involved red light running. About half of all deaths in red light running crashes are pedestrians and occupants in other vehicles who are hit by the red light runners.

People who represent drunk drivers know that all you have to do is then go to the Registry of Motor Vehicles and show a hardship, and you get your license back,

Stay on snowmobile trails whenever possible. If you do find yourself leaving the trail, go only where other vehicles have already gone.

SUVs are becoming more popular as family vehicles because they can accommodate multiple child safety seats and their larger size may lead parents to believe SUVs are safer than passenger cars. However, people who use an SUV as their family vehicle should know that SUV's do not provide superior protection for child occupants.

Large sport utility vehicles are pretty good deals these days - and the money you save will pay for an awful lot of gas.

Manufacturers are still trying to define the crossover vehicle, and we will continue to see a variety of crossover vehicles enter the marketplace. No one wants to be just a minivan or a sedan owner anymore.

I think some of these vehicles will help the domestics for a few months. But I think they are going to continue to struggle. If you weren't on shoppers' lists to start with, I'm not sure that many of these vehicles will be strong enough to get them back on the list.

Law enforcement's biased view of the Irish lives on in the nickname we still use for the vehicles we use to transport groups of prisoners. It is, after all, the 'paddy wagon.' The Irish had tough times, but little compares to the experience on our soil of black Americans.

Rising repair costs have increased the likelihood that damages exceed the vehicle's market value, causing an insurance carrier to total the vehicle rather than repair it. However, claims settlement satisfaction is considerably lower among customers who have had their vehicles totaled, often because they owe more on their vehicle loan than the settlement amount.

Owners of vehicles can be charged. It's like photo radar. The owner of the vehicle can be charged even if they weren't driving.

Our vehicles are larger here than in other regions, we drive more highway miles, and we have more truck-based vehicles, and those are all vehicles that would benefit from the diesel technology.

Other vehicles were leaving the station's lot and there was a great deal of traffic on the roadway near the station at the time,

Our award reflects a high level of confidence in TVS' product design and development skills across the tactical vehicle spectrum, as well as those of UQM Technologies and our other supplier partners. Lessons derived from conducting this demonstrator phase will be integrated with our Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles (FMTV) enhancement program -- the FMTV A2 -- to ensure the U.S. Army continues to operate the most advanced tactical truck fleet in the world.

Our goal for the Grand Challenge is to prove the real-world feasibility of autonomous vehicles. There is no outstanding technical reason why unmanned vehicles can't be on the road today, ... We believe Team DAD has the answer for legitimate autonomous vehicles in a system that is ready for deployment right now -- the possibilities are endless.