Transport phenomena

Based on the sample schedule above, the Maersk Ohio spent 178.2 hours in port ( 7 days 10 hours) and 493.8 hours at sea ( 20 days 14 hours). Using the metric of 8760 hours in a year, the Maersk Ohio could theoretically complete about 13 voyages a year. The Atlantic crossing, after leaving the East Coast is when the Maersk Ohio typically carries around 3200 TEU’s (Capt Leville). While leaving Le Havre, France we were typically fully loaded with around 4120 to 4140 TEUs (Voyage Abstract). To…

Some Inventions Stick Others Roll Robert Rodriguez’s “Marketing New Inventions” is an essay about inventions not going the way people envisioned. The first example Rodriguez gives is the mother and daughter Fresno duo, who were the first to invent the hide-and-seek Hayley doll, a product that made itself known on many nations’ largest toy stores. However, hide-and-seek Hayley became obsolete once Care Bear came out with their version of the hide-and-seek toy. Getting idea’s stolen is common…

As the goal of this study is to gauge the appeal of purchasing an autonomous Lamborghini car, we had to test what degree of autonomy is most influential in determining its desirability. By degree of autonomy, we mean is the car fully autonomous, where the driver would need to do nothing else except turn the car on and off to get to his/her destination; or is the car semi-autonomous, where the car only has self-parking features. To test our new brand extension idea, we must assess and determine…

I use to love traveling. You could tell me we were going on a cross-country road trip, and l would be the first one in the car. There was something about the feeling of venturing off onto a new, foreign terrain that had me excited. It felt like l was free, like there were no boundaries to where l could go. A lot of things have changed since then. I’m scared to travel now. You could tell me we were going on a cross-country road trip, and l would be the first one to try and talk you out of it.…

From SIRI to autonomous cars, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to grow rapidly. Today, artificial intelligence is known as narrow AI (or weak AI), as it is designed to perform a narrow task, for example, voice recognition only or only driving a car. “Researchers’ long-term goal is to create artificial general intelligence (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, general AI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.” (Tegmark,…

Case Study – “Who's Got a Secret?” There is an important meeting to decide what advertising slogan the company will use to sell a new sports car, the Panther. The slogans are: (1) Pick the fast cat – a Panther, (2) Panther – the chief of the sleek, and (3) Put your partner in it Panther – and glide. Five people are involved in the decision-making process. Malik is in charge of the meeting in which the decision is to be made. Maria, Sonny, Saima, and Patrus are the others involved in the…

Road trip with a toddler – 9 practical tips when you’re on the road Our family has travelled quite a few kilometres by car. Long distance driving can be exhausting but you can make it more pleasant by preparing for it beforehand. The most important thing is to enjoy the road trip without rushing around. 9 practical tips when you’re on the road 1. Safety comes first • Make sure the baby car seat is securely installed before you head on the road. • Make sure you have all the…

If you were asked to picture the perfect future, what would it have? Many people would have said something that would contribute to life becoming a little easier. Self-driving cars will be the first step in becoming that perfect future. Self-driving cars will bring positive contributions to the communities with handicapped or the elderly. Further, they will also help with situations like avoiding accidents, and self-driving cars will also help with saving money. Sooner or later, self-driving…

The transportation industry creates millions of jobs ranging from truck drivers to uber drivers. Unfortunately, Self driving technology is putting these jobs at risk. In the article “A World Without Work” by author Derek Thompson, the question is formed, “Will my profession be taken over by machinery?” If self driving vehicles are created correctly, then it will soon be illegal for a human driver to be behind the wheel. These vehicles will be much safer than human driven vehicles by limiting…

If you were to dive or even go for short rids in the car you might want to knew what is thee dest car truck. So like if you want to knew the gas mileage on the high way or even in the towns and city. You even might want to know what the dest car or truck for having kids. I car and a truck have many thing income they also have many thing that are different. Some of the thing that are smilier are that you can use the same gas. You also can talk them for a lot longer ride or rode trips with out…