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Small Cars Off The Roads
1,027 wordsThe final solution It seems as though Present day Americans have "Super sized" their way of life from what it was in the past. People are buying larger houses, shopping at huge department stores, and buying goods in bulk. It also seems like people are living an accelerated lifestyle with a schedule primarily composed of business. New technology in communications and transportation has provided us with the necessary machines that get us through the day. Every morning, millions of Americans rely o...
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2001 Road Rage These Days
665 wordsLance Baker Engl. 1 Ms. Humphries March 4, 2001 Road Rage These days, cars are necessary for everyday living. They take us where we need to go. They are the method of transportation for everyday traveling. Road rage is an increasing problem in America. Incidents of violent driving have been rising for many years now. Many people identify themselves by the car they drive, because of this; road rage is only increased. Potential problems should try to be avoided. Some would say that speed limits ar...
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Place A Coin On The Index Card
465 wordsNewton's First Law of Motion Sir Isaac Newton was in my mind one of the greatest people who ever lived. He was born in 1642 and died in 1727. He formulated three laws of motion that help explain some very important principles of physics. Some of Newton's laws could only be proved under certain conditions; actual observations and experiments made sure that they are true. Newton's laws tell us how objects move by describing the relationship between force and motion. I am going to try to explain hi...
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Solutions For Air Pollution Caused By Traffic Jams
1,281 wordsSolutions For Air Pollution Caused By Traffic Jams Atmospheric pollution is called one of the greatest environmental dangers of today's industrialized world and traffic jams are a major air pollutant factor caused by a tremendous amount of gasoline engines (Dolan 4). From dawn until dusk, the sound of gentle people is lost beneath the roar of car engines, tires screeching, and horns blaring under the gray sky of Bangkok (Bruning 61). Bangkok's reputation is known as being the world's most traffi...
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Public Transport In Edinburgh
1,506 wordsPUBLIC vs. PRIVATE - THE PROBLEM OF CITY TRAFFIC. As disposable income has increased over the decades, and the cost, in real terms, of the mass produced vehicle has come down, the numbers of private cars on our roads has increased, whilst the public transport system has become under used, and under funded. Urbanisation in the latter part of the 20th century has caused the concentration of these vehicles within our cities. This project will use Edinburgh as an example of a growing, modern city, w...
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Car Drifting
335 wordsPE Research Paper For my research paper I chose to research the Japanese sport of drifting. Drifting is basically getting your car sideways around a corner and holding it sideways until the roads straightens out. The sport of drifting dates back to the late 70's when the world of import tuning started. When people would race they figured out that when going around a turn and popping the clutch it would get your tires spinning so fast that they would loose traction and your car would start to dri...
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Indian Road Users
648 wordsDriving in India Traveling in India is an almost hallucinatory mixture of sound and sight. It is frequently heart-rending, sometimes hilarious, mostly exhilarating, always unforgettable - and, when you are on the roads, extremely dangerous. Most Indian road users observe a version of the Highway Code based on some ancient text or on the position of the moon. In general the 12 rules of the Indian road code are: ARTICLE I The assumption of immortality is required of all road users. ARTICLE II The ...
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Vacation
268 wordsIt was a different kind of road trip. Somehow I knew not to ask, "Are we there yet?" I don't think any of us knew where we would eventually end up that evening. My parents were doing their best to act like this was some type of family vacation. But mom was quiet (she never is), and the car was packed with odd items one would never take on a vacation. Most of what had been packed in the car were diapers and baby formula. My little sister had just been born weeks before this obscure "vacation". Th...
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Corolla Contrasts With The Other Car
2,327 wordsMedia Studies - Study Of 4 Advertisements For Cars, And Their Similarities And Differences I will begin by identifying and describing the signifiers, and then I will say what they signify, and lastly, say why this advert works, who it is aimed at and identify the techniques behind this advert. There are several main signifiers in this advert. The most obvious one is the car. It is a sleek car, and it is red. The next large signifier is the blurred background, i.e. the sky, trees and the road. Af...
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Shore Road Mystery The Hardy Boys
1,177 wordsThe Shore Road Mystery The Hardy boys, Frank and Joe, were taking a casual drive down Shore Road when they heard a report about a stolen car. Frank and Joe raced towards the scene and actually saw the stolen car. Suddenly, a big red produce truck came right into the middle of the road. The boys had no choice but to slam on their breaks. They ended up crashing into a fence and were dazed but uninjured. The driver came out of the truck and apologized. "Something seems fishy about that guy". Said F...
