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Do you like driving in the sun, or the snow? Do you prefer a window full of ice or no windows at all? What type of scenery do you like? Are you for the cool or the heat? Driving in any weather or any season can be dangerous, but today we will be discussing the good things and the bad of driving in the winter and the summer. Driving in the winter can be extremely hazardous. If it snows in your winter, you may have to get a vehicle inspection. If your vehicle is not in the condition to be on a…

5 Steps to Declutter Your Vehicle If you’re like many Americans, you probably spend innumerable hours in your car. All of that time behind the wheel can lead to a messy interior. Clutter in your vehicle is distracting, and it may even cause an accident. Follow these 5 simple steps to declutter your vehicle and keep it that way. 1. Throw Out the Trash Start this project by getting rid of all of the garbage under the seats, in the glove compartment, and in the ashtray. Then, make your way to…

A recent article by Forbes magazine discusses the crash dilemma for self-driving cars. The specificities change from time to time but the crash dilemma stems from the idea of whether or not a self-driving car, when faced with no other option, crash into a specific person or its latter. An example of this would be if the car should crash into a group of elderly women crossing the street or into a kid who’s running across the street because he is late for school. In situations like this, there is…

Until I met Brandy, all I wanted was for somebody to ask me what happened to my face. “Birds ate it,” I wanted to tell them. Birds ate my face. But nobody wanted to know. Then nobody doesn’t include Brandy Alexander. Just don’t think this was a big coincidence. We had to meet, Brandy and me. We had so many things in common. We had close to everything in common. Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this…

I chose SpongeBob SquarePants for my advertisement because he does not own a vehicle. Additionally, SpongeBob SquarePants is a chaotic driver that repeatedly fails his driving test. Uber provides safe transportation for anyone that does not own a vehicle and/or is a reckless driver. He has attempted countless of times to successfully get his driver’s license but fails. His lack of driving skills will never allow him to own his own vehicle. Uber will allow SpongeBob to never drive the streets of…

We have seen many commercials or movie scenes that show the danger of texting while driving. As the driver took his or her eyes off the road in about only three seconds to read a text, they often got involved in a horrible accident that might cost their lives. We are very familiar with this kind of situation as they are all over the medias. In the front page of a newspaper, in the local news or in the story heard from your friend. Many people were killed in road accidents and it is increasing…

Two Recent Wootton High Graduates Die in Fatal Car Crash Late in the evening of Thursday, June 25th, 18 year old Samuel Ellis, of North Potomac, lost control of his 2006 Acura TSX, as he attempted to drive around a sharp bend in the 13800 block of Dufief Mill Road. The speed limit at this location is 35 mph and local police authorities stated that based on the evidence at the accident scene, Ellis was going over 65 mph. The conservative posted speed limit is partly because of the deep bend…

Transportation has a central bearing on public health. In the recent years, there has been a major concern on the rising cost of health care across the world. Statistics indicate that over 40 percent of the provincial budget in the United States is allocated to the health care sector. The cause and ways to mitigate diseases has been of great importance to policy makers. In fact, research indicates that a large extent of the diseases which pause a threat to public health are chronic and can be…

The first article analyzed was Reconstruction of Automobile Destruction: An Example of the Interaction Between Language and Memory conducted in 1974 by Elizabeth F. Loftus and John C. Palmer from the University of Washington. Loftus and Palmer were studying reconstructive memory and believed that questions asked to individuals following an event could reconstruct their memory of that event. They chose to test that hypothesis by asking 45 students of various sizes questions regarding short clips…

Distracted Driving Distracted driving is the practice of driving a motor vehicle while engaged in another activity. Most people think that the main distraction while driving is the use of a cell phone, however, this is entirely untrue. People partake in various activities while driving in their cars, causing distracted driving to be the primary reason for car crashes in the United States. Each day in the United States, over 8 people are killed and 1,161 are injured in car crashes that are…