How many times have you been stuck in traffic‚ wishing to yourself that your car could just take off into the air‚ fly straight over the backed up highway and get you home within minutes? Flying cars have always been a concept of the future but it’s starting to look as if the future is here. As crazy as it sounds‚ the PAL-V One has just successfully concluded a series of test flights in their flying car at the Gilze Rijen Airport (The Netherlands). The PAL-V stands for Personal Air and Land Vehicle
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Google driverless car became the first licensed autonomous car. Three years since they began research‚ Google’s investment in this project has proven fruitful as this technology has become possible. This advancement shows great development and progress to General Motors’ Futurama exhibit from the 1939 World’s Fair. Designed by Norman Bel Geddes‚ it depicted electric cars powered by circuits embedded in the roadway and controlled by radio [ (O ’Toole‚ Dude‚ Where ’s My Driverless Car?‚ 2009) ]. A
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More People Own Cars In 1918‚ only 1 in 13 families owned a car. By 1929‚ 4 out of 5 families had one. In the same time period‚ the number of cars on the road increased from 8 million to 23 million. In fact‚ the industry grew so fast; by 1925 over 10% of all people in the workforce had something to do with production‚ sales‚ service‚ or fueling of automobiles. Buying on Credit At first‚ a buyer had to have cash to purchase a car. Banks were unwilling to lend money for something that was difficult
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autonomous cars are also known as self-driving cars are becoming more and more possible‚ but when were they started to be pursued. According to the article “Autonomous Cars Through the Ages” by Tom Vanderbilt‚ “ humans have dreamed about autonomous cars since the day of Leonardo Da Vinci’s robotic cart (Vanderbilt).” Then later in the 1920’s is when they started being experimenting on. Then by the 1950’s‚ there were some trials that started looking promising. In the article “Autonomous Cars Through
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Should We Be Allowed to Break the Law? Every country around the world as well as every community within its given country has laws‚ but what exactly are laws? According to the Oxford Dictionary a law is‚ “the system of rules which a particular country or community recognizes as regulating the actions of its members and which it may enforce by the imposition of penalties‚” (Oxford‚ 2013). Keeping the definition in mind it is undoubtedly obvious that laws are created with a purpose behind them. That
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Assignment • Application Assignment on Situational Analysis and SWOT common to all themes pgs MM-112 to MM-122 PART B and C (to be submitted together) (15+ 5 Marks) Company –Strengths and weaknesses Analysis Remember this assignment is in continuity to the previous marketing assignment. Here we do a strength and weakness analysis for our company vis -a- vis competitors. We need to know: A. What special strength/ competence or assets company has to satisfy the needs of customers? B. Who competes
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Related Relative Risk of Drivers Fatalities and Driver Involvement in Fatal Crashes in Relation to Driver Age and Gender. JORNAL OF STUDIES ON ALCOHOL.387-395 Problems that motivated the researchers to do this study: * The number of deadly car accidents in the U.S. caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol has increased in the past decades making alcohol one of the main factors of fatal crashes. * The legal level of BAC (blood alcohol concentration) in the U.S. has changed. 31
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W2.1.1 Part 1: The Intelligence Phase ONLINE FILE W2.1 THE MMS RUNNING CASE MMS Rent-a-Car‚ based in Atlanta‚ Georgia‚ has outlets at major airports and cities throughout North America. Founded by CEO Elena Markum several years ago‚ it has seen fast growth over the past few years‚ mainly because it offers quality service‚ fast‚ at convenient locations. MMS is highly competitive‚ able to offer cars at slightly lower rates than its competitors because most of its airport facilities are located
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standing vehicle? Domestic Vs. Import Challenging every car company in the world‚ fuel economy‚ quality‚ and of course cost. How would the world be with out vehicles of various forms as a form of transportation? A question we all may have to soon figure out with out cars the world wouldn’t have as much pollution sure but how are we gonna get some where safely‚ reliably‚ and quickly. Basically in the United States of America there are two types of cars‚ imports and domestics imports meaning being shipped
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This is a major strength that the company has capitalized on in order to separate itself from the competition. Their "We’ll pick you up!"� slogan is the primary focus of the company’s customer service aspect. After the customers‚ the focus is on employees. Good customer service comes from only the best employees and Enterprise wants all of their employees to be happy with their jobs. By offering a sense of ownership and incentives to advance within the company‚ Enterprise employees are often very
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