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Small Country Town
439 wordsLiving on Oak Road When I think of the sounds, sights, and smells of my house on Oak Road I get homesick. It makes me want to go back to the familiar area. My family and I moved here when I was just one year old. It was a small country town with only one store on the corner with clean air and very few cars on the road. We never had any worries as we walked to the corner store. The town always seemed very quiet and undisturbed. As times have changed and I am now eighteen years old, the small coun...
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Your Car
314 wordsROAD RAGE Night falls. You get in your car to drive to the mall with a few friends. The world around you swirls in a mixture of shadows and rows of street lamps that line the side of the highway. That day's test and the fight with your best friend are all running through your head. But at least the traffic is moving well. You glance to the side before pulling out in front of a car. All is clear and you switch into the next lane. As you pass the other car, another car comes up from your right and...
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Smart Car Technology Answer A
1,174 wordsSmart Car Technology Answer A: The TravTek navigation system is installed in 100 Oldsmobile Tornados, the visual part of the system is a computer monitor. Through detailed colour maps, it leads the driver through the town. The map changes all the time, cause a computer connected to a navigation-satellite, and with a magnetic compass installed, calculates the fastest or easiest way to your destination. When yellow circles appear in a particular place on the screen, it means that there is traffic ...
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Back Into My Car
1,852 wordsMidget Village One Saturday night, I left the house to go to a friend's house, and the last words that came out of my parent's mouth was to be careful. That statement went in one ear and out the other. People never think that anything would ever happen to them because they take their safety for granted. I told them that I am always careful and I'll be home soon, so I left. I started up my car and fished around in my back seat for my CD case so I wouldn't be bored for the twenty-minute ride to my...
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Car At An Average Speed
317 wordsINTRODUCTION -Aim: My aim is to thoroughly investigate how the total cost of running a fleet car could be kept to a minimum. Having completed this investigation I will then make a recommendation to Lee on how this could be achieved. Lee is the fleet manager of Three C's trading Company, whom maintains a fleet of cars for its executives. Part of her job is to allocate the cars as efficiently as possible so the cost to the company is at a minimum. The hourly cost of running a car, , is modelled by...
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Most Radical Concept Car Of The 1950's
1,297 wordsAnother element that was present in the 1950's was automobiles. Automobiles were something that everyone once dreamed of owning. Now after the war. they could finally own one. Automobiles of the 1940's were dull and very plain. This was because designers were too busy designing tanks, planes, etc... for the ongoing war. The major event that took place that changed the way cars looked and how they performed happened on October 14, 1947. This was when Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. From thi...
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Decline In Public Transport The
1,354 wordsTransport Planning Notes Why is there any need for transport planning? The simplistic answers: "Everyone has or wants a car, so new roads must be built" "If only public transport were better, I would use it" "If freight were made to use rail, motorway congestion could be solved" But, simplistic answers are: not environmentally feasible, and / or cost too much, and / or not politically feasible, and / or unpredictable in their consequences If the simplistic answers are wrong, what are the right q...
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Road Improvements Speed
720 wordsThe automobile was invented back in 1885. Now in the 21st century, cars are becoming faster, stronger, more heavy-duty and further technologically advanced every year. Current models are safer than any other in history, with the introduction of many safety components as well as the improvements of numerous pre-existing technologies. In the past decade or two, worldwide it has become more of a fuel-economic society with the prices of oil at an all-time high. As soon as automobiles were invented m...
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Building Car Parking Space
1,124 wordsSince Chinese car market has been opened in 1970!'s, owning a private car had become a dream of most of Chinese families. Nowadays, with the development of economy, this dream can be easily realized, as most Chinese families has had their own cars. However, the massive growth in private car ownership over the last two decades has led to many problems such to the society such as traffic congestions. This topic will explore the various options that are available to address the problems of congesti...
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Lot Less Road Rage
754 wordsRoad Rage is a growing problem all over the country and no one is immune from it. It is an incident when one driver does something that sets off another one and makes them angry. It doesn't take much. Anyone who spends any time on the road has and will continue to experience a form of Road Rage. But it is not the type that ends up with someone shot or in the hospital. Usually, it is simply someone else's behavior causing us to say something under our breath or even yell it out, and that is the e...
