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including them. Jacqueline Howard is a CNN journalist that supports this clause by referring to the NHTSA. Howard states that “The average incremental cost of equipping a large school bus with seat belts would be between $7,346 and $10,296, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated at a public meeting last year” (Howard 1). There are two ways of including seat belts, either retrofitting the current vehicles or producing a new one. Retrofitting would cost more than the latter…

For example, failing to notify the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a dangerous pedal defect for almost four months this is the very reason why NHTSA enacted the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act in 1966. The NHTSA wanted to address the underlying factors of Toyota…

Through recent years many teens and adults alike have been involved into car accidents. The type of accidents varies form person to person. Rather be something as small as being distracted while driving or trivial like speeding. There is one type of accident that has been occurring a lot lately. Drunk driving or driving under the influence has been a reoccurring issue through out the years and it doesn’t seem to going away anytime soon. Not only has drunk driving been a reoccurring issue but…

Derek is a 10 year old, third grade student, who will be entering the fourth grade next school year. Derek’s results from standardized test indicate that he has above average general intelligence and is reading on a second grade reading level. Derek is able to apply a phonetic decoding strategy when attempting to decode words. Derek writes with a cursive writing style, typical of students his age. According to recent achievement testing, Derek has a below average scores for word identification…

Have you ever been on a highway with fields, interesting artifacts, and buildings? Route 66 had highways that are sometimes curvy and sometimes flat and straight, but how did Route 66 affect the United States during the early years. There was a writer named William least-Heat Moon that described Route 66 as the Blue Highway. As you keep on reading you will know about Route 66 and it's interesting facts. Route 66 is the famous highway that goes from Chicago to Santa Monica, California. Route…

sure the car was ready for the trip. We are about to see if Picher was really the ghost town it was said to be. As we left our hometown Frogville we headed north on highway 70 to start the trip. It felt like Ryan and I were the only people driving on the highway. We then headed north on highway 147 were we had our first setback. Highway 147 was backed up with traffic that wasn’t moving. Ryan was looking at the map to see if there was another way around all the traffic. We were stuck and the…

During the 1920s, the automobile industry was growing. There were about ten million registered cars during this time. Federal highway officials knew they needed to add more roads and highway systems capable for many Americans to drive on. (Crapanzano) A man named Cyrus Avery, Oklahoma real estate agent and coal company owner, and John Woodruff, a highway official, both had a vision of having a “superhighway” from Chicago to Los Angeles. This would help bring many industries and companies from…

The impact of roads and highways on the socio-economic development is obvious as it fosters growth, enhances mobility and provides easy accessibility to both national and international level markets. Many countries have been able to achieve economic development and growth through developing their physical infrastructure which provided the basic platform to these nations and open new doors of socio-economic development through enhancement of trade and insurance of smooth flow of productions,…

incredible the way it represents the United States Of America. You can not find a road or highway like this anywhere else. This magical highway is a highway that will your breath away when you cruise down it. Route 66 represents America in a way nothing else in the USA does. Literally traveling down this ancient highway is like traveling back in time in the twentieth century ; literally all you see down this blue highway is family owned stores and rural towns or cities what you wouldn't get…

The Blue Highway was also unique. Let's find out how the Blue Highway became so popular and how it became so amazing! Did you know that Route 66 is very popular? Blue Highway is popular because it represents America where people can open a small business or even a tourist attraction. It also takes you back to what it used to look like in the 1900's. Also around every corner of the famous Blue Highway there was always something new, different, and interesting. Blue Highways connect…