Rapid transit

Self-driving cars Self-Driving Cars are becoming the newest cause for controversy on whether or not they should be driven in public. There is an argument for both, but Self-Driving cars should not be driven in public. These cars are going to make traffic even more dangerous. First, an argument that many people have said is that the technology just is not safe. Huge improvements need to be made for these cars to be able to be driven safely on the streets. They also rely primarily on…

Importing cars into the U.S is a lot harder than it needs to be. The U.S. customs and border protection makes laws with the department of transportation regulating what cars can come into the states. I personally feel that some of these laws are pointless. Some cars in the JDM market aren’t allowed into the U.S. for reasons such as headlights, bumpers, seatbelts, and other minor things. “If you want to bring these cars in you have three options. You can bring them to compliance, bring in as a…

Team Member Contributions On this project I worked with Savanna Addis and Jared Liddle. They were awesome partners on this project. In the first stages; Savanna came up with the starting idea for our car as well as the main points of our test plan. In the days that followed directly after we adjusted the plans and drawings, but the work was still based off of Savanna’s original ideas. Jared ended up building our first car. This car was a great start to help us figure out some problems in our…

Bilger, Burkhard. "Has the Self-Driving Car Arrived at Last?" The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2013 Burkard, a two-time winner of The National Magazine awards writes a thought provoking article about the possibility of an accident and delay free commute made reality by a ground breaking invention, Google’s driverless car. This revolutionary idea stemmed from Google X, a semi-secret lab for experimental technologies. Burkhard states that someday a self-driving car may “save your life” (par7) as Americans…

Do We Need Driverless Cars? Many people believe that driverless cars could transform the roads. If successful, they could enhance safety; conserve energy and better protection to the environment (Cimons 1). Driving is how you get things done. The arrival of the mass-produced car, just over a century ago, caused an explosion of business creation. First came the makers of cars and all the parts that go into them. Then came the garages, filling stations and showrooms (Schumpeter). Yet it also stops…

Being safe and secure aren’t the only problem with autonomous cars. As an ever-increasing number of driverless cars begin to show up on the streets, many people will start to lose employment. Joblessness will crawl up on individuals who make a fair living by driving things around. In the book “Driverless: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead” it says that “driverless cars will sound the final death knell to the jobs of roughly 233,700 cabbies and chauffeurs employed in the United States.” Some…

Introduction The San Francisco BART is an important rapid transit system that connects San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa and San Mateo. It is open 365 days a year and operates between 4 a.m. to midnight on weekdays, Saturdays from 6 a.m. to midnight and Sundays from 8 a.m. to midnight. In 2015, BART had about 126 million annual passengers and a weekday average of 423,120 passengers. Saturdays see an average of 207,539 users and Sundays have an average daily ridership of 151.562 people. The…

Located in Newark, New Jersey Transit was founded by New Jersey Department of public transportation from the act of 1979, its mission to provide safe, reliable, convenient service with a skilled team of employees, dedicated to Customers’ needs and committed to excellence. NJ Transit purchased the largest private bus company to operate, later added the rail road operations. In 1984, both department of the organizations merge with NJ Transit Mercer to establish a combined organization with the…

Transportation Comission’s meeting was held on Dec 8, 2015, and several of the city’s managers attended the meeting. The commission, along with all of the city managers were concerned about these issues. “Although there is a diversity with public transit for the elderly and disabled in this county, there are many people who are not receiving services due to their geographic area or lack of enough seniors in the community” stated Naomi Armenta, who is the paratransit coordinator of ACTC. She…

Transportation is a problem in Crest Hill, Illinois. In Crest Hill, there are many variables that makes it hard for the elderly population to get around. There is no public bus system that come to Crest Hill, the nearest bus is in Joliet and it is a twenty-minute walk. There is no side walk to get to the bus stop making hard for the elderly or the disable to get there. Although there isn’t a lot of public transportation options in Crest Hill, there still is private transportation options.…