Driver & Vehicle Agency

of potential and risk. For example in the CNN article, Driverless cars create a safety 'dilemma': passengers vs. pedestrians, by Jacqueline Howard describes the decision of who to save by driverless cars. One of the questions asked was “Should the vehicle know to swerve into a wall and sacrifice its passengers to avoid the pedestrians, or should it protect its passengers at all costs?” (Howard). The results survey posted in the Science Magazine by the American Association of the Advancement of…

1.) The challenges that Tata Motors faced during moving from producing commercial vehicles line to producing passenger cars: First of all Tata Motors was into the business of integrated commercial vehicles, but as after post-independence govt. of India reserved the production of Locomotives exclusively for state owned enterprises. Than Tata motors decided to diversify itself in heavy commercial vehicles in 1954. Market competition which is a part of industry environment that directly plays a…

"The cars we drive say a lot about us." Alexandra Paul once proclaimed. In a world of transportation, there comes a time when one needs to decide whether or not they would like to buy a vehicle. There are plenty of vehicles to choose from, but not that many types of engines. To the average person, there seems to be a lot of differences between them, but they are quite similar. There are two main types of engines, diesel fuel and gasoline engines. Diesel fuel and gasoline are both refined…

from cheap foreign imports by imposing quotas on the number of imported cars is a Pareto improvement. This is because having high quality cars will benefit many and help to ensure the vehicle safety of individuals. Reducing cheap foreign imports would have a positive impact on reducing externalities involving vehicles and roads. Increasing Social Security benefits, financed by an increase in the payroll tax is a Pareto improvement because it is potentially making some individuals better by…

moving to a 'sharing economy', where a dominant part of the populace is depending on taxi aggregators, for example, Ola and Uber to drive to work, more individuals are currently quitting acquiring their own particular vehicles. Purchasers dependably have the alternative to lease vehicles for outstation trips. Zoomcar is the most conspicuous player in the auto rental space and had as of late raised a $25 million arrangement C round, drove by Ford Motor Company. Coming to two-wheelers, there are…

Strengths: As we know, the biggest advantage of Uber is that the company has large number of taxi drivers compared to other companies. According to washingtonpost.com, currently Uber has about 160,000 active drivers compared to 50,000 drivers from yellow taxi cab and the number of Uber drivers keeping increasing every day (Figure 1). Based on data from New York Post, there are more Uber cars than yellow taxis on the road in NYC. Uber currently has about 14,100 black and luxury cars affiliated…

effect is evident when the drivers may continue to drive fast in roads where the speed limit is not increased Steven M. Rock [18] studied the effect of 65 mph speed in Illinois and also support the general notion that increase in speed limit to 65 mph increased the crash frequency. The method he adopted was ARIMA method (Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Method). Rock [18] assumes that the increase in 65 mph roads could be also attributed to the increase in vehicle miles travel due to…

causes for the rise in people using Grab Cars and Uber which are high quality service, fair pricing system and easy to use and understand. First and foremost, Grab car and Uber have high quality service compare with others public transportation. Driver of Grab car and Uber they are not going to use common. They are using their car ownership during operating time. For example, taxi`s…

applied in to the particular vehicle model such as Focus, Fiesta, and Ecosport. However, plaintiff who had the particular car model with “PowerShift” transmission found the obvious problem when they drove the car. The car would slip, buck, jerk and harshly engage when driven. Thus, it would make the plaintiff to have difficulties to stop the car when met sudden or delayed acceleration. Furthermore, due to the transmission problem, the plaintiff returned back the vehicle to dealerships to get…

Power wheelchairs have two main modules: the base (formed by the batteries, the controller, the wheels and the motors) and the seating system. The wheels configuration will have a direct effect on the wheelchair’s performance in different situations. As we have two types of wheels (drive wheels and castors), depending on how they are positioned and how the weight is distributed, they will be more or less efficient in different situations, environments, terrains, etc. The first critical…