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    Railroad Track Safety

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    There are many dangers when you are around a railroad track. There are many safety features to help keep pedestrians and cars safe. Some of these safety features include, lights, alarms, arms, lines, and signs. These are here to help keep you and others around you safe. You are 40 times more likely to be killed in a collision with a train than you are with another car. The difference between a car and a train is like a car to a 12-ounce soda can. Imagine how easy it is to crush a soda can with…

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    Illinois Route 53 is a road that thousands of people utilize everyday, with so many people commuting on it, there are talks about expansion to help speed up commutes, however, Route 53 should not be extended because the project would be costly for commuters, homeowners, and the general taxpayers. One way that it is costly is simply the cost of the projects. The expansion is projected to cost from 2.2 billion to 2.7 billion dollars of taxpayer money. What this will be used for it to buy the land…

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    of large commercial vehicles travel hundreds of thousands of miles across Alabama, and all of the U.S., each year. Despite safety standards and protocols, auto accidents involving large trucks occur all too often. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, approximately 95,000 people across the U.S. were injured in truck accidents in 2013. Nearly 4,000 people were killed in such collisions that same year. While there are a number of factors, which contribute to trucking…

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    While driving on the highway, a driver decides that he/she should speed, just to get to his/her destination faster, and the person feels like there is no harm done if he/she gets caught speeding, since it is not that big of deal, since it is not a violent or major crime, so what harm can be done? Frank Trippett, in the article, “A Red Light for Scofflaws”, suggests that more and more ordinary citizens are becoming scofflaws, people who break the law casually, because they feel like law and…

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    Road Rage Research Paper

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    road. This website also went over the CRAAP test well also, it provided all information defining what road rage is, how it starts, who gets road rage usually and how to prevent it. For another person's experience with violent road rage I found a news article of a teen getting up to 100 years prison in road-rage killing. Christian Hillman, 19 years old, after beating a 64-year-old to death in a church parking lot during a road rage incident. Then I had asked a teacher/driving instructor from…

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    Road Rage Research Paper

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    According to the reports of Dubious Dangers on roadways And Campuses, road rage is intimidating people in the cities by these type of assaults. Seemingly, those homicidal strangers who are hacking others are taking control over the streets and concerning normal drivers. Investigations are alarming the vicinity, and apparently road rage is not the cause of most of the murders in those roadways. The journal also includes about abortions and the studies of breast cancer. Abortions were the cause…

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    The maximum speed for vehicles travelling on Australian highways is currently 110km/h. It is argued that this speed is too slow for a highway and may cause more road accidents and increase the road toll due to the drivers being restricted by the speed limit. When the speed limit is slow, drivers are left dangerously stuck behind and in-between trucks. The drivers are also too frustrated about not going above the low speed limit which can act as a distraction. (Tucker, 2015) Therefore, the…

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    There are other aspects that would allow a driver to refuse to driver if the driver thought that the weather was bad enough to not be able to drive safely. In the case of TransAm Trucking Inc v. Alphonse Maddin (Shumaker, 2016) the issue was the temperature and the type of mechanical issue that Mr. Maddin experienced. In January 2009 Mr. Maddin was driving in Illinois on Interstate 88 when he stopped while looking for a fuel stop at 11 pm. He was low on fuel and when he stopped the brakes on his…

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    it and maneuver it around in a safe manner The third section of the test pays attention to evaluating your safe driving skills. Along with visual search methods, you will also be tested on the timely use of driving signals. Bringing weather and traffic conditions into the picture, this test provides a holistic assessment of how you can control the speed of your vehicle during testing times. You will also be assessed on the appropriate positioning of your vehicle while initiating a turn or when…

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    So because they felt bad they knew how the student was feeling and wanted help them out so they don’t feel how they felt in their dream or childhood. Humanism Humanism approach could explain this situation by having the person decide whether they wanted to do the right thing and help the student out. Also they could examine the event and the feelings the student was feeling at that time to help them out. Neurobiological Neurobiological approach cannot explain this situation because…

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