westbound lanes of Fletcher Avenue closed to traffic between 20th Street and 19th Street, with a smaller area cordoned off with yellow crime scene tape. Looking at the roadway inside the crime scene tape, I saw several pieces of clear…
This game has many factors that contribute to the goal of the game. The first factor is, the champion you choose to play as. This will determine how you play, what items you buy, and what lane you will be in. The second factor is what role you will fulfill. What role you fulfill will greatly affect your play style. You could be supporting your team, assassinating enemy champions, or many other things. The last factor is laning. This…
providing a safer driving environment. With Intellidrive, the smart road will inform the driver of the smart car of every other cars’ exact position and its speed. The driver will then be able to determine exactly when it is safe enough to switch lanes. In addition, drivers will be warned if the cars up ahead have begun to break so they can start slowing down to avoid a collision. With IntelliDrive, the rate of car accidents and deaths by car accidents will drop…
intersection of Redwood Boulevard and the southbound lanes of Sheldon Road had been closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic with crime scene tape and marked patrol vehicles. I then met with Cpl. L. Rivera and Det. Parsons, who advised of the circumstances of the incident and what occurred. I forensically mapped the crash scene using a Sokkia Total Station. (Serial #: 147397) The data collected at the scene was downloaded into…
When a wheel separates from a semi-truck, it can strike a pedestrian, crash into the ground-floor room of a building through a window or glass door, or strike other motor vehicle traffic. Some of the worst accidents occur when a wheel crosses into the lane of oncoming traffic and collides head-on with a vehicle. Wheel-off accidents are usually caused by improper tightening of the wheel lug nuts. Here are three common ways this happens: The Lug Nuts Are Over Tightened Lug nuts hold a tire in…
Description and Summary Conover, Ted. The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World. New York: Vintage, 2011. Print. The Routes of Man: Travels in the Paved World is an interesting book about the author, Ted Conover, who travels to various destinations to discover how roads connect people and the effects on the world. On his adventures he meets many people along the way. On each journey, he usually knows someone or has some type of connection to a person who has been to or lives in the…
licenses. All these people have different skills, behaviors and moods. In fact, many young drivers do not care about other people on the road and do not realize the real danger of their bad habits. For example, cars are switching from one lane to the other lane, and then back again without signaling, or they are weaving in and out of traffic. There are many similar examples which tell about the effects of dangerous habits of today’s drivers. It is very important to understand that on today’s…
I live in portland. The city has transformed a lot over the years. Biking is the new norm in, and if you don’t bike what is the point of living in portland. Bikers are vehicles now and they have same sized lanes as the cars. They have their own special traffic lights and have all the advantages of a car plus the perks of a pedestrian. Though I have lived here all my life I am still not used to them riding all over the streets. They still seem to fill me with anger. I don’t like bikers they…
Essay A There is a straight road in my hometown that in one coincidental way or another has shaped my entire life. The road is known as Junction Highway, and every place that has ever been important to me I have gotten to by using this road. On Junction Highway I have driven home from school feeling exhausted from whatever practice that I experienced that day, but still smiling as I rolled the windows down on my 2005 baby blue beetle, and let the fragrant hill country breeze blow my hair in…
brights on. Driving without using turn signals really grinds my gears. Driving without using turn signals really grinds my gears. When the person in front of you is coming up on a turn and they start to slow down their speed to make the turn into a new lane or to get onto a new road can cause something bad to happen. If you are a driver with some bad road rage and someone turns or…