Sentence examples for backup driver from inspiring English sources

"I did bring a backup driver, but it has a different shaft.

The world's first "self-driving" taxi service has been launched in Singapore – albeit with a human backup driver and co-pilot on board for the time being.

"You are not arriving in a country where there are no fans and you are trying to create a fan base," said Karun Chandhok, an Indian Formula One backup driver at Team Lotus.

"You are not arriving in a country where there are no fans and you are trying to create a fan base," said Karun Chandhok, an Indian Formula One backup driver at Team Lotus who will not compete Sunday.

After the club head on his driver broke during Friday's round, Woods used a backup driver today, and for a while it looked as if he might shoot another low round.

Had the backup driver reacted, she could have stopped the SUV 42.61 feet short of impact, one analysis found.

Ten of the drivers had violations so serious that they were made to stop driving immediately; backup drivers were called.

In a number of studies, carmakers have found that people in self-driving vehicles are inadequate backup drivers — unable to quickly judge situations around them when called upon to drive suddenly, pulled away from a distraction like a cell phone, video game, or streaming movie.

Alphabet's Waymo, one of Uber's main rivals in the autonomous vehicle space, launched a self-driving taxi service there last week, but with backup drivers.

Before the crash, Uber had planned to launch a limited self-driving taxi service in the suburbs of Phoenix that would let users hail autonomous cars without backup drivers.

Robbie Miller, then a manager in the unit's testing operations, was preparing to leave the company when he warned that "cars are routinely in accidents resulting in damage" and backup drivers, who sit behind the wheel in self-driving cars for safety reasons, weren't properly trained or fired even if they made repeated mistakes.