life. Mine came on the school bus while I was on my way home from school. The bus had stopped to let a couple kids off and I stood up to throw some trash away. I stood up we were rear ended by a young lady who had been trying to get a bee out of the car and not realized the bus had stopped. I was standing up and the impact caused me to bang into the seat in front of me and the one behind me. I didn’t realize what had happened until moments later when someone said something. As I began to sit down
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR ON IMPULSIVE BUYING The Influence of Culture on Consumer Impulsive Buying Behavior KACE N AND L EE CUL TURE AND IMPUL SIVE BUYING BE HAVIOR Jacqueline J. Kacen Department of Business Administration University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Julie Anne Lee Department of Marketing University of Hawaii–Manoa Impulse buying generates over $4 billion in annual sales volume in the United States. With the growth of e-commerce and television shopping channels‚ consumers
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The Challenge of Designing Electric Cars Dr. Tobias Giebel Tobias Giebel 博士 Sahnghai EXPO‚ May 2010 Contents 内容 • Introduction Group Research and Volkswagen Research Lab China (VRC) 大众汽车集团研发中心概况和大众汽车中国研究实验室(VRC)介绍 • Volkswagens Strategy for Powertrains and Fuel 大众汽车的动力总成及燃料战略 • Blue Motion Technologies 蓝驱技术 • Hybrid Technologies 混合动力技术 • Electrotraction 电驱动技术 • Hydrogen Technologies 氢技术 • Modular Toolbox 模块化设计矩阵 • Conclusion 结论 Dr. Tobias Giebel Tobias Giebel 博士 The Volkswagen Portfolio
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Electric cars look very different under the hood than a gasoline-powered car. For one thing‚ there is a lot less tubing. For another‚ if you look underneath the hood of an electric car‚ one of the first things you will probably notice is the controller‚ which takes energy from the battery and distributes it to the motor in controlled packets. And that’s pretty much it in a nutshell. Instead of a gas tank‚ the electric car keeps its fuel in a battery and relies on the controller‚ not the distributor
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roll forward and take the left turn. As I turned I was t-boned on the front driver side by the white truck‚ which turned out to be a Ford F-450 commercial truck. All I remember hearing was the rumbling of crushing metal. Needless to say my beloved car that I had worked so hard for appeared to be totaled. All of my airbags deployed‚ my front windshield was smashed in‚ the driver’s window was broken‚ my key jammed in the ignition‚ and I was unconscious. When I came to my first reaction was hysterics
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Cars‚ trucks‚ vans‚ SUV’s almost everyone will own or lease one in their lifetime. The biggest problem is the decision whether to buy or lease the automobile. Many people are faced with this question. Buying and leasing a car both have many positive and negative attributes. The beauty of it is that it is your choice! Leasing is one great way to get an automobile. The concept is quite simple. Leasing a car is almost like renting a car for an extended period of time (usually three years)‚ except
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Buy a Car Stephanie Gallion ENG 080 Looking for a new car? Well here are ten easy steps to finding the car that best suits you and your needs. First step‚ “What kind of car do you need?” Instead of worrying about what you are wanting‚ worry about what you are needing. What are you going to use the car for? How many seats do you want to fill? Do you care about gas mileage? What kind of driving do you do the most? How far do you drive every day? Usually people‚ when buying a new car‚ only
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Embedded Technology For Vehicle Cabin Safety Monitoring And Alerting System ABSTRACT Motor vehicles are the prime source of transportation where vehicles with A/C play a major part. This paper designs an embedded system for a vehicle cabin‚ which senses the gases like carbon-monoxide and oxygen and displayed at each and every second. If the level of the CO increases than the normal level (30ppm) or the level of the oxygen decreases than the normal level (19%) then an alarm is generated automatically
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Accident is an unexpected action that happens in a particular place and time. There are many reasons why people have auto accidents‚ but there are some main causes. Driving above the legal speed limit increases a drivers chance of getting in a car accident. The people that speed are not only risking their life’s‚ they are risking the other drivers life to. The drivers that speed probably think that there’s no law or something because at that time they don’t care. I think that the law should be
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The traditional use of petrol cars is dominant in the automobile industry. It has become common for cars to be owned and ridden in the world today. This invention has allowed us to easily travel to one place to another and has greatly improved our system of transportation. However‚ we have failed to realize how much damage is being made to the environment by us humans. In an effort to improve the environment‚ we have now become aware of this. As a result‚ we have developed technology to reduce the
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