loud siren which had been a police officer chasing us down for exceeding the speed limit. Sam was really nervous and at some point, I felt where as if he was going to start crying. Sam pulls over looking helplessly while the officer approached the vehicle. the officer asks Sam a few questions and take his information while I sit in the passenger seat without having a single word come out of my mouth. the officer walks toward his car and I look at Sam crying with laughter. I had no idea of what…
the wheel of a vehicle after that have consumed more than the legal limit of alcohol. The legal limit Individuals that decide to drink and drive not only put themselves at risk, but additionally become a hazardous threat to citizens that travel the same roadways. The consequences of their decisions can have a lasting impact on their family and victims of incidents involving drinking and driving. According to Nelson (2015), “Alcohol-impaired driving accounts for more than 30% of motor vehicle…
is a program that helps the older adult with modifications that make his/her interface with the vehicle functional. • At the secondary prevention level the issues that have caused a loss of driving ability are addressed. This may mean modifying medication regiments, referring for substance abuse treatment or sending a driver to a rehabilitation specialist who can assist with skill remediation or vehicle modifications. • Tertiary prevention is focused on the cessation of driving when skills have…
lives because of other people who are careless and get behind the wheel while intoxicated. We typically don’t consider drunk driving as a big deal like we would a bombing or a killing of someone famous. It’s sad to see that people are dying every day because of this one bad decision. I recently lost one of my friends Jacob Salazar to a driver who was driving while intoxicated. In January of 2016, Jacob was driving home one night when all of a sudden a car swerved into the median and came into…
S1Q2 Science Report – Friction Friction is part of our everyday life. It has modernised the world we live in however, there are opposing thoughts on the true benefits. Friction is the force that resists motion of moving objects. Hence, the smoother the surface the less friction there is, unlike gravity or electromagnetism, friction is not a fundamental force. Instead, it is believed that friction is the result of the electromagnetic attraction between two touching surfaces with charged particles…
courses and retraining sessions, A-L&L Driving Academy in Hyde Park, MA offers lessons that are easy to understand. Our main priority is the safety of all our students. While…
don’t know how bad it really is to drive while under the influence of alcohol. Some might say, “I’m not that drunk, I can drive,” but can they? Many effects could come from drunk driving, but there’s only one way to cause it. Although everyone in the world knows that driving while intoxicated is a very dangerous predicament, people still make the wrong decision and end up causing significant harm to themselves and/or to the drivers around them. First of all, the one and only cause of driving…
A self-driving car is a vehicle that can drive by itself using cameras, scanning laser range finders, radar, sensors, and software to see the world around it in order to navigate the road. There are many advantages to having self-driving cars. One of the biggest advantages is safety. The self-driving car can prevent accidents that are caused by human error. Most accidents are caused due to people not paying attention, falling asleep at the wheel, being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or…
are killed and over 1,300 are injured in car accidents that involve a distracted driver (Simon). The major distractions are taking their eyes off the road, mind off driving and hands off the wheel. When doing one or more of these distractions, it makes drivers more likely to have an accident. We have all been driving and seen a car that was not following the road regulations and noticed that they were on their cell phone. Studies have shown that drivers are not aware of their distracted…
July 25th was an extraordinary day. Well, for me that is. I received my first car that day. My first car was a sleek silver Honda Civic. My vehicle is super important to me not just because it is my first car. The main reason why it is so important to me is because I have experienced so many new places in that Honda and have seen some very beautiful scenery in it too. I went on my first cross country trip in that car. I got to experience the city of my dreams, Los Angeles, in that car. It took…