likely to cause an accident than driving intoxicated C. The same as driving after 4 beers – National Hwy Transportation Safety Admin. . D The number one driving distraction reported by teen drivers Texting and driving: A. Makes you 23X more likely to crash – National Hwy Transportation Safety Admin. B. Is the same as driving blind for 5 seconds at a time –VA. Tech Transportation Institute C. Takes place by 800‚000 drivers at any given time across the country
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daily. The AAA foundation for traffic safety is a non-profit organization that was created and is dedicated to saving lives and reducing injuries on the roads by conducting educational research. The foundation creates educational materials such as brochures‚ handbooks and videos for the education of drivers and potential drivers. They teach the driver the safety and potential hazards that can arouse while on the road and the means to prevent them. The cell phone feature debated in the AAA research
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surfaced. Should there be laws against using cell phones while driving? The statistics about distracted driving‚ which includes any type of distraction‚ show that distracted driving causes accidents. According to the United States Department of Transportation‚ 5‚747 people were killed because of driving distractions and approximately 448‚000 were injured in 2009 alone (1) Using a cell phone is just another way that driver are distracted. The debate rages on…should there be a specific law against
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Discuss the role that banker and banker compensation played in the credit crisis and some of the reforms to banker bonuses which have been suggested and implemented and your views as to their effectiveness? The bankers were not the main cause of the crisis but they played an important role in the crisis. It was the caused of the banks run causing them to have liquidty problems an example of a famous bank run would be the northern rock incident.It was a change in culture of the bankers making them
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teenagers said they were in a car when a distracted driver used the cellular device. According to HG.org‚ texting is the most dangerous activity that causes car accidents. Virginia Technology Transportation studies show people are 23 times more likely to have accidents while distracted driving. The AAA Foundation showed that teen drivers were distracted about a quarter of the time when they were behind the
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gal from 2013 numbers‚” a GasBuddy post states. AAA is predicting much of the same. “Gas prices most likely will average slightly less in 2014 as refineries continue to expand production capacity and increasingly rely on North American crude oil‚” a year-end AAA post states. “Gas prices should average slightly less in 2014 if everything goes as expected‚ but most drivers may not even notice because the difference could be relatively small‚” said AAA spokesman Avery Ash. (MORE: Why the Era of High
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Roosevelt started certain programs to employ as many people as possible. The ones we will cover are the Agricultural Adjustment Act‚ The Civilian Conservation Corps‚ and the Works Progress Administration. The Agricultural Adjustment act known as the AAA; was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies
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Senior Citizens as a Safety Hazard i had a general thought of the senior citizen population‚ that they were all losing there reflexes and vitals‚ making them all bad drivers. While in wawa yesterdayI have always had a general thought of the senior citizen population: that they were all losing their reflexes and vitals‚ making them all bad drivers. I have had experience in situations with seniors on the road‚ and I have also ridden in a car with one before. While in Wawa recently‚ I was holding
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an initiative by the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia‚ Canada (ICBC)‚ and the American Automobile Association of Michigan (AAA) to help position the nation’s largest auto insurer as the most safety-conscious insurer. ICBC had patterned its program on an earlier effort in Victoria‚ Australia. AAA‚ in turn‚ benchmarked its program on the ICBC program. AAA invited State Farm to help fund one of its intersection studies. State Farm saw this as an opportunity to expand its effort into a
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One of the most popular item on a bucket list is learning how to drive. This is an accomplishment that is usually done between the late teenage years to the early young adult years. As we all know‚ driving is the most used form of transportation in America‚ but it is also the leading cause of accidents. The question is what is being done about it‚ with the advancement of technology and database‚ we should be seeking ways to reprimand it. I am going to be talking about different methods designed to
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