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    all drivers.B. SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade all drivers that the government should enactlaws to ban the use of cell phones while driving.C. CENTRAL IDEA: Driving and using cell phones whether hand-held or hand-freeis dangerous to drivers, pedestrians and other motorists.1. INTRODUCTION A. KEY POINT #1: Cell phone usage while driving is

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    suffer the wrath of the wretched bikers! 3 points and solution if you’re a driver, you can endanger your life as well as others, but you’ll be one who’s gonna get blamed In the night, it’s hard to see bikes because not all have lights. As a driver, pedestrian, or anything else, you must be the one who’s extra careful. (you can’t exactly focus on the road if you’re focusing on the people around it.) If bikes have their own lanes, then why don’t other vehicles such as scooters, skateboards, and other boards

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    green light. The space between lanes in a two-way street in United States can be used to make a conversion and you can stop there until be safe to turn. For pedestrians in Brazil we have the rules that pedestrians always has the preferential like here but we fail about have a good conduct about it. In Brazil we are not respectful with pedestrians or cyclist; unfortunately we have several cases of accidents due the drivers’

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    correct address. If there are no traffic signs or road markings to guide you, your concentration will be further divided. Anything that prevents you from giving your driving your full attention increases the risks to you, your passengers, nearby pedestrians and the occupants of other vehicles. Whether you are driving in a shopping center's parking lot or on a major thoroughfare in a city, the risks increase if there are no signs or pavement markings.

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    Precedent Analysis The practice in design research includes academics and practitioners elaborating on the topic between peoples and places. This section forms a progressive theoretical research and precedent works that influenced by ideas development and evaluation as a reflective process. Spatial and Event-Based Design The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces is a documentary film directed by William H. Whyte, it reveals a documentary study of public life that happened in-between plazas and buildings

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    Defensive Driving

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    There is an urgent need for defensive driving that requires a skill set highly experienced drivers possess; yet, discover they were not able to avert an accident. The majority of society drives as if they’re driving on the bumper car track, costing an estimate of $152.0 billion; nonetheless when two vehicles collide they will not ricochet off one another (NSC, 2015, p 1). Each time you decide to operate a motor vehicle, you’ll encounter the reckless driver. This person runs stop signs or red lights

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    People’s Pike is working to convince Massachusetts Department of Transportation that West Station and Bike Lanes should be the number one priority for the project. This is down through using a campaign strategy, where they are looking to show Mass DOT that their vision of the project is a priority and would be mutually beneficial to both parties (Warren, 1965). This is achieved through the implementation of mass mobilization, social action and public education (Checkoway, 1995). They have used social

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    even kill pedestrians because of being distracted by their phones and not paying attention to the road. In the course of five years, the national number of pedestrians who were killed or hit by distracted drivers increased from 344 to 500 people. If you think about it, many of those people who died could have been young children or elderly people who didn’t have a fault, but because of someone being so inconsiderate using their phone, they killed these people. In 2015, 5,376 pedestrians were killed

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    Threats to the conformity of a society often leads to the targeting of an individual as a scapegoat figure as demonstrated in The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury. Societies often function on foundations such as authority or tradition. When the principles of a community are endangered, it is often deemed necessary to eliminate the threat for the welfare of the community. The urge to preserve ways of life or fulfil a purpose often transcends coherence. The devotion of

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    enough to increase safety for the future of cars. In the past not every car had the top of the line safety as they do today. In the early to the increase in car accidents, these accidents were cause by reckless driving, speeding, collisions and pedestrian fatalities were a very big problem. Car manufacturers have been facing an ongoing battle with car safety. Laws and regulations were being put in place in the early 1800’s one of the first regulations was the speed limit. After putting in regulations

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