Essays on Drivers

Road rage is a situation in which there is a form of violence on the roads. As the words suggest, it is clear to understand the meaning of the two words. Independently, they bring up no meaning close to the one that they have when combined. In a nutshell, one cannot term as a road rage, any rage incident that happens away from the roads.
As it happens on the roads, the incidents in most cases involve drivers. It is, for example an offense to drive above the speed limit in many countries such as America and Saudi Arabia.

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Introduction

In the process of presenting a suggestion or idea to the person who has the power to implement it, the procedure of presentation influences the decision maker’s acceptance or rejection of the idea. When proper channels and protocol are followed, which comprehensively cover all the desired areas or people, it will be very easy to push through the idea. An idea can be rejected, not because it does not provide a solution to the problem, but because it was presented to the decision makers in a wrong way.
The issue of concern in this case study regards mothers

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New Hampshire Senate

Statehouse, Room 302
107 North Main Street

Concord, New Hampshire

Massachusetts 03301-4951
Dear Senator,
As your voting constituent, I am writing to you regarding the House Bill 4975 signed by Governor Deval Patrick on July 2, 2010 that prohibits text messaging and using a cellular phone while operating a motor vehicle. New Hampshire already has a law that ban texting while driving. This bill would extend that ban to cover talking on a handheld cell phone or to use handheld devices for some activities. These activities are using the internet or putting information in a navigation system. It would not prohibit the

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Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Educational Institution
CAR TRACKING DEVICES AND THE EFFECT ON car insurance PREMIUMS
Introduction
Insurance is an agreement where the insurer (company) agrees to pay to the policyholder (individual or company) a certain amount to compensate for loss in the event of the occurrence of an uncertain event (Feldman and Brown, 2005). Insurance coverage transfers the risk of loss from an event occurring in exchange for the payment of a fixed amount of money called the insurance premium. Risk recognition is a factor in determining the amount of premiums that would be paid by the policyholder. Premium computation takes into

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Speed Limits

There have been so many road accidents in the US caused by things like drunken driving, over speeding and texting while driving. Surprisingly, several states have increased their speed limit even after they have witnessed so many deaths caused by road accidents. IIinois is the latest state to come up with a bill that proposes an increment in the speed limit to about 70 mph on certain parts of its roads. However, this move has raised concern because those states that have raised their speed limits have experienced an increase in injuries and deaths on their roads. According to

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It is vital for the companies to increase their financial belongings holdings in order to compete with other peer companies. The main perspective of this assignment relates to a case study of a company with the name of “Kids R People 2 Transportation Limited”.

Kid’s R People 2 Transportation LTD (KRP2) was mainly operated from two divisions in the Greater Montreal, Quebec area. Some of the key success factors relating to the company are mentioned below:
- According to the case, the network of the company is large and effective, there are around 400 schools’ vehicles on the

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Distracted driving is the act of driving while engaging in other activities such as talking on the phone, talking to a passenger, texting, reading novels or magazines, eating, looking after children, or engaging in any other form of activity other than driving. This activity takes the drivers attention away from the road and as such compromises the safety of the driver, other vehicles, passengers as well as bystanders. The United States Department of Transportation released statistics showing that more than 37% of drivers engage in other activities while driving and most of them admit doing it very regularly. Additionally,

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System safety is sometimes referred to as effort of the management or concept which involves auditing and analysis of risks that a management might face while carrying out its activities. This involves identifying and recommending of possible measures that the management will take to prevent such risks and hazards and possible measures on already happened risk. It involves using of management and engineering tools in controlling such risks (Stephans and Joe 16).
Safety measure involves a procedure that should be put into task force for coming up with countermeasures and ways of following-up to ensure the results are effective.

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Contemporary generation has acknowledged cell phone use as crucial to everyday life. The statistics provided by the Pew Internet revealed that as much as 91% of American adults own a cell phone . Despite the obvious advantages and benefits of cellphone use, one of the dangers that has been directly accounted to it is being used while driving. With the continued increase in the number of casualties attributed to cell phone use while driving, one hereby asserts that cell phone use by all private and commercial drivers should ultimately be banned.
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), “

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The direct distribution methodology is all about allocating costs to the cost centers. The allocation of indirect costs is the responsibility of the executive management and of the financial staff. At the same time the department directors are required to monitor and control costs.
This method allocates indirect costs generated by non-revenue cost centers to the revenue cost centers. In the context of Table 4 – 1, the rehabilitation non-personal costs of $10, 272, is the non-revenue costs allocated to this particular cost center. The non-revenue cost center or cost pools that contribute costs to the revenue center are called “

