Cars of Today vs. Cars of Yesterday The cars of today and the cars of yesterday have many similarities as well as many differences. Many of these similarities include; optimal handling‚ technology ahead of their time‚ basic parts such as a motor‚ wheels‚ a drivetrain and a body. Many of the practices used when (automobiles first originated in 1672) are being used even to this day. According to the United States Automobile Association‚ (cars are a vital part of today’s society and play a large
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Faith Lowe Oct. 20‚ 2011 Should Cars be Equipped with Breathalyzers? According to information from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration‚ there are approximately 17‚000 people killed by drunk drivers every year. Drunk drivers whose alcohol level is above .08. Most drunk drivers involved in fatality crashes are repeated offenders. In fact nearly half of the fatal crashes were cars driven by drunk drivers with a suspended license. They often slip through the cracks with a slap
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How Hybrid Cars Work A hybrid car is a passenger vehicle that is driven by a hybrid engine‚ which is any engine that combines two or more sources of power‚ generally gasoline and electricity. There are two types of gasoline-electric hybrid cars; the parallel hybrid‚ and the series hybrid. Both use gasoline-electric hybrid technology‚ but in radically different ways. In a parallel hybrid car‚ a gasoline engine and an electric motor work together to move the car forward‚ while in a series hybrid