The Advanced Technology in Cars

* Car child lock – this stops a child from falling out of a car if they should open the door

Anti-Lock Brake System (ABS) is a combination of vehicle hardware and software that work together to maintain steering control and vehicle stability during hard braking. Initially developed as a special option for topof-the-line models, today’s ABS units are compact, easy to service, inexpensive and widely available. Now every major automotive manufacturer offers some form of ABS vehicle control that provides safe, maximum braking under all weather conditions and road surfaces.

Machines running, hammers dropping, and drills drilling are the sounds of Henry Ford’s revolutionary assembly line. Henry Ford grew up in the late eighteenth century during the industrial revolution. There were no electric lights, only gas lamps and candles. Horses and trains were the only cost effective way of transportation for the public. When Henry Ford was a child, he saw a steam driven car on the road and was mesmerized. At this point, he knew he longed to become a mechanic that works on cars. At the age of sixteen, Henry Ford got a job as an apprentice machinist in Detroit at the Detroit Dry Dock Company. Three years later he returned to work on the family farm, and became adept at operating the

Well things like OnStar and Roadside Assistance can get you out of that bad situation if it does occur. For about $17/month you can have OnStar be ready for whenever you need a tow or if your car gets stolen they’ll track it for you. And for your roadside assistance many have that through AAA [USA] or CAA [Canada] or through the insurance company you have but in my opinion, OnStar seems much better, but that is because i've had problems with my insurance company for that stuff (Top). Now what about to help you when you get t-boned by a semi or its icy out and you start sliding on the roads? Well side airbags and an ABS system will do a lot in those situations. Side airbags, self explanatory, they are airbags that are on the sides of you and keep you stable when you get into a wreck. So if you get t-boned by a semi, you probably will not be getting flung around in your car after you get hit. You are also probably wondering what an ABS is. Many cars have them including my 2000 Chevy S10. Well it’s short for Anti-Lock Brake System, it detects if a wheel is spinning faster or slower than the rest and will apply the brakes faster than a human could to keep those wheels spinning like they should. So if you start to slide, the ABS will definitely keep you going in the right direction (“Top”).

Task D1.1 – Compare a conventional hydro-mechanical anti-skid unit with a modern hydro-electronic anti-skid unit.

Introduction: I. Attention Statement – (Picture of the highway.) How many of you drive? Who took the highway today to get to school? II. Topic – Today I want to talk about Ralph Teetor and his invention of Cruise Control.

The crumple zone works by increasing time taken for the car lets say moving 70mph hitting a wall.. to 0mph. the deceleration is in a very short amount of time in a matter of seconds.. what the crumple zone does is that

With ABC, the driver is not able to disengage the system. ABC, is the Mercedes-Benz brand name used to describe fully active suspension, that allows control of the vehicle body motions and therefore virtually eliminates body roll in many driving situations including cornering, accelerating, and

Drivers oftentimes rely on anti-lock brakes to avoid this, but they are also prone to sliding and skidding. Icy road conditions account for 13% of all weather-related accidents. In addition, speed is the biggest threat on icy roads. Failing to control your speed increases the chance that you won’t have adequate time to stop before hitting another vehicle or object if you begin to slide.

A device that revolutionized the automotive world. It made it much safer to drive or ride in a car. The seatbelt is something all cars have now a days and something that is enforced by the law to wear. People use these everyday and will use them or some type of seatbelt for the rest of humanity. It keeps us safe well we are traveling and has saved countless of lives in

The addition of the Collision Mitigation Braking System™, standard on all but two of the models, makes sure that you stop by delivering brake pressure if sensors detect an obstacle in your path like another car.

Popularity of ABS II. What ABS do and don’t do A. In normal breaking conditions B. In

A locked-up wheel provides low road handling force and minimal steering force. Therefore, the main benefit of ABS operation is to maintain directional control of the vehicle during emergency braking.

A seat belt is a long strap attached to a car seat, this tool was designed to keep the passenger in place when in a collision. According to, Traffic with a smile, “ Today, the seat belt serves to protect drivers and passengers from injury during any type of collision.” Tnsafety.org says, “More than 50% of vehicle occupants killed in crashes in Tennessee were not wearing seat belts.” There are many people that die everyday, because they had a collision and were not wearing a seatbelt.

Civil engineers formed the physical concept of runaway ramps on a declining road surface in order to enhance the safety for passengers in the rare situation a brake failure occurs; this can be associated to the investigation into braking distance in relation to the coefficient of friction. Physics particularly focuses on a subject otherwise known as motion; this has many practical applications in modern society. One of which is in relation to vehicles and the elements of physics that reason the stopping distance of the vehicle. Theories have been devised in order to develop an understanding as to how and why a vehicle reaches rest even without the intervention of human force. The following investigation analyses the braking distances of the vehicle on multiple different surfaces. To begin with, the investigation attempts to replicate the realistic situation of a runaway ramp found on declining road surfaces in the effort to allow optimal safety in the circumstance of brake failure. The objective of the ramp is to provide an adjacent surface deviating from the main section of the road that acts as a braking system for the vehicle [1]; this is completed through the utilisation of different surfaces such as gravel or sand (see Appendix 1.1). This specifically is referred to as the arrester bed, one of multiple methods of a runaway ramp utilised world-wide and the individual system relevant to the investigation. Physical concepts are apparent through the study of runaway ramps,