Belgian test driver Stoffel Vandoorne is scheduled to attend for McLaren.
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He is married to a former Formula One test driver, Susie Wolff.
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Video showed the test driver was distracted and not watching the road.
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Ricciardo was signed as a test driver for Red Bull and Toro Rosso.
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The Swiss is now with Formula E newcomers Porsche as a test driver.
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" Now, a Tesla test driver is saying Musk's boast might have even been "conservative.
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They will have a test driver upfront and will not be part of our ridesharing service.
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To date, Waymo vehicles have been operating on public roads with a test driver at the wheel.
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A 44-year-old Uber test driver was at the wheel of the modified 2017 Volvo XC90.
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This Bugatti 37A was once owned by Pierre Veyron, a test driver and French resistance war hero.
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Regulators are requiring that a backup test driver remain in the driver's seat to take over if necessary.
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Another car to the left "abruptly" entered the Waymo car's lane, so the Waymo test driver took over.
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Seamus is an Irishman who serves as Singer's test driver, sometimes engineer, and all-around go-to man.
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Waymo's human test driver, who sustained only minor injuries (thankfully), didn't get out of the way in time.
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"Your primary tools are the anti-roll bars, springs, and dampers," says Polestar engineer and test driver Joakim Rydholm.
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We are concerned about the well-being and safety of our test driver and wish her a full recovery.
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The self-driving cars have been test driving in Phoenix since November, but now the test driver is gone.
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A test driver for Italian exotic carmaker Pagani wrecked one of the company's $2.5 million prototypes in Germany last week.
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The vehicle was in autonomous mode at the time of the collision, with a human test driver behind the wheel.
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Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace reached 304.773 mph on Monday at Volkswagen's banked test track at Ehra-Lessien in Germany.
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Colombian Tatiana Calderon, an official test driver for the Sauber Formula One team, will turn out for the DS Techeetah team.
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That includes the power that's obvious when our test driver gunned the accelerator, and the interior interfaces for use while driving.
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Of course, the one and only Stig, Top Gear's mysterious test driver, will be leaving everyone in his petrol-hazed wake.
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Dropped from the team at the end of 2014, Gutiérrez sat out racing last year, working as a Ferrari test driver.
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The test driver behind the wheel of Uber's self-driving car was supposed to intervene if the autonomous driving software failed.
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In March, Waymo began shuttling a group of early riders in self-driving vehicles without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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Once the vehicle descended, the test driver slowly accelerated to about 44 mph through the tunnel, back towards Crenshaw and 120th Street.
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But Power started out with Penske as a test driver in 2009 — with no guarantees that he would drive in a race.
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De Simone is Ferrari's Head of Subjective Evaluation and Development, which really means he's the luxury sports car maker's top test driver.
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Ford's protocol calls for self-driving vehicles to have a test driver behind the wheel, and a colleague in the passenger seat.
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The California DMV is almost ready to allow autonomous vehicles on the state's public roads without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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"There is a trained test driver behind the wheel of every car," Klaus Buettner, BMW's Vice President in charge of Autonomous Driving said.
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The company will start testing the truck's autonomous capabilities on roads in Arizona later this year with a test driver behind the wheel.
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The test driver is supposed to intervene and take action since the emergency brakes aren't automatically applied under computer control, the report says.
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Criminal liability would be different in a case involving a self-driving car that had a test driver behind the wheel, Walters said.
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Waymo began in May 2018 to allow some early riders to hail a self-driving minivan without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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On the day before Uber's self-driving car hit and killed a pedestrian in Arizona, the test driver went to sleep at 5 a.m.
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But in those incidents, Google's car wasn't to blame — another car struck Google's or the test driver behind the autonomous vehicle was at fault.
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The test driver, Google said, thought the bus would slow down or come to a stop, allowing the Google car to merge, which it didn't.
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Felipe Nasr, whose place at Sauber is under threat after he lost a key sponsor in Banco do Brazil, was previously a Williams test driver.
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The vehicle and the test driver "believed the bus would slow or allow the Google (driverless vehicle) to continue," the company said in a statement.
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By May of this year, Waymo began allowing some early riders to hail a self-driving minivan without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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Waymo is already shuttling a group of approved "early riders" in self-driving vehicles without a human test driver behind the wheel in the Phoenix area.
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"I think it's disappointing," Bird, a former Mercedes Formula One test driver who now races in Formula E for the DS Virgin Racing team, told Reuters.
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Also in 2012, María de Villota, a Spanish test driver at the Marussia team, had a freak, low-speed accident that caused a serious head injury.
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The test driver told investigators she was looking at the self-driving system interface, not cellphones — though those were in the vehicle — just before the crash.
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Italian test driver Antonio Giovinazzi drove for Sauber in the morning, before handing back to Sweden's Marcus Ericsson who could manage only the 14th best time.
