Wiktionary
vb. (context transitive English) To mean, signify; to aim or tend to a point.
Usage examples of "drive at".
So if they kick the remaining drive at 46,000 gees at that point, they'll shave maybe seven seconds off their arrival time, and they'll be coming in somewhere around 200,000 KPS.
So if they kick the remaining drive at 46,000 gees at that point, they’.
He was too close for a careful bowshot, but I let drive at him as he came, without taking aim.
By itself this sufficiently illustrates the obvious fact I drive at.
But the enormous bulk of the enemy, its drive at least partly functional, still hung over everyone's head, dragging the research station, very slowly in terms of interstellar travel, toward some mysterious destination.
Had I known the professor's whereabouts, I could have taken this disk out of the drive at anytime and destroyed it, thus ending the threat.
There was no regulation against a ship's holding her impeller drive at standby in parking orbit, but it was almost unheard of.