driver's seat

Example Sentences

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Friday’s bond-market moves are “screaming that job and growth fears are in the driver’s seat. The catalyst is pretty obvious: It is the great AI scare, which jumped a firewall from being a tech-sector story to being a macro story,” Ahn said in a phone interview.

From MarketWatch

According to Tesla’s marketing materials for Autopilot and Full Self-Drive mode, “the system is designed to be able to conduct short and long-distance trips with no action required by the person in the driver’s seat.”

From Los Angeles Times

For months, Netflix has been in the driver’s seat of an industry-shaking effort to acquire Warner Bros.

From MarketWatch

I fling off my flip-flops and rub my feet against the back of the driver’s seat.

From Literature

Camille asks quietly from the driver’s seat.

From Literature