Automobile maintenance

In today's society gasoline cars dominate the streets, which emit large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. To combat this problem manufactures are starting to create electric cars, but most electric cars today make compromises in range, thus making them impractical. To decrease the environmental impact of gasoline cars, electric cars need to stop compromising. The purpose of this project was to create a car that can wirelessly charge off of pads on roads while driving, which would…

If you own a vehicle, chances are you will need a good auto mechanic at some point. You need one that you can trust to get the job done right without over charging or tacking on unnecessary expenses. If you've found yourself searching for auto repair near me, use these four tips to find the best match for your needs. Tip #1 Reach Out to Past Customers Customers love to dish dirt on bad mechanics while praising auto repair shops that produce good quality at affordable prices. When you first…

I don't know why they call him Uncle Jimmy, but that was the name popping on my cell phone last Tuesday. He told me he needed a driver for a post office job he was planning and that it was all ready to go. Jimmy is in his 50s, but age doesn’t bothered him. He’s a huge, muscular built man. He always carries his Beretta, loaded and with the safety off, inside his jacket or hanging on his waist. Jimmy loves to scare people, he gets excited when he sees the look on their faces as they stand…

After a long night of drinking, all you want to do is go home and sleep. Some drivers go home and wake up the next day in their own bed, others wake up in hospital beds, while others don’t wake up at all. Receiving a phone call at 4 am with the news that one of your loved ones was involved in an accident because they tried to drive home under the influence of alcohol is one of the worst news you could hear. My father, who at that time was drunk, refused to call anyone to take him home because…

There are many different types of driving throughout the given year. The times of the year though where driving is most different is during winter and summer. They are many different things you must do and obstacles you must go through during these two seasons of the year. In the summer you have a couple different things that you must deal with. The number one thing you have to be aware of is the heat. Heat can cause a lot of problems with your car. When it is hot your car can over heat easier…

On Tuesday night, around 8:30pm, John Smith was driving home after recently getting laid off at his work for his lack of attention to detail and his problems with controlling his anger. John made a stop by at a Speedway on his way home. He went in to buy some lottery tickets and some alcohol for his party he planned on having this upcoming weekend for the football playoffs. John got back to his car and scratched off his lottery tickets and did not win anything to his dismay. Angered more now,…

Project 1: Making Observations and Inferences Observation: Last week, I went to Target Store with my mom. We were getting out of the subway when I saw a big crowd on the street. I saw some police officers putting on barricades and stretching yellow police tape to prevent people and cars from going on that street. Then, I notice some debris including a half part of a bicycle scattered around the street. Walking further toward the store, I saw a black sedan in the middle of the street and a gray…

Electric cars are better than gasoline powered vehicles because there maintenance is low cost. Brad Berman explains that, “The common assumption is $0.12 a kilowatt-hour for electricity and about $4.00 a gallon of gasoline”(“Total Cost of Ownership of an Electric Car” par.4). In other words, there is 1,000 watts in a kilowatt for one hour. Gasoline is very expensive, but to charge the battery of an electric vehicle is far less inexpensive than gasoline. Charging the battery for an electric…

Unit 6 Assignment Annotated Bibliography Jill Benoit Kaplan University Annotated Bibliography Life happens in a blink of an eye, and mine and my daughter’s did just that the last day of 2015. It only takes that one second to change everything you know and love. Making others aware of these numbers, and hearing real stories from teens to teens could promote greater awareness of the dangers of distracted driving. Studies have shown that we are losing our youth today from…

“Last Night I Drove a Car” was written by Gregory Corso after his release from prison. He had been arrested three times and was finally beginning to turn his life around. He went through multiple jobs after getting out of prison the third time and eventually met Ginsberg who influenced his writing style. Many of his poems are about his time in jail or how that affected him and his outlook on life. The speaker of the poem is Gregory Corso. When he was a child Corso’s mom abandoned him after…