Texting and Driving Ding! You hear your phone go off while you are driving and you look down for one, solitary second. Bam! Was your life really worth that one text message? The answer is no. Yes, texting and driving is a big problem in the world, everyday at least 9 people die and at least 1,000 are injured due to distracted drivers. But with your help, we can confine texting and driving for good. People should not text and drive because people can die, it hurts insurers and your insurance rates
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Behind the starting gate all the riders lined up hearts racing, sweat running down their faces, anxious hoping to take the whole shot. Engines rev up, and the riders dump the clutch flying out of the starting gate, racing to round the first corner before the others. The spectators might see the race as competition between a bunch of riders, but it's more so between the rider and his bike. My hobby started as a crazy dream to be like Travis Pastrana. I’m going to give you a lesson on how a dream turned
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Should the Driving Age Be Raised? The first driver's license was issued a little over one-hundred years ago in 1901. In 1909 Pennsylvania was the first state to put an age restriction on a driver's license. Since then teens all across America have waited till they turn sixteen to acquire their license. All across America young-adults wait until this magic age for this rite of passage to adulthood. The United States should keep the current driving age the same because of the option of newly developed
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“Driving to the Funeral” is a writing from Anna Quindlen that talks about how too many teens are dying from car crashes. The purpose of this writing is to inform the readers about how too many teen drivers are being killed by car crashes. The main point of this writing is to inform the readers that it is better to raise the legal driving age up because teens are not ready to drive at the age of sixteen. The audience of this selection is intended for adults, because it is used a lot of hard facts
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It is doubtful that someone would jump in front of a moving train. This is based on the assumption that they are intelligent enough to know that by jumping in front of a train they are going to get hit. And that outcome is not in their favor. If they would not jump in front of a train, then why would someone think it was a good idea to drive in front of one. The reasons for driving in front of a train, or onto the train tracks, are probably as diverse as the number of people who do this. There
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In 1913 Ford had an absentee rate of 10 percent and the annual turnover was 370 percent. Another problem with Ford during this time was that only the rich were able to buy their cars. Ford tried to improve on these numbers by offering $5 a day for an 8 hour work day (Budd 31). Ford increasing the pay of his employees helped to improve both of these issues that his company was facing. After this change the unskilled workers at Ford were able to purchase the the cars they were producing and other
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is crossing of two or more types of power to make a cleaner more efficient vehicle. In the next 5 years introduction to new hybrids diesel will out dominant gasoline in the United States. Today, diesel can be as desirable to consumer as gasoline automobile. The question is diesel better than gas? the diesel is more fuel efficient, burns slower and lasts longer also less emissions into the atmosphere. There are many advantages of having a diesel vehicle but some people disagree. According to the article
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Being in a car crash can be a terrifying thing! No matter the size of the accident. It’s something that puts your life into danger! Thousands of people are involved in car crashes every year. According to the the website, “Edmunds.com,” they claim that “In 2001, nearly 42,000 people died on America's roadways.” “...accidents will continue to pile up; with no end in sight!” states,streetdirectory.com. As time continues there will be more and more drivers on the road, which means we will need to be
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This graph incicates that the amount of crashes caused by people who are aged 20-35 are are mostly effected by drink driving and/or drug driving. It happens more to younger people, the reason for this is because of their will of freedom and being more open to the new world causes them to be wreckless and perr presure can bring them down as well. Around 1000 drivers are caught drink driving and just under half of that, are the amount of deaths caused by drink driving. The analysis showed, 11 per
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Auto Zone has to adapt to the challenges that social forces present. As gas prices fluctuate, so do social trends on what consumers choose to drive. As fuel costs increase, vehicle size decreases (Parnell, 2008). Fuel efficiency is directly related to not only fuel costs, but also environmental issues and our dependency on foreign oil. The United States receives about 60% of its oil from other countries (Flintoff, 2012). Sine the US receives more oil from outside environments, pricing can fluctuate
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