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On April 1st, 2014 in Washington D.C., General Motors (GM) Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra testified in front of a panel of senators regarding the company’s late delay in addressing a defect in ignition switches, causing cars to lose power and injuring or killing the drivers. While GM has issued a recall on cars that are known to have this defective product, the problem lies in the delay of action on the part of GM, who are accused of knowing about the defect as early as 2001. One of the many

As teenagers are leaving their homes, cities, and in many cases, states, to attend colleges, driving has become an integral part in a teen’s life. However, many states are putting heavy restrictions on teen drivers to keep not only them safe, but the rest of the community as well. But that has not been enough- teen drivers still are a major problem on the road due partly to their lack of mental development. This has pushed some states to consider raising minimum driving age, eliminating the whole

able to sense its full environment and navigation without human interference to drive safely to its destination. As you read news about an old man, named Joshua Brown who died behind the wheel of a Tesla’s autonomous car in Autopilot mode on the highway in Florida. He watched Harry Potter video while he was using autopilot mode; suddenly, a truck was coming nearby, but the autonomous braking system didn’t apply simultaneously because the data recognized it was a sky. This accident influenced a lot

of tests is made eccentric than the symmetry axis. These tests can be made with special barrier or a car. If the test is made with other car, this test is named car to car frontal offset test. This test is generally made by Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS), EuroNCAP and Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP). An example of frontal offset impact test can be seen from Figure 1.2 and 1.3. Figure 1.2 Frontal offset (overlap) crash test

PSA Essay Ambulance The existence of the organization National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established by the Highway Safety Act of 1970. The founder the organization is the U.S. Department of Transportation. From public service announcements to prevent texting and driving, the (NHTSA) is a credible source and organization since it is at a national scale. Specifically, their Public Service Announcement (PSA) titled “Ambulance” (See Figure 1) from (NHTSA) is quite effective

Leonides Sandoval Speech 100 Self Driving Cars Are Good Hi I am Leo and today I will be talking to you about how self driving cars are good. Attention-getter: How can you get the audience’s attention?: Did you know 1.3 million people die from car crashes every year, thats over 3,000 people every day, so in one year of fatalities is the equivilant of: La Habra, Fullerton, Brea, Anaheim, Buena Parks, and surrounding cities populations just dissaperaing. Thesis: What is the central idea of your speech

Minimum Driving Age “...since the first graduated driver programs were instituted, there have been 1,348 fewer deadly crashes involving 16-year-old drivers. But at the same time, there have been 1,086 more fatal crashes that involved 18-year-olds…” (O’Connor 2). There has been much controversy regarding the minimum driving age for teens. With the raising or lowering of the minimum driving age, comes many “pros” and “cons.” Moreover, the minimum driving age should not be raised as it brings more

Reducing the Effects of Collisions Evaluate the effectiveness of safety features that have been introduced to vehicles in order to reduce the likelihood and/or effects of collisions. In a car crash, due to Newton’s first law, when the car stops suddenly, the body in the car continues moving forward at the same velocity of the car was moving previously but the body does not continue moving at the same velocity as it will hit an object inside the car, such as the steering wheel or dashboard. This force

Resilience and Community in Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters: Combating Racial Stereotypes in Indigenous Narratives. Tomson Highway’s play The Rez Sisters takes place in the fictional indigenous reservation of Wasaychigan Hill on Manitoulin Island, Ontario. The overarching issue of racial stereotyping is abundant throughout the play, as it plays an important role in setting the stage and atmosphere of the story. It also is where our characters find themselves at the start of the play, as they are

Kiss of the Fur Queen by Tomson Highway portrays the individualized experiences of a dog sledder named Abraham Okimasis. Throughout the course of this passage Okimasis is running a race that he is determined to win for the sake of his marriage. Once the end of the race draws near however, we see him become desperate and hopeless when he realizes that he is not going to win. These emotion and ultimately the experience in general are heavily expressed through specific literary devices: diction, metaphor