devastating accident on County Road B-14. They were travelling east towards Forest City in Tiffany’s Pontiac Grand Am when Tiffany lost complete control and crossed over the center line onto the alternative lane. Her vehicle violently collided with another car venturing the opposing direction, and there was nothing that she could do to avoid the westbound automobile. The two sisters were immediately pronounced dead at the site of the accident (Krug). Although there is nothing anyone can do…
Everyday Americans are always on route to work, school, or play. Cars are constantly passing each other every day, but nobody really knows what happens inside of the vehicle. Distracted Driving is an issue that affects and changes many people’s lives daily. From the victim to the suspect of the accident, both sides are impacted greatly. Some of the problems do not even come from the distracted drivers themselves. Cell phone companies and automakers are coming up with the most up to date…
The 2008 is the first year that is was classified as a full-size car. When you do maintenance on your Accord, make sure that you use OEM Honda parts because they are optimized to meet the factory standards and last as long as the original. Air Filters – A fresh air filter goes a long way towards ensuring that the air…
IB Candidate Number: gwv306 Contents I. Introduction 3 II. Findings and Analysis 4 III. Synthesis of tools 8 IV. Conclusion 8 V. Supporting Documents 8 VI. Bibliography 9 Introduction After going public with their first car, the Tesla Roadster, in the United States, Tesla quickly became an internationally recognized innovative and progressive company in the green technology market (Radius World Wide). As an internationally renowned company in the sustainability…
people that electric vehicles could be better, quicker, and more fun to drive than gasoline cars (Tesla, n.d). During the early years of its incorporation, Tesla was primarily backed by one of the co-founders of PayPal, Elon Musk. In 2006, Musk released a statement titled “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)" where he outlined the future for the company as follows: “build sports car,…
to driverless cars or normal cars. But other people say that transportation is dangerous and unsafe. What’s the problem about saying that transportation is dangerous? People won’t use transportation when they need it. They won’t understand that it is easy to use, fast, and safe. Transportation can help many people go home faster and easier than before. Instead of taking 351 hours to get to Washington, Seattle you can take an airplane that will take “2 hours and 9 minutes”. On a car it will take…
the car on track within lanes without human input. It did this by tracking metal strips embedded within test roads. GM saw metal road implants as ‘the highway of the future’. Unfortunately this was not so, as a result the feature was never introduced to the public. Although never released worldwide, this feature’s development and innovation helped inspire future iterations and developments of the then primitive ideology of autonomous driving. The company did go on to build further concept cars…
Electric cars versus Gas powered cars Cars are an important part of the human life. It is used for everyday tasks such as commuting to work, school, and events. Humans love to find the fastest, most cost-effective ways to get a job done. Even though the job gets done faster doesn’t mean it 's the most ethical way being done. At the time of the Industrial Revolution is when advanced machinery and mechanics were introduced into society. Creating the need to have better transport for…
of the United States passenger car market. (Press, n.d.) The increasing regulations to emissions, fuel consumption, and alternative automotive power methods away from gasoline are also affecting factors of the automotive global competition.…
Leadership Profile: Elon Musk Introduction: Elon Musk is arguably one of the greatest leaders in business and innovation of the past few decades, and possibly into the future. As an adolescent, Elon Musk came to the realization that the most difficult thing was to come up with the right question. After much reflection, he decided the question that would shape the rest of his life: what things would have the greatest impact on the future of humanity’s destiny. Since then, Elon Musk has created…