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Braking assistant for cars to help people be aware of upcoming obstacles. You are driving down the road and you aren't paying attention because of some side distractions and there is an upcoming obstacle and with your braking assistant it would alarm you and make sure you stop in time to not crash into the obstacle. Braking assistant helps you to apply more force to the braking of your car because more than 90%(www.wikipedia.com) of drivers fail to brake with enough force before colliding with…

If you know you want to explore life on the road, and you don’t want your house to be permanently in one location, you need to seriously consider if a class A motor or a 5th wheel is the best driving and living choice for you. The Driving Set-Up One of the biggest differences between a class A motor home and 5th wheel is how they are set up and how you drive them. With a class A motor home, you are driving around a giant house on wheels. The driver’s seat is generally shaped like a captains…

Underride accidents occur when a car goes partially or fully underneath a truck or trailer in a collision. When the car goes fully under the truck, the risk of death is high. This type of car and truck accident typically happens when the car rear-ends the trailer of the truck or collides into the side of the trailer. Although trucks with trailers are required to have rear underride guards, the guards can fail when they have a weak design, are defective, or are weak from corrosion. Because there…

The Jetsons bringing futuristic imagination to life from the 1960s. In the cartoon, the Jetsons are a family living in a more advanced world with advanced technology in the future. Three pieces of technology in the Jetsons that we have today that I seen in the video are, cars , robots and vending machines. One of the first pieces of technology that I saw in the Jetsons video was a car or a saucer is what they called it. In the show, I seen in the beginning George Jetson was flying or driving…

Are self driving cars ready to be released to the public? Many say that driving is very liberating when you have not driven a car in a while, but what if you never had to actually drive ever again? Self driving cars are a concept that is still being worked on with major companies such as Google and Tesla. They are the leading companies in the race to create a completely self driving car where computers take the steering wheel and you can just sit back and relax while heading off to your next…

In the article, “ Driverless cars will change everything”, Simon Kuper starts his article by mentioning how self driving cars are becoming a reality and may get deployed by 2020. He also explains how self driving cars will change everything around us by listing the advantages and disadvantages. I do agree with Kuper that drive-less cars will change our life. We don't have to worry about gas prices going up, most of the cars will be electric, as a fact pollution will drop. We don't have to…

Even though driverless cars help people,it can have up sides but down sides also to these auto-pilot vehicles. Here are reasons why these self driving transportation can be a not so good ideas. 1. Sometimes, there will be some human error that can injure someone or worse. Take, for instance, the case of the google's self-driving car that came to a crosswalk and did what it need to do: slow down to allow people to cross. But the driver panicked and hit the breaks. Luckily,no one was injured but…

Are self-driving cars safe? As technology advances, cars are becoming more enhanced and innovative. For instance, Tesla Motors launched a vehicle that is electric and drives itself, with the supervision of a human. However, other manufacturers/ companies, like Google and Uber, want to get rid of the steering wheel and pedals, to make the vehicle fully driverless. In the article, “When robots and humans take turns at the wheel,” Russ Mitchell explains the possible safety outcomes of…

We conducted an iteration lab, where we were supposed to do 5 different iterations to our coaster car. But we didn’t have enough time to complete all of the iterations. But we successfully completed 2 of the iterations. For our first iteration we replaced rubber tires to both sets of wheels. We recorded 3 trials and the veer of each trial. This iteration had a good impact on our coaster car because the distance was so high and the veer was average. So we decided to keep this iteration. For our…