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Diabetes is defined as “a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly” (“What is Diabetes?”, 2013). There are two different kinds of diabetes: Type I (where no insulin exists for the cells to use as fuel) and Type II (where not enough insulin is created, or it is misused) (“What is Diabetes?”, 2013). According to statistics, diabetes is rampant in the UK: 2.9 million people are diagnosed with diabetes (“State of the Nation 2012 – England”, 2013). Diabetes occurs when the pancreas does not provide insulin to allow

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Texting while driving is a form of distracted driving. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), driving while texting is six times more dangerous than drunk driving. Studies also show that texting while driving makes a driver 23 times more likely to meet an accident. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety claims that texting while driving kills 11 teens each day. These are just some of the alarming statistics related to texting while driving.
There are a lot of reasons why texting while driving should not be legalized. Texting while driving exhibits the three main types of

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Efficiency in customer service delivery is a cardinal requirement to attain customer loyalty and satisfaction. Indeed, this should be the overriding objective of any business or organization that seeks to take compete relatively well within the market which it operates. The key to attaining the requisite levels of efficiency is ensuring that an organization is properly structured and managed. Additionally, the organization should ensure that it significantly reduces unnecessary bureaucracy and red tap since such things hinder efficient service delivery. All programs adopted and implemented by an organization must aim at promoting productivity, accessibility and efficiency not only for

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Mohammed AL Yousif

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6CC515, Monday 11th Nov 2013 @ Prof Nik Bessis
Abstract
Computing companies have been using a lot of money in computing automobiles and connectivity; My paper looks into the developments and how the use of touch screens and mobile applications in controlling vehicles will be interesting for the companies and those that will utilize the development and see it actually materialize; The smart automobiles also called smart cars are semi autonomous intelligent driven cars which are incorporated with systems that enable driving through artificial intelligence. The idea of smart

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Red light cameras have a few detriments that debar it from being the substitute of reducing any threat in the transport system precisely at the road intersections where there are traffic light control systems. The system is such complicated and has a lot of slips and could lead to exposure of impending danger to the drivers. The policy of banning the use of red light cameras is recommendable and would reduce chances of causing more collision. It also expose the driver to fear of breaking the law hence he or she loses the concentration. Lose of concentration leads to

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F1 race in Beijing, China is one of the popular businesses. It is gaining its popularity day by day. Business houses involved in this kind of deals, earn revenue of over $1 billion. Starting from car manufactures to the drivers, many people are part of this business. This business may look lucrative and entertaining; however there are certain kinds of risk in it. Henceforth, the strategic management of F1 racing should be planned accordingly.

What do you mean by Strategy?

Strategy means something which is planned or designed in order to achieve a long term goal. It is changed and improved depending on a company’

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In about twenty years from now, studies show that the number of elderly drivers (those who are 70 years of age or older) will triple in the United States. This means that the number of mature drivers will increase (Nakagawa, Park, and Kumagai, 397). There are a lot of people who argue that the elderly should not be behind the wheel. It is not so much their age that affects their driving, but the declining capabilities which render them less capable of being safe drivers on the road. Many senior citizen drivers say that they need to modify their

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Why banning the use of cell phones while driving should be mandatory nationwide

It goes without saying that cell phones have become an integral part of our lives and contributed so much in improving the lives Americans through communication. It has made people more accessible and increased the speed of business. However, there seems to be a worrying trend where by more and more accidents are being caused as a result of people using their cell phones while driving.
The national Transit Safety board in 20011 had called for a complete ban on the use of cell phones while driving. This was later opposed by the US secretary of transport saying that

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Discipline and Behavior Modification

Discipline and Behavior Modification
1. The most important idea that I learned in Part Nine was the role of discipline and behavior modification theories in the manager-report business relationship. The given example concerning the performance improvement within the transportation industry was interesting for its complete lack of negative aspects. The results that the company obtained by emphasizing the positive and ignoring the negative were notable. In some ways this section was slightly contradictory, as the only discussion of what would happen if the drivers that did not meet the goals were receipt of encouragement to keep trying to meet

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Introduction

The US department of defense has published various regulations governing the conduct and action military personnel and civilians within the US itself and other installation outside the US. One of the installation under which stringent rules have been established is the US Army in Europe, (AER). Among the regulations made are the traffic rules. The Driver and Vehicle Requirements and the Installation Traffic Code for the U.S. Forces in Germany, establishes an installation traffic code governing the registration requirements and operation of motor vehicles in Europe. It supersedes the earlier AER regulation given in the year 2009. This regulation

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“Each day, more than nine people are killed and 1,060 more are injured in crashes that involve a distracted driver” (cdc.gov). However, driving and talking on the cell phone tends to be habitual among drivers, who, for various reasons, chose to do more than just driving, when in front of their car’s steering wheel. Although many might claim that it is easy and safe to both drive and talk on the cell phone, especially when using hands-free devices that allow the driver’s hands to be on the steering wheel, driving and talking on the cell phone

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Assembly Bill 60

The Assembly Bill 60, which has since been enacted as the Safe and Responsible Driver Act, enables the issuance of driver’s license to undocumented immigrants who prove that they are residents of the State of California. The law would enable the registration of approximately two million undocumented immigrants who are reported as having been driving illegally.
The law is informed by a number of reasons. One advocate for this law, Luis Alejo, argues that the law would enable issuance of driving licenses to undocumented immigrants who would consequently be able to get insured. It is argued thus that

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Car Accidents in United Arab Emirates

Car accidents in the UAE have escalated in the recent years. UAE being a young nation has undergone a speedy growth in road construction, vehicle count and the emergence of high-risk road use behavior. With this number of factors, road carnage is set to increase heavily and is presently the second cause of death in the nation. An explosion of immigrants in the nation and the change in life of the citizen after the discovery of the oil in the last century also contribute to the escalated road carnage. Judging by the number of the fatalities reported by the

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Question 1

Do women live longer than men?
The dependent variable is death. The life span of individuals depends on several factors. As years go by the age of an individual goes up and death comes nearer. The independent variable is gender.

The gender of an individual is fixed and does not change with age.

The kind of data needed to answer this question is ratio comparing the age at which most men die to that at which most women die. This kind of information can be obtained by visiting hospitals and inquiring the records of patients who die in a year (National Institutes of Health 2000). It can also be obtained by interviewing

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In 2011, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimated that 1.3 million traffic accidents in the US, which is approximately 23 percent of all accidents, occur while drivers are using cell phones (Lane, 2011). Around 1.2 million crashes occur because drivers use phones for conversations while the other 100,000 occur because a driver is typing text messages (Lane, 2011).
A survey was conducted on 912 smartphone users by State Farm, and 19 percent of them reported using their cell phone for surfing the internet (Sarno, 2011). Although their online survey did not report the demographics of the participants,

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The selected automotive technological system is the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. This system will use networks for the vehicles and infrastructure that is supported by traffic lights and tool gates through vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) links (British Columbia, 2012). Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) is a standard wireless, which ensures high-speed data connections for up to distances of 200m and emergency and safety communications at low speeds of for distances up to one kilometer between one car and another, as well as roadside transmitters between vehicles.
DSRC is used to provide warning to nearby cars in cases of airbag deployment and sudden

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Is it safe to text and drive?

Texting while driving comprises of typing a text message or an email, reading a text or an email while driving or operating a vehicle. It is considered to be a very destructive practice that has led to increased numbers of accidents especially teenagers. It is therefore not safe to text while driving (Howlett, p6). According to the American Automobile Association, texting while driving increases the chances of causing an accident and crushing by twenty three times, this is because while texting one diverts the attention of both the eyes and the mind from the road to the phone for

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It is often common to hear in the news regarding incidents of motorcycle and vehicular accidents due to drunk driving. Some of the suspected motorists would often deny such allegations even if the police would already notice signs of being under the influence of alcohol, blaming the other party for the accident. In some cases, the motorists would even deny being under the influence of alcohol, while a few would visibly display the signs of being sober and smell drunk. No one is exempted to this trend when it comes to drivers drunk driving, may one would be a

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Introduction

A person’s alcohol concentration in the body can easily be known. This is achieved by the determination of the blood alcohol concentration taken in by such a person. This involves the measurement of alcohol concentration in grams of alcohol per 100 millimeters of blood. When the women and men are exposed to the same quantities of alcohol at the same time then the concentration of the alcohol in women will be higher. However, even people of the same sex have different concentration of alcohol when tasted despite their drinking levels. A drug therefore is any substance that alters

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Speech

Technological gadgets, like cell phones, are considered contemporary men’s best friends or worst foes. There have been alarming reports and statistics that revealed that the use of cell phones while driving have significantly contributed to an increasing trend of road accidents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has disclosed that “each day in the United States, more than 9 people are killed and more than 1,060 people are injured in crashes that are reported to involve a distracted driver” (Distracted Driving , 2013, par. 1). The alarming fact is that despite repeated warnings by regulatory agencies, drivers

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General Purpose: The general purpose of the speech is to argue that banning the use of cellphones while driving should be mandatory nationwide due to reasons that significantly affect the lives of the drivers and those who they haplessly come into contact with.
Specific Purpose: The specific purpose of the speech is to present in greater detail the enumerated reasons which rationalize banning the use of cellphones while driving as proposed to be made mandatory nationwide.
Central idea: The central idea of the speech, therefore, is to enhance the audiences’ awareness on the dangers of using cellphones while driving.

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Introduction

United States federal government, Wisconsin’s local government, Department of Transportation, and all the safety partners need to move with speed to curb drunken driving menace in Wisconsin state. This problem can be achieved only if there is collaborative partnership between the government departments, private institutions and the local citizens. This research paper seeks to answer the question on; what should be done to reduce incidences of drunken driving in Wisconsin? I propose that there should be a collaborative effort between the government, private institutions, and citizens in coming with the proper programs to solve the problem. This is

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An Argumentative Essay

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An Argumentative Essay

Introduction

Many accidents that happened in the road today are due to over-speeding, reckless driving, and lose control of mechanical devices. Year by year, reports on road accidents grow in number, and they become more intense as many young drivers do not pay attention to the danger of the road. They do not have the attitudes to respect other drivers and to obey the policies and regulations implemented by the government. This problem would contribute to the dilemmas of the superhighway and the people involved in the accidents. As such, this article examines

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The proliferation of mobile phone devices amongst most Americans has been a positive step in the communication frontier but a challenge to the transport sector. The use of mobile phones, chiefly texting, while driving has had dangerous consequences on the roads by distracting drivers. Texting while driving is linked to destructive driving that accounts for numerous road accidents. The statistics indicate that the problem posed by distracted driving courtesy of mobile phone use is increasingly getting to intolerable levels.
In the year 2010, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that 18 percent of all fatal crashes that occurred in

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Introduction

Motor vehicle accidents, this is the situation that occurs when two or more cars collide, when a pedestrian, tree or animal is hit. In these accidents, the results could be injuries, damages in the cars, trauma, lawsuits or death. There are different causes of accidents such as drivers using cell phones, drunk driving, the state of the roads, the drivers’ state of sanity, and the design of the roads. The research should show whether the accidents level has decreased since the ban of usage of phones while driving. The state of California banned the usage of cell phones in

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Driving is one very enjoyable thing to do but yet again very complicated by all standards and by people getting hooked to it proves this fact. It is an opportunity when well used enables a person reach his or her destination safely without any hitches only if well done. This has made more and more people get interested in this art and therefore want to drive their own vehicles. Through this clear understanding, there are different types of drivers who can be classified by the way in which they conduct themselves on the roads as they drive.
There is

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Abstract

This research is seeking to establish good voice interaction systems to help curb road incarnage resulting from driving distracters. To achieve this, various methods o data collection and analysis are going to be explored. Among the key methods in this research will be going through written journals, electronic sources that include the websites and website articles as well as field resources such as interviews. Existing research on voice iteractive systems will also add value to this research. However, much cannot be achieved without paying key attention to the sources and nature of driving distracters. Findings of this research paper

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In recent news, reports of motorcycle or car accidents have been attributed to the driver’s use of their phones for texting. Investigators have constantly stressed in their reports that many drivers nowadays are distracted from their driving because they often have their phone on their other hand, cutting their concentration in half. The driver would have to double check if he had typed the correct letters before he could send the message to his recipient, affecting his peripheral vision of the road. While the authorities and government officials actively campaigned for the reduction of accidents related to texting

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The Google driverless car is a top notch technological invention developed by the famous tech company Google aimed at making a self-drive car. This is an automobile that would be able to drive itself via the use of artificially intelligent systems via use cognitive ability and sensors installed on the vehicle hardware. As of now the car has been put into operation in three states in the US, that is, Florida, Nevada, and California. Nevertheless, the Google company I still pushing for the implementation of this technology across the country while facing moral and ethical questioning before passing of

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Introduction

Traffic! A word which has effectively been in the public domain for more than few decades in the overview that seeks to highlight the various frustrating epitomes that individuals does encounter in the diverse means of transport. Relatively the United States of America is a fast world nation, which consequently depends on the diverse means of transport in the context that tries to make it efficient to help deliver the various aspects of enhancing the economic development.
The nation is served by the various wide developed road terminus which efficiently brings out the efficacies of the daily 24 hours

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