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During that ride, the car did not have a steering wheel, foot pedal, or test driver as it drove from a doctor's office to a park.
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But this permit, issued by the California Department of Motor Vehicles, allows Waymo to test these self-driving cars without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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By May of this year, Waymo began allowing some early riders in Phoenix to hail a self-driving minivan without a human test driver behind the wheel.
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It's not always smooth, and traffic can stack up behind these cautious autonomous vehicles, sometimes requiring the human test driver to take manual control of the car.
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Last month, the National Transportation Safety Board's preliminary report noted that the test driver said she'd been looking at the self-driving system interface before the crash.
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A Waymo test driver will be behind the wheel at all times, but the company insists that the vehicle will drive without human intervention as much as possible.
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There were another 69 episodes in which the test driver chose to take control of the vehicle rather than the car signaling to the driver to take control.
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Using a simulator to replay the situation, Google found in 13 of these instances its cars would have hit another object had the test driver not taken control.
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Among other requirements, companies testing the vehicles without a human test driver behind the wheel in California will have to build in a link to a remote operator.
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The Times also found that two test driver groups in Arizona had merged into one mostly focused on driving more miles and picking up more data for the system.
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The Google AV test driver saw the bus approaching in the left side mirror but believed the bus would stop or slow to allow the Google AV to continue.
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But the workers in the factory, including the engineer Gian Paolo Dallara and test driver Bob Wallace, had other ideas and they designed a mid-engine chassis in secret.
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Massa, who had a difficult first season in the series with Sauber, took a year off in 2003 to gain some experience by being a test driver for Ferrari.
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These 30 road cars won't be exactly like the one Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace drove on the test track when the car hit 305 miles an hour, though.
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Every time a test driver takes control to avoid a potential accident, Google's engineers later simulate what would have happened had the car continued driving, and obviously fix any deficiencies.
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The accident, which occurred at night and coincided with autonomous test driver Rafaela Vasquez looking down right before the moment of impact, left pedestrian 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg dead.
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However, regulators are requiring that a backup test driver remain in the front seat of the car to take over if necessary, and Zoox is not allowed to charge passengers.
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A test driver from Uber was behind the wheel -- but not in control -- when the SUV hit the woman, who was walking her bike across a street in Tempe, Arizona.
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The company would have to know that its self-driving technology would fail in a way that threatened lives, and that the test driver would be unable to fix it.
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These are events where the "safe operation of the vehicle requires control by the driver" — that is, when the test driver decided they needed to grab the wheel for some reason.
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Max, it turns out, tends many lines—musician, writer, photographer, ordained minister, and figure model—but his most remunerative is as a test driver and reviewer, for magazines, of expensive automobiles.
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If you've watched the BBC's hit show, Top Gear, you'll recognize the driver on the box as The Stig (who has, unfortunately, been cropped off above), the program's mysterious test driver.
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The struggling team have already appointed Dan Ticktum, a two-times Macau F3 winner, and W Series champion Jamie Chadwick as development drivers along with Israeli Roy Nissany as official test driver.
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Google said the car's human test driver — whose presence is mandated by law — believed, like the vehicle's artificial intelligence, that the bus would yield to the car and didn't stop its movement.
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That said, our test driver believed the bus was going to slow or stop to allow us to merge into the traffic, and that there would be sufficient space to do that.
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A National Transportation Safety Board investigation released in November found that Uber's test driver was distracted by their phone and the company had an inadequate safety culture that contributed to the crash.
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California law requires a test driver to be present inside driverless vehicles and Faraday says it is working on a car that will allow those inside to switch from manual to autonomous mode.
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The test driver in the autonomous car must have received no less than 50 hours of training and be able to take over the vehicle at any time during the test, Xinhua said.
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The map of the Castle campus comes courtesy of Steven Levy's story this week in Backchannel, which reveals the life of a Google test driver as the company's self-driving cars come together.
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A specially modified Bugatti Chiron, driven by Bugatti test driver Andy Wallace, went 304.8 miles per hour on a 5.5 mile straightaway on Volkswagen's Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany, the company said.
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The 20-year-old, announced this week as a Renault test driver, was handed Kevin Magnussen's car for first practice at his home grand prix on Friday and made the most of the opportunity.
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The California DMV defines a disengagement as either the self-driving software failing and needing a human to take control, or the test driver feeling compelled to take control to avoid a dangerous situation.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Former Williams F1 test driver Susie Wolff, whose husband Toto runs Formula One world champions Mercedes, was named on Tuesday as principal and a shareholder of the Monaco-based Venturi Formula E team.
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In the beginning of Stitcher's new podcast, My Dead Wife, the Robot Car, a widower named Matt signs up with a mysterious tech company to work as a test driver for a new autonomous car.
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Sirotkin, 20, has previous Formula One experience as a test driver for the cash-strapped Sauber team and made his debut in Friday practice for them in the inaugural 2014 Russian Grand Prix at Sochi.
