The Driver

distraction rate for all drivers ages 16-20 years old is 82%.The main issue is that 10% of young adults are texting while behind the wheel and are outside of their lanes at the same time, not knowing that they are putting their lives and others in danger. Texting while driving makes you become blind for approximately 5 seconds and, it slows your brake reaction by a whole 18%. More than nine people are killed and over 1,153 are injured every day due to distracted drivers and 2,600 deaths and…

The question of the Uber drivers’ employment status has opened the class action floodgates. Within two weeks of the settlement of $100 million for class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts that sought driver reclassification from independent contractors to employees, Uber is fielding two new cases against their company. Following the California and Massachusetts case resolution, similar nationwide class-action lawsuits have been filed on behalf of Uber drivers in both Florida and…

Adam Smith and Marx & Engels understand UberX business model Uber, a smartphone application connecting Uber drivers and customers directly, enables customers to request an Uber cab to pick them up on site by simply tapping on their screen. Recently, Uber Company is undergoing waves of protests from drivers of UberX, a subdivision service of Uber in which drivers use their own vehicles. Drivers contend that they are earning much less than the company claims. This paper will first examine Adam…

programmed to ensure the life of the driver because the task is more manageable than ensuring the life of the pedestrian. The driver of the vehicle should be put first in this situation because ultimately it would create less casualties. If a self-driving car were to attempt to save the pedestrian, the idea itself would change the entire landscape that cars already have implemented: to save the driver inside. Selling a car that favors the pedestrian over the driver would result in people not…

prevent accidents caused by drivers that haven’t had enough sleep. By putting regulations on drivers, it limits the number of hours a driver can drive per day, week and the number of hours worked each week. According to Goel (2013), in December 2011 the FMCSA published new hours of service regulation in the United States. These regulations recognized the difference between on-duty time and off-duty time for tractor-trailers. The on-duty time refers to the time the driver is spent driving,…

into advantages. Manual transmission, or stick shift, provides luxuries such as nicer cars, cheaper prices, and joy, but it also provides the driver with necessities such as enhanced focus and more control. Although manual has a few disadvantages to automatic transmission, the atvantages for the driver out number the disadvantages by far. Even if the driver cannot decide between manual and automatic they have a mixed option of dual clutch. Whether a person is driving across the finish line,…

use their weapons so shooting at the vehicle should be done with skill and patience. I think shooting a vehicle before the driver gets a chance to drive away is a good thing. If the driver can’t drive away then they have no choice but to get out of the car. When they get out the car, the officer can then handle the situation in the area that they were already in. If the driver can…

basically stated that although drivers in all cities often believe that the drivers in their respective cities are the most dangerous, Miami was the home of the most "Darned" drivers in the world. He backed this up with examples which I will explain in this paper. Now these were not only…

2. (10 pts.) Referring to the table below, hiring a driver costs $10. Each machine costs $100. Which method should he use and why? a) Method 1: 20 drivers at $10 = $200 + 10 machines at $100 = $1,000) = $1,200 dollars b) Method 2: 50 drivers at $10 = $500 + 2 machines at $100 = $200) = $700 dollars c) Method 3: 100 drivers at $10 = $1,000 + 0 machines at $100 = $0) = $1,000 dollars d) Method 4: (10 drivers at $10 = $100 + 12 machines at $100 = $1,200) = $1,300 dollars Since the…

terminated immediately. Drivers’ use of cell phones while vehicles are in motion should be prohibited because it is a vision distractor, it is law enforced, and it is a hazard to other drivers and passengers. Most importantly, people should not use cell phones while driving because it distracts them, which causes them to look somewhere else other than the road. Some people can text or make calls on their cell phone when driving; however, they still get distracted. When a driver slows down the…