Delphi hopes to create a new business that can gather vast amounts of data from vehicles — about how and where they go, how they're driven and how they're running.
That makes comparisons with fossil-fuelled cars almost impossible.Petrol cars and diesels can also get more or fewer miles to the gallon depending on how they are driven, but irrespective of the distance the owner drives.
Drivers who sign up for MyRate will install a small wireless device in their cars that transmits to Progressive not just how many miles they drive but also when those miles are driven and, to some extent, how they are driven: the device measures the car's speed every second, from which Progressive can derive acceleration and braking behavior.
Depending on how they're driven, plug-in hybrids can use little to no gasoline, though ownership costs tend to favor those with shorter commutes and around-town use.
Finally, an understanding of some of the politics behind science has helped me appreciate how all these things fit together--how they are driven, what gets funded, and where the priorities are likely to lie.
For the first time in history, advances in psychology and neurobiology have made it feasible to pursue the detailed neural mechanisms underlying goal-directed and voluntary actions--how they are driven by the needs and desires of the organism and controlled by cognitive processes that provide a rich representation of the self and the world.
It seemed like no matter how many times they were driven off, they would re-spawn and rear their heads again, forever chanting "E-E-EDL!" A couple of the EDL got arrested and the antifa mob gathered around the police's Yellow Maria to bid them a sarcastic farewell.
How should they be driven out? "By jihad".
This debate about how much they are driven by financial trading activity, speculative behavior of the markets versus just the supply and demand fundamentals.
