see past next bend. I was driving slow and monitoring my surroundings but I got pulled over by a cop and he told me that he pulled me over for passing a school bus. This was a single lane, tree lined road and even though I was following all the signs and speed limits and being careful, I never saw this school bus. I am still not sure if the bus was on side road or some service road. When I go in front of the judge, I will explain what happened from my point of view, and how sorry I am that
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within the transportation system—vehicles, roads, traffic lights, message signs, etc.—to become intelligent by embedding them with microchips and sensors and empowering them to communicate with each other through wireless technologies. In the leading nations in the world, IT’S bring significant improvement in transportation system performance, including reduced congestion and increased safety and traveler convenience. Imagine knowing real-time traffic conditions for virtually every highway or arterial
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For our study our interest was in looking at the relationship between stress and road rage. Each researcher asked five people to complete the survey; in total we recruited 22. The participants were composed of family, friends, classmates, and coworkers. Participants received an invitation and an informed consent form in order to complete the survey through email or Facebook, which then directed them to a survey generator called Survey Monkey. We created 20 questions for our survey; ten questions
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when they are in a rush. Have you ever wonder why there are different speed limits around the U.S.? I bet you have. Every day somewhere, someone gets in a car crash or is getting a traffic ticket. The reasons for these situations is because people don’t go by the speed limit. In 1974, President Richard M. Nixon, signs the Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act, setting a new national maximum speed limit. He signed a federal law lowering all national highway speed limits to 55 MPH. This act was
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I respectfully submit this written declaration to the Court pursuant to CVC 40902. I plead NOT GUILTY to the charge of violating CVC 22349(a). While I was driving on Interstate 805, southbound in the carpool lane, at 11 in the morning on 04/28/2017, I noticed an aggressive car in behind me, tailgating at a very close distance. The driver of that car seemed reckless and inpatient, and started to follow me almost bumper to bumper, creating an unsafe situation. Since I could not immediately move to
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2010, I had no idea it would be a day that would change my life forever. I thought it was just a normal start to a typical Wednesday. The smell of summer was in the air and the dew was still sparkling on the individual blades of grass. The other true sign that summer had arrived was my bike. Since I started riding ten years ago, motorcycles have been more than a means of transportation. They are a source of fun, entertainment, and happiness. Nothing is more liberating than feeling the wind passing over
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Background: Traffic congestion is not a new problem. The number of automobiles and trucks have been increased during the last few decades after the car boom period. So there was an urgent need for constructing more highways and bridges , improving traffic-signal controllers, making changeable highway signs, rerouting rush hour traffic, creating traffic-control centers that monitor and display the overall traffic conditions, using preplanned alternative traffic solutions based on repeated daily
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land. The first impact is on rules and regulations of traffic. The cars are no longer using the roads so the rules and regulations should be changed into or create new rules and regulations for air traffics. That’s because the cars are airborne. But rules and regulations should not be the same as air traffic up in sky. Rules and Regulations only apply to cars that are airborne. The second impact is on the street and civilians. Roads signs and light posts are no longer in use, it has to be
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Is it possible to develop driverless vehicles based on GPS technology only? Driverless vehicles; science fiction or reality? Well vehicles are coming with more and more intelligence and computation powers nowadays then they were 10 years ago. Today vehicles are coming equipped with much more intelligent driver assistance system like auto parking, lane warning, intelligent cruise control, emergency braking, Anti Braking System etc. But could this intelligence evolve drastically and vehicles could
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of traffic………………………………………………………. .1 2 3 4 5 2. A slow vehicle on a mountain road will not pull over and let people by…………. .1 2 3 4 5 3. Someone backs right out in front of you without looking……………………………... 1 2 3 4 5 4. Someone runs a red light or stop sign………………………………………………..… 12 3 4 5 5. You pass a radar speed trap………………………………………………………………….1 2 3 4 5 6. Someone speeds up when your try to pass him/her……………………………..………. 1 2 3 4 5 7. Someone is slow in parking and is holding up traffic……………………………………
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