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In the moments before the test vehicle hit 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg, who was walking her bicycle across a Tempe, Arizona, road, the test driver, Vasquez, was apparently streaming the TV show through Hulu.
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Williams gave former F2 driver Roy Nissany an outing and the 25-year-old Israeli, whose father Chanoch was a test driver for now-defunct Minardi in 2005, was slowest by more than three seconds.
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"The role of test driver is so new that there isn't a particular type of person that we look for," said Brian Torcellini, head of operations for Google's Self-Driving Car testing program to The Republic.
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Brazilian Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of double world champion Emerson, had his first taste of a Formula One car with the U.S-owned Haas team that the 22-year-old has joined as an official test driver.
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His father Jos was a test driver for Honda's Formula One project in 1998 and would have raced for a planned team until the death of technical head Harvey Postlethwaite led to a change of plans.
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Waymo's first announcement was about completing its first fully, completely self-driven ride — one where the passenger rode in the autonomous care with no test driver on board, which took place last year in Austin, Texas.
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In 424,693 miles of autonomous driving, Google said its cars had experienced 272 episodes in which the human test driver had to assume control of the vehicle, an occurrence called "disengagement", when the autonomous technology failed.
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The most recent woman to take to the track was Susie Wolff of Scotland, who took part in Formula One practice sessions while she was a test driver for the Williams team from 2012 until last year.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russian Sergey Sirotkin has joined Renault as a Formula One test driver and will take part in the first practice session at his home grand prix in Sochi on Friday, the team said on Tuesday.
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The Frenchman, a former Force India driver returning after a year spent on the sidelines as Mercedes reserve and test driver, said he had never felt so much grip as he did with the new Renault RS20.
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Media reports indicated he was faster than Renault's Russian test driver Sergey Sirotkin while his simulator times were on a par with German race driver Nico Hulkenberg, who has scored all the team's points so far this season.
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After a year in Formula 3000, he worked with the Benetton Formula One team as a test driver in 2000-1, and in March 2001 made his Formula One race debut for Minardi at the Australian Grand Prix.
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"I'm not nothing, and they just tell you what you want to hear to get your vote and then don't do anything," said Kristen Glasgow, a 22-year-old from Woodstock who's a test driver at the Mercedes plant.
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There's also been one high-profile incident in which TV was a problem: a fatal crash in 2017 between an Uber self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian, in which the car's test driver was watching The Voice on Hulu.
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Here's Andy Wallace, Le Mans winner and Bugatti test driver, reaching a top speed of 240 mph (2260 km/h) on August 20163nd on the VW-owned test track at Ehra-Lessien in the German state of Lower Saxony.
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I took a ride up Goodwood Hill, one of the signature showcase events at the show, in a McLaren 650S Can-Am, driven by the inimitable Chris Goodwin, chief test driver for McLaren and one of the company's most convincing salesmen.
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Alfa already have a reserve driver in Marcus Ericsson, the Swede who raced for the team last year when they were known as Sauber, and a female test driver in Colombian Tatiana Calderon who is also competing in Formula Two.
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The engineer, who designed the chassis and happens to be the program's chief test driver, hammered the handsome, unassuming sedan through every turn, seeming to squeeze every pound-foot of torque from the 2600-kWh battery pack and dual permanent-magnet motors.
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Bottas has been with the team for eight years, nurtured through junior series and carrying out test driver duties before making his race debut in 2013, but next year will be the first time he is the most experienced driver in the line-up.
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Google's explanation of the incident in its monthly report will be out tomorrow, but here's what the department said about the crash in a copy given to The Verge this morning:Our test driver, who had been watching the bus in the mirror, also expected the bus to slow or stop.
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"To ensure the safety of road tests, we will not only not only require that road tests take place on prescribed streets, but also that the test driver sits in the driver position throughout, monitoring the car and the surrounding environment and ready to take control of the car at any time," he added.
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In a company blog post, Waymo noted that "it's the first time that California has allowed tests on public roads of fully driverless cars ― that is, without a test driver sitting in the driver's seat," and elaborated that the permit includes day and night testing, on a variety of road types at speeds up to 65 mph.
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Before they leave the factory, each car is outfitted with used wheels (so there's no chance of damage before delivery) and go on a 200 mile test drive, first on French mountain roads to work the brakes and ensure the suspension is working, and then to the airport in Colmar, France where a Bugatti test driver takes each car over 186 mph on the taxiway — during pauses in airplane traffic, naturally.
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Before they leave the factory, each car is outfitted with used wheels (so there's no chance of damage before delivery) and go on a 200-mile test drive, first on French mountain roads to work the brakes and ensure the suspension is working, and then to the airport in Colmar, France where a Bugatti test driver takes each car over 186 mph on the taxiway — during pauses in airplane traffic, naturally.
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