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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

The potential here is enormous. Autonomous vehicles will be as important as the Internet.

We are proud of our record as an auto industry environmental leader and firmly believe our vehicles comply with the testing procedures as originally written.

We've added GPS on almost the whole fleet of vehicles in Water, Streets and Sanitation and Transportation. We've increased the amount of inspections we do on crews in the field. And we audit the work completed. That's the best tool we have to ensure quality jobs, validate materials used and make sure the work was completed.

We believe that more than 500,000 vehicles equipped with air brakes may be operated by drivers who, like the Glen Rock driver, have no air brake training and therefore may not be able to operate their vehicles safely.

We strongly deny that members of the Mexican army participated in any incident at the Mexican-U.S. border. I think it's fair to say that criminal organizations sometimes wear military uniforms and use military vehicles to provide confusion among authorities of both countries.

There is no question that the demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by rising gas prices.

We're going to see major, major changes in the way vehicles are manufactured and who's going to be doing the manufacturing. We haven't seen the last of it yet.

We've recovered stolen vehicles in the past, yes. But now we have the likelihood to catch a lot more.

When we have seen the fire reports increasing, we have recalled those vehicles and replaced those switches. Ford has used the basic switch design in a large number of vehicles and the risk of fire related to the switch is much different in those certain populations that we have recalled.

We bring the imagery from our vehicles back in-house and then we review it for spatial accuracy, for clarity and to make sure that we've captured everything within a collection zone.

We believe we are in the lead by the sheer number of vehicles deployed by customers each day.

We're extremely pleased by the results of our second South Florida event. The success we achieved at this auction, along with the results from our Scottsdale auction, reflects the increased popularity of classic vehicles and the automotive lifestyle experience.

We're reaching this point of the chicken and the egg; we want people to buy vehicles that use E85, but there's not a station to buy it near Des Moines.

With the proper design, occupants in the vehicles can walk away without serious injury.

Vehicles with open boxes are designed for carrying cargo, not people, ... Passengers should be riding inside the vehicle and should be properly secured with seatbelts and safety restraints.

Vehicles that engage customers immediately upon first sight tend to keep those customers around to learn more about the vehicles.

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Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.

Vehicles are being built better and require less repair, so we've been getting by with a shrinking work force. But the number of cars in this country keeps increasing. There is definitely going to be more demand for automotive technicians when these large numbers start retiring.

With the windows down, we saw improvement on both vehicles but only of 1.6% with the Land Rover, and 4.1% with the Mustang,

Words are faith vehicles to take you to your promise land.

We have no problem with picketers. We do have a problem when they decide to block vehicles going in and out of our plants.

We have some concerns about the use of the vehicles as this legislation is written. We will be talking to the sponsor and expressing our concerns and may be working something out.

We are helping develop the infrastructure to increase awareness and offer consumers a choice. Right now there are many consumers who either don't know their vehicles can run on ethanol or have nowhere to pump it.

We're able to provide transportation to the public that's not going to cost that much additional money. The county is not going to be buying new vehicles or hiring new drivers.

We hope vehicle manufacturers will come to the point where they are fitting all vehicles with a side-airbag package. In other words, front, side and head protection,

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars. If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We've seen quite a bit of that 'richening,' even with low (priced) cars, ... If you look at vehicles now, it's not unusual for small cars to have stackable CD changers or satellite. It's quite a change from old beer-can-on-wheels day when the least expensive cars had no options -- no air, not even an automatic transmission.

We have reports of damage -- tree damage right now fairly significant, also some reports of some vehicles that were overturned, and reports of damage to at least one home in the area.

We're just trying to get track time, get teams acquainted with the vehicles and give them a chance to get drivers in them. This will give them an opportunity to see the differences of what in what they used in today's car against the Car of Tomorrow on back-to-back days. It's nothing more than a learning day.

We have indications to believe that it was in both of their vehicles in the mall parking lot.

We have identified specific populations of vehicles in which the speed-control deactivation switches have had increasing rates of failures and fires,

We are targeting larger vehicles initially in our hybrid strategy because that's where we can get the greatest impact, focusing on vehicles that consume the largest amount of fuel.

This winter GMAC rate incentive provides GM Certified customers with excellent value and affordable financing rates on some of our most popular vehicles. GM Certified Used Vehicles continues to lead the certified pre-owned category in delivering top-quality, low-mileage, fully inspected and reconditioned vehicles that help build consumer confidence in GM products.

There are vehicles tossed hither and yon just like throwing pick-up sticks,

There are vehicles lying around, bodies lying around, and there are bits of bodies around me,

There are thousands of vehicles around the world in transit going to dealers for inventory. If we get a specific configuration request from a customer and can match that to a car en route to a dealer, we can relocate that vehicle from the point it is going to, to where the customer is. That would be a major part of the process of a build-to-order environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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

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,

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.

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.

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.

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've got to keep our emergency vehicles going.