Rear-end collision

compare the behavior of cell phone drivers and ethanol intoxicated drivers with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08% weight/volume (Strayer, Drews, & Crouch, 2006). The participants were to tailgate a pace car and react to it accordingly to avoid a collision. The experiment lasted for 10 hours and was divided into three separate sections spanning over three days. Each session was completed in each day. In the first session, the drivers were allowed to familiarize themselves with the driving…

compressor was then turned on until the pressure dropped to approximately -50kN/m2. The knurled brass cap on the rear of the coupling (6) on the fluid chamber was removed to vent the chamber to atmosphere. The oil was then transferred from the fluid chamber to the measuring chamber until it reached 150mm by carefully opening the oil control valve (14). After that, the knurled brass cap on the rear of the coupling was put back on. The blue hose from coupling (5) was disconnected afterwards. The…

A Philosophical Approach In the 1978, three teenagers died after the Ford Pinto they were in was involved in a low spread rear-ended collision. This was not the first time that a death was the outcome of Ford Pinto being involved in a low speed rear end collision. The Ford Pinto was designed and released in a quick time period in 1971 (Trevino & Nelson, 2014, p. 64). Although it was discovered during the testing of the Pinto that the gas tank had a flaw, Ford decided to move forward with the…

The three girls died because the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank ruptured from the collision and burst into flames. This was not the first incident where a Pinto had caught flames. The Pinto was being investigated and there was some debate about the safety of the Ford Pinto, especially its vulnerability to catching fire in low-speed rear-end collisions, (Textbook). Another fatality caused by the Pinto’s fuel tank was on May 28, 1972, when Mrs. Gray, accompanied by 13-year-old…

First, it delays everyone, as was evidenced by the seven miles of stopped traffic we sat in to get to the area. Second, slowing can cause more accidents. Like in racing when they say 'cautions breed cautions,' repeated stopping brings on rear end collisions, which then leads to more delays. Thirdly, people in traffic are frustrated. That leads to people cutting others off and yelling. Once the scene of the accident is passed, it also causes everyone that was sitting there for hours to rapidly…

The three type or drivers are the safe drivers, the moderately safe drivers, and the dreaded and completely unsafe drivers. People like to think that they are good drivers but the truth is that there are way more people who are unsafe than there are safe. It is a proven fact based off of National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that men are more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash than women. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports also show that…

During the Ford Pinto scandal that occurred in the 1970’s, Ford executives failed to take action to correct a potentially fatal flaw in the Pinto’s design that causing a fire hazard due to disconnecting the fuel line from the fuel tank during rear-end collisions. In an attempt to compete with the foreign subcompact market, Ford rushed the Pinto leading to “one of the shortest production planning periods in modern automotive history: just 25 months, when the normal time span was 43 months”…

cars on the right lane behind senior citizens; watching nice expensive cars pass by. But I learned and moved on from my past mistake, and started focusing on becoming a better driver. It was mid March on a Friday, and my senior year was coming to an end. A month prior to today, me and my dad had just fixed the car that has been parked for a few years now. It was a 2008 Lexus IS F; the steering rack was broken, so after using two thousand dollars I had saved for a while it was back in excellent…

Cal. Rptr. 863 Facts: The Krouse family was returning from a grocery shopping trip and their car was parked on the curb. When Elizabeth (the wife) and Vinka Mladinov (neighbor) were returning to shut the door of the car, Graham hits a curb and rear ends the parked car. This results in the hitting the neighbor (Mladinov) and Elizabeth (the mother). The impact caused the neighbor to fly 20 feet into an embankment causing her injuries and hurled Elizabeth under the defendant’s vehicle resulting in…

Strategy Council program was launched to study and reduce, or eliminate the problems faced by customers and bus operators due to frequent maintenance to the fire/explosion suppression system that prevents fuel cells from exploding if struck from the rear by another vehicle. Consequently, the continuous maintenance problems led to the unsuccessful penetration into new markets; therefore, the Old Sarge Strategy Council determined that improving the fuel cell fire/explosion protection system…