The Future of Road Travel – The Autonomous Car The future is here, well almost! Have you every heard of the saying, technology is growing faster and faster everyday? What if you could be able to go on a trip, and never once touch the wheel! Well the future is here! The self-driving car or better known as the autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of doing everything that our traditional cars do without any help from humans. Autonomous cars use radar, GPS, cameras, and sensors to…
Hochswender believes that without having a four-wheel-drive vehicle, individuals cannot get from place to place safely. It is safer to be in an SUV than a Corolla when getting into an accident (Hochswender 155). I agree with this statement because a little Corolla will get totaled pretty bad if hit by an incoming SUV or a car larger than a Corolla. Hochswender also speaks on the…
some sleep. Drowsy driving and drunk driving are similar and very dangerous. They both can end tragically. Driving drowsy can be just as dangerous as driving drunk; both can lead to poor judgment, an accident, or even death. Driving fatigue can cause a person nearly miss another driver, be in a one-car crash or have accidently hit another automobile. In the article, “Assessing the Effectiveness of Interactive Media in Improving Drowsy Driver Safety,” written by Leila Takayama and Clifford Nass,…
it is six times more likely to cause an accident than driving intoxicated (Bands, n.d.). That means that even when an individual is drunk and does not have their mind all there it is still more dangerous and deadly to everyone on the road to be texting and driving. Another great reason to not text and drive is that it slows brake reaction speed by 18% (Bands, n.d.). When the reaction one has slows down to press on breaks this causes rear end car accidents. In the state of Arizona this is a big…
that age causes terrible accidents.What parents don't realize is that when they give their teenager a car and a phone it's causing them a huge distracting on the road for new teen drivers. Teenager aren’t just killed by texting while driving there's also other ways including subway and train accident. Just by having a cellphone in your hand and your on any kind of road can cause you to have a accident by any kind of way. Cell Phones are just one of those objects that grabs people’s attention no…
Did you know that more than 4,000 teens under the age of 19 die from driving accidents? Almost 60% of all car accidents occur more often in the teen age group. Older people tend to be more mature and pay more attention when they drive. Raising the driving age to 21 can benefit younger people. Raising the driving age will also save people’s lives. The driving age should be increased to 21 because it gives people advantages to be safe and to drive. Older people tend to be more mature and pay more…
licensing program to help teens learn how to drive safely. Teens have very little knowledge and experience in a car. Current programs don’t teach and show young people how to drive or use a car. GDLs require you to have a set number of hours driving with an adult to receive your license, as were regular license don’t. GDLs give teens a step by step experience on how to drive a car with the help of adult supervision. Raising the driving age wouldn’t help the situation at hand.…
On 01-01-2017 at 0025 hours I was dispatched to Kinzer Street and 6th Street in reference to a motor vehicle accident. See accident report 2017-0001T Upon my arrival I made contact with Katie Clark, who was the driver of a 2001 Chrysler Sebring who started stating immediately her friends all told her not to driver. Clark advised me she had drunk a half of fifth of alcohol and that she should not have been driving. While speaking to Clark I could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from…
industry by using an induction motor, giving a competitive edge to other cars that run on combustion. Tesla´s motor and battery help us today in the present to get to places faster due to the powerful motor and electric battery. Tesla’s battery and motor is unique from other automobiles; both the motor and battery are found in the bottom-front of the automobile. Because, the motor and battery are found on the bottom-front of the car; Tesla’s platform is in a shape of a skateboard. On…
And although snow may be more complicated to drive in, summer driving can be a hassle as well. Studies show that the month of August had the second highest number of fatal car accidents in 2014, with 3,037. June, July, and September had over 2,800 fatal misfortunes themselves. What makes all of these car accidents occur during the summer? There are several reasons, one of them is that there are more teens on the road. When school goes out in the summer more teens hit the road for…