Practicing Safe Driving:
How to Prevent Accidents on America's oads

In 2006 alone, the total number of automobiles registered with the U.S. Bureau of Transit topped 135.3 million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010). With the amount drivers on the road, one must question the protection a driver gives and receives while driving. Advancements in technology and increasing time constraints are grounds for the escalating concern of distractions. These same time constraints are having commuters get a lesser amount of sleep before driving, risking driver fatigue. Finally, a quantity of people are not looking at certain areas of the road or in their mirrors. It appears that the least essential worry drivers consider during their commute is driving. When on the road, drivers must ignore outside factors and make more alert driving their only priority in order to not only protect their well-being, but other drivers' and passengers' also.

Using cell phones, media players, and…...

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Retrieved November 14, 2010 from  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/197542.php .

Cars and driving are emblems of American culture, and have defined American lifestyle and identity. American cities are built around the car, and so is the urban and suburban sprawl. It is no small coincidence, therefore, that both Flannery O'Connor and Dagoberto Gilb use a car as a central symbol in their short stories. In O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find," a road trip turns deadly when the family runs into a group of escaped convicts on their way to Florida. Florida makes a brief appearance in Gilb's short story, "Love in L.A.," too, as protagonist Jake mistakes Mariana's heritage for being Cuban since her license plates are from Florida. Like "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Love in L.A." centers around cars and driving as the central motifs, but in Gilb's story, the ending is not gruesome. Although "Love in L.A." And "A Good Man is…...

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Works Cited

Gilb, Dagoberto. "Love in L.A."

O'Connor, Flannery. "A Good Man is Hard to Find." Retrieved online: http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~surette/goodman.html

Essay Topic Examples 1. The Ethical Implications of Driverless Cars
In this essay, the writer would explore the moral and ethical considerations that come with autonomous vehicles. Topics might include the decision-making algorithms in life-or-death situations, privacy concerns regarding the collection and use of passenger data, and the impact on employment for professional drivers. The discussion would delve into how society, manufacturers, and policymakers could address these ethical challenges.

2. The Impact of Driverless Cars on Urban lanning and Infrastructure
This topic invites examination of how the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles could transform city landscapes, impact public transportation systems, and require changes in road infrastructure. The essay could consider potential shifts in traffic patterns, the need for new types of parking solutions, and how cities might adapt to ensure efficiency and safety in a driverless car-dominated era.

3. The rospects and Challenges of Integrating Driverless Cars into Society
Here, the writer would assess the feasibility…...

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Primary Sources

\"Waymo LLC. Waymo Safety Report. October 2020.\" Waymo, Accessed 10 Apr. 2023.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). \"Automated Vehicles for Safety.\" NHTSA, Sep. 2020,  https://www.nhtsa.gov/technology-innovation/automated-vehicles-safety . Accessed 10 Apr. 2023.

Koopman, Philip, and Michael Wagner. \"Autonomous Vehicle Safety: An Interdisciplinary Challenge.\" IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, vol. 9, no. 1, 2017, pp. 90-96. DOI: 10.1109/MITS.2016.2620684.

Anderson, James M., et al. \"Autonomous Vehicle Technology: A Guide for Policymakers.\" RAND Corporation, 2016, https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR443-2.html. Accessed 10 Apr. 2023.

Bansal, Prateek, and Kara M. Kockelman. \"Forecasting Americans’ Long-term Adoption of Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies.\" Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, vol. 95, 2017, pp. 49-63. DOI: 10.1016/j.tra.2016.10.013.

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In addition, a growing number of countries in the region have also started strict traffic sign and signal enforcement campaigns (Martin, 2005). In addition, launched in 2009, a governmental campaign to reduce traffic accidents in the Sultanate of Oman has sought to raise awareness among Omanis concerning the need to use safety belts in general and the need to use safety seats for young children every time people take to the road. In addition, the oyal Oman Police, the Ministry of Social Development and the Ministry of Education have collaborated with the Omani Society Safety on the traffic safety initiatives as discussed further below.
Civil Society. According to ajhi (2011), there are a number of civic organizations that play an important role in promoting traffic safety and raising public awareness about the need to reduce traffic accidents. These organizations include the Omani Society for oad Safety which is dedicated to…...

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Martin, J. (2005, March). Arab traffic jam: Road traffic accidents are costing Arab states billions of dollars annually, not to mention the catastrophic loss of life. The Middle East, 354, 37-

39.

Miedema, H.M. & Oudshoorn, C.G. (2001, April). Annoyance from transportation noise:

Relationships with exposure metrics DNL and DENL and their confidence intervals.

New Car Rental Property Proposal
Despite the proliferation of ride-sharing services such as Lyft and Uber, the rental car industry continues to thrive, with average fleet sizes and revenues experiencing significant increases since 2015 (2016 U.S. car rental market, 2017). One market location that is well positioned for a new non-franchise car rental enterprise is Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (OKC) which hosts a world-class international airport, the Will Rogers World Airport, located just 6 miles from the city's downtown. This paper provides an overview of the U.S. car rental market and a description of the basic business model that will be used by the new car rental enterprise which will be known as Stardust Car Rentals. In addition, a description of four performance measures, data collection methods and how the data will be used is followed by an outline and analysis of two cost-benefit decisions that will have to be considered. A…...

Various smart vehicle and smart highway technologies and systems offer tremendous potential for improving road and vehicular safety. Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) have already been developed in the United States and Japan, also called Road Transport Informatics (RTI) in Europe (Collier and Weiland, 1994, p. 27). Smart highways are also referred to as Automated Vehicle Highway Systems (AVHS) or Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The lack of global consensus on what to call smart driving and smart highways reflects the burgeoning nature and broad gamut of technologies that need to be further developed and integrated into standardized systems. The most important of the IVHS systems involve both vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) technologies. Both V2V and V2I technologies capitalize on software and hardware systems that have already been integrated into many newer automobiles, such as GPS and WiFi. Some systems also require Dedicated Short Range Communication…...

Air Bags in Cars
The Politics of Air Bags

Air bags weren't always in cars. They have come about as a fairly recent development, and the rise of the air bag was due to politics. hile this may sound strange, many things that individuals take for granted today have come about because special interest groups were concerned about a specific aspect of public policy or public safety. These individuals or groups then worked to change laws or to have laws enacted that made the world, in their opinion, a better place.

The purpose of this paper is to examine air bags from a political standpoint. In other words, the goal of this paper is not to make a judgment as to whether air bags in cars are good or bad, but rather to look at the political changes that caused them to come about in the first place.

In order to do this,…...

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Carter, Craig C. "Politics & Policy: Air Bags Puff On. Carmakers are installing them as federal rules requiring passive restraints look certain." Fortune 9 December 1985: 135.

Healey, James R & Jayne O'Donnell. "Air bag fatalities shock backers into soul-searching." USA Today 8 July 1996: 02B.

Lambrecht, Bill. "Who is He? Ashcroft gets hard questions, some jokes about obscurity on New Hampshire swing." St. Louis Post-Dispatch 12 August 1997: 01A.

Leavitt, Paul. "Air bags save lives." USA Today 5 November 1996: 14A.

Angelo Epifani drove his car into my daughter, killing her instantly. The driver left the scene of the accident, likely fearing the repercussions and unable to face the consequences. My daughter was left lying on the street in the middle of the night, alone, to die. Her name was Jiao Shiqi. She was only 20 years old when she died, a delightful, kind, intelligent, and sweet girl.
Jiao Shiqi had her whole life ahead of her. She had immigrated to Canada not long before her untimely death. The courage it must have taken Jiao Shiqi to move to a foreign country alone was remarkable, but she handled it so well that she made friends nearly the minute she disembarked from the plane: flight AC031 direct from Beijing to Toronto Pearson.

Her marks at Columbia International College were so good, that Jiao Shiqi was planning on completing her college degree at the University…...

On the hand, some plans may be slow to respond to the pilot's commands; complicating the piloting process, much like a sports car, for example, that under steers or a truck that over steers (Personal Communication, 2010). Bay contends that training on more than one plane of a particular model would prove to be a positive practice for airlines to implement.
Bay asserts that the following questions need to be answered regarding the cause of the crash of Flight 3407.

How much training and experience did the pilot/s have with this particular aircraft?

How many hours experience did the pilot/s have flying this particular craft?

Did a matter of pilot fatigue play a part in the incident?

Could alcohol have been a factor in the pilot's inability to "do the right thing"?

Were there any known defects with the plane?

Did any type mechanical malfunction occur?

On what date was the plane last inspected and/or serviced? (Personal

Communication,…...

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Alcohol and Flying. (N.d.). Federal Aviation Administration. Retrieved February 13, 2010

from www.faa.gov/pilots/safety/pilotsafetybrochures/media/alcohol.pdf

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Black, H.C.(1990). Discovery. Black's Law Dictionary West Publishing: St. Paul, MN.

Banning Smoking in Cars With Children: Moral and Legal Issues
Five states in America, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Maine and Oregon, and also Puerto ico -- have made it a crime to smoke in cars when children are there, and more states are considering the adoption of this legislation as well. For instance, other nations such as Canada, South Africa and the United Arab Emirates are also leaning towards such a ban. The ban is viewed as beneficial in the sense that it not only protects children but it also minimizes the amount of accidents which will be derived from cigarette-related distractions, such as lighting, ashing or dropping them while driving (ash.org). However, the biggest impetus for this legislation is the desire to protect all innocent children from exposure to the hazards which are inherently connected to cigarettes and cigarette smoke. One of the inherent necessities of this issue is in connection…...

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Ash.org. (n.d.). Smoking Should be Banned in Cars Whenever Children are Present. Retrieved from Ash.org:  http://ash.org/carsmoking 

Brown, A. (2014, Jan 29). Banning smoking in cars is wrong: where would it end? Retrieved from telegraph.co.uk:   cars-is-wrong-where-would-it-end/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/andrewmcfbrown/100257222/banning-smoking-in -

Healthday. (2013, July 23). Poll: U.S. Adults Support Smoking Ban in Cars With Kids. Retrieved from usnews.com: us-adults-support-smoking-ban-in-cars-with-kidshttp://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2013/07/23/poll-

Jarvie, J., & Malone, R. (2008). Children's Secondhand Smoke Exposure in Private Homes and Cars: An Ethical Analysis. American Journal of Public Health, 2140 -- 2145.

Customer oles

At least three customer roles are needed for a marketplace transaction: (Ibid)

1. Buying, choosing a particular product or service;

2. Closing sale by paying for product or service;

3. Consuming or using product or service.

Subsequently, one customer may be a buyer, a payer, or a user; or each of these roles may be filled by an organization; various individuals; or different departments. During the process of transforming a showroom visitor to a used car buyer, it is vital to note that if a seller does not cater to each of these three roles, he may loose the customer.

Insuring a used car's features are the ones the potential customer has in mind and that the vehicle will best satisfy the user's want or need has to be a primary goal of a seller.

The payer role is equally important as without a payer a sale will not transpire. In the past, the payer…...

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Ambah, Faiza Saleh. "Saudi women recall a day of driving; Women who protested in 1990 reunite as debate over women drivers returns.(WORLD)," The Christian Science Monitor, December 7, 2005.

AUTO PARTS AND SERVICE EQUIPMENT (APS)." (2006). U.S. Commercial Service. Retrieved 22 August 2006. from: https://www.buyusa.gov/saudiarabia/en/120.html.

Boorstinm, Daniel J. (1996). The Columbia World of Quotations. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press. Retrieved 23 August 2006 at  http://www.bartleby.com/66/81/7781.html .

Transport
Indicative Literature eview

Accident Theories

Theories of Transport Safety

WMATA Accidents & the Debate

Analysis and Evaluation of the Key Issues

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recorded a number of rail accidents and other incidents within the jurisdiction of the Washington DC Metro Transit Authority (WMATA) in the past six years. A centralized approach taken by the Federal Transport Agency (FTA) and the safety management department has not helped in the reduction of the incidents that are potentially hazardous and detrimental for travelers.

There have been talks about adopting new approaches and methods to deal with the issues that lead to the accidents and incidents. These measures are expected to yield results over a period of 5-10 s. The exposure to the risk of accidents and the safety performance would be reduced by the implementation of the measures (oversight.house.gov, 2015).

Since the process of management of road and rail safety is as good as the…...

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Dhillon, B. (2011). Transportation systems reliability and safety. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Friend, M. and Kohn, J. (2007). Fundamentals of occupational safety and health. Lanham, Md.: Government Institutes.

Goetsch, D. (2010). The basics of occupational safety. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall.

Jha, N. (2008). Research methodology. Chandigarh: Abhishek Publications.

Behavioral Economics
There is a lot of predictability and patterns when it comes to economics. There are many examples that one can point to. First, there is a bit of a cycle to things. Even when there are economic "booms" in the United States or other capitalistic countries, there are eventually "busts" of varying size and degree called recessions. Most of the time, the recessions are fairly brief and not a lot of damage is done. Other times, one sees recessions like the Great Depression in the 1930's and the Great Recession in the 2000's. There was also the fairly dark period that occurred during the latter part of Jimmy Carter's Presidency and into the early 1980's when Reagan took over (24/7 all Street). Of course, there are behaviors that are expected and realized when economic travails come. People tend to tighten their spending, stick to their current job if they…...

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24/7 Wall Street. "The 13 Worst Recessions, Depressions, And Panics In AmericanA History." 247wallst.com. N.p., 2015. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.

Car Scoops. "Want A Car 'Made In The U.S.A.'? Then Check The First Digit Of The VIN Code." Carscoops. N.p., 2015. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.

Crawford, Steve. "How Does Consumer Spending Change During Boom, Recession, And Recovery?: Beyond The Numbers: U.S. Bureau Of Labor Statistics." Bls.gov. N.p., 2015. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.

Fiat. "Fiat.Com - Homepage." fiat.com. N.p., 2015. Web. 21 Dec. 2015.

("Kelly Psychology of Personal Constructs," 2005)
Social Cognitive theories are a primary focus in today's clinical world. The person is seen as a proactive vs. reactive organizer of his or her life. Utilizing the main concepts of this theory explain why Jane is having such difficulty coping with life? How would Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck intervene in Jane's lifestyle?

The social cognitive theory is when there is focus on learning by watching what others do. The successes and failures that they experience are used to shape how the individual will view the world around them and their role in it. This is accomplished by teaching them techniques during the process that can be applied to their daily lives. (Santrock, 2008, pp. 26 -- 30) When this occurs on a regular basis, is the point that the person will begin to use these events as experiences that will shape how they…...

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The Beginning of Cognitivist. (2002). All Psych. Retrieved from:

 http://allpsych.com/personalitysynopsis/kelly.html 

Kelly Psychology of Personal Constructs. (2005). Find Psychology. Retrieved from:

 http://fiupsychology.com/feist15.htm

Commonplace: "You Always Admire hat You Really Don't Understand"
There are a great many things that arouse admiration in this world of ours. Some of these things such as a creation of nature, a work of breathtaking art, scientific breakthroughs that benefit human kind, and acts of bravery are, without doubt, worthy of the admiration and the sentiment that they inspire. Unfortunately, however, human beings also fruitlessly admire a great many more things that are illusory in nature and, therefore, not really worthy of respect. Take, for instance, the human desire to be good looking, rich, successful and powerful. These qualities seem desirable purely because people who possess these attributes appear to be better off in life. But, are they really? Or, do these qualities give rise to admiration only because we don't really understand what being beautiful, wealthy, successful or powerful entails?

Perhaps, it is precisely the recognition that we admire…...

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Cool Nurse. "Marijuana." Cool Nurse Web site. Accessed Oct. 28, 2004:

 http://www.coolnurse.com/marijuana.htm 

MDCH. "Key Facts from the 2002 National Survey on Drug Use and Health." Michigan

Department of Community Health. Accessed Oct. 28, 2004:   -- ,00.htmlhttp://www.michigan.gov/mdch/0,1607,7-132-2941_4871-79336 

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Trauma is an emotional response to a distressing or disturbing event that overwhelms an individual's ability to cope. It can be caused by a single event, such as a car accident or a natural disaster, or by ongoing stressors, such as abuse or neglect.

Trauma can have a wide range of effects on a person's mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Symptoms of trauma may include flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety, depression, and difficulty concentrating. It can also impact a person's ability to form and maintain relationships, perform daily tasks, and function effectively in work or school.

Trauma can be treated through various therapeutic approaches,....

Effects of Underage Drinking

Underage drinking poses significant risks to the physical, cognitive, and emotional health of youth. The consumption of alcohol by individuals under the legal drinking age has been associated with a wide range of negative consequences, both short-term and long-lasting.

Physical Effects

Liver damage: Alcohol can damage the liver, leading to scarring and cirrhosis.
Heart disease: Excessive alcohol consumption can increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and high blood pressure.
Pancreatitis: Alcoholism can cause pancreatitis, an inflammation of the pancreas.
Cancer: Alcohol consumption has been linked to an increased risk of certain types of cancer, including liver, colorectal,....

Benefits of Wearing a Seatbelt
Seatbelts are an essential safety feature in vehicles, and wearing one significantly reduces the risk of injury or death in the event of a collision. Here are some of the key benefits of wearing a seatbelt:
1. Prevents Ejection from the Vehicle
In the event of a serious collision, a seatbelt can prevent occupants from being ejected from the vehicle. Ejection is one of the leading causes of fatal injuries in car accidents, and wearing a seatbelt can reduce the risk of ejection by up to 75%.
2. Reduces the Risk of Head and Neck Injuries
Seatbelts help restrain occupants....