'preceding car' is a grammatically correct and usable expression in written English.
It can be used to describe one car that is located in a line or sequence of vehicles. For example, "The driver of the preceding car honked as a warning before making a sudden stop."
The No8 car took the lead one hour and 40 minutes into the race when Bourdais slightly overshot his marks, unsighted by a preceding car entering the pit box.
But it's just as likely the preceding car will pick up your tab at a Dunkin' Donuts drive-through in Detroit or a McDonald's drive-through in Fargo, N.D. Drive-through generosity is happening across America and parts of Canada, sometimes resulting in unbroken chains of hundreds of cars paying in turn for the person behind them.
The results of numerical simulations prove that multiple preceding cars' velocity changes with memory have significant effects on car-following behaviors and that using multiple preceding cars' velocity changes with memory feedback in designing a connected cruise control system can improve roadway traffic mobility, enhance traffic safety and reduce fuel consumptions and exhaust emissions.
In this paper, a new connected cruise control strategy considering multiple preceding cars' velocity changes with memory is designed to improve roadway traffic mobility, enhance traffic safety and reduce fuel consumptions and exhaust emissions.
For example, driverless cars are preceded by cars with heads-up displays and automated sensory-enabled breaks already in the market.
The system has been incorporated into a commercial Citroën car and tested on the private driving circuit at the facilities of our research center, CAR, with different preceding vehicles – a motorbike, car, and truck – with encouraging results.
In 2010 the Whitney Museum of American Art held the exhibition "America by Car," a collection of 192 images taken by Friedlander from his car over the preceding decade.
Ushered in with solemnity, each car preceded by a red flag, it soon burst through these legislative restrictions and still celebrates its victory with an annual procession of holy relics that roar and splutter from London to Brighton.
To be clear, Trad did not take his helicopter with him but, rather, armed with fake military leave papers he escaped by bus and by taxi from Aleppo to Turkey, preceded by "a car driven by friends went ahead, to alert them of checkpoints.
We believe that this agreement and preceding negotiations initiated the European diesel car boom, as reflected in the continuous increase in diesel car sales since the mid 1990 years (Figure 1).
Half a dozen cars preceded us on the steaming asphalt.
