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Quotes About Vehicles

she believed that houses were meant to be thought of as vehicles – physically fixed, but logically mobile
~ Greg Egan
ALPR is?" she asked. "Automated license-plate recognition," Evan said, relieved to be back on familiar turf. "Police cruisers have sensors embedded in the light bars that scan the plates of all surrounding vehicles. They can swallow numbers eight lanes across on cars going in either direction up to eighty miles per hour.
~ Gregg Andrew Hurwitz
A lot of our work at Intel was on the automotive side: in the head unit, engine, and brake controllers.
~ Brian Krzanich
Thus make sure your enthusiasm for mind training remains undiminished. As for the pledges of the Great and Lesser vehicles you have taken, [75] you should, by sailing the great ship of shame and conscientiousness, which are the [true] antidotes, learn to guard them undiminished, not tainted by even the slightest infractions.
~ Thupten Jinpa
I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
~ Lapo Elkann
I absolutely hate cyclists. If they use the roads for free and they don't have to pay any tax, they must obey the rules.
~ Nigel Havers
I think all males from Detroit have an obsession with cars.
~ Dax Shepard
Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do.
~ Elon Musk
refurbish and resell used cars
~ Walter Isaacson
Now I fix time machines for a living. To be more specific, I am a certified network technician for T-Class personal-use chronogrammatical vehicles, and an approved independent affiliate contractor for Time Warner Time, which owns and operates this universe as a spatio-temporal structure and entertainment complex zoned for retail, commercial, and residential use.
~ Charles Yu
The technology used to detect if vehicles are carrying radioactive material is so sensitive it can tell if a person recently received radiation as part of a medical procedure.
~ Timothy Murphy
The Volkswagen Group offers the world's largest low-CO2 fleet.
~ Martin Winterkorn
What was the old saying? If it has tires or testicles, it's gonna give you problems .
~ P.C. Cast
DARPA—the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense. In Iraq and Afghanistan, American soldiers riding in tanks and trucks were being maimed and killed by IEDs. In response, the Defense Department was determined to develop vehicles that would not need drivers—what would become known as autonomous vehicles.
~ Daniel Yergin
It has strong environmental appeal, although in some places it is running on coal-generated electricity. This would make those EVs what some call "EEVs"—"emissions elsewhere vehicles.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 2019, EVs were less than 3 percent of new car sales in the United States. Some 189 zip codes—0.2 percent of the 43,000 in the country—represent 25 percent of EV sales, and all are in California. The main driver is government policy, as it is around the world.
~ Daniel Yergin
In 2009, China overtook the United States as the world's largest auto market, and the gap continues to grow. Beijing is determined that one out of every five new vehicles sold in China by 2025 should be a NEV—a "new energy vehicle.
~ Daniel Yergin
The new transportation system is multi-modal, autonomous and electric. People utilize a variety of vehicles including cars, bicycles, passenger drones, hoverboards, airplanes, boats, rockets and more. And with ease, efficiency and comfort. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we're making that real.
~ Hendrith Smith
The way we license people and register vehicles will become obsolete soon. We will need to design a new system that is based on autonomous tech, safer cars and more streamlined infrastructure.
~ Hendrith Smith
According to California Department of Transportation figures, upward of 275,000 vehicles travel Interstae 5 through the Newhall Pass dividing the Santa Clarita and San Fernando watersheds each day. There is no way to tally the number of individuals inside those vehicles, but taking into account the tendency of the average American driver, it is safe to speculate that at least 275,001 travelers per day have the opportunity to glance eastward of the thundering highway ...
~ Les Standiford
If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
~ Caity Lotz
drivers were still in some of them, faithfully
~ Unknown
If any vestige of the American automobile industry is to survive, it must involve state-of-the-art vehicles that are not equal to but surpass the best imports in every way.
~ Brock Yates
China has its own great champion of electric vehicles—Wan Gang. He ranks with Elon Musk in terms of impact on the advancement of the EV and as one of the most consequential figures for the global auto industry.
~ Daniel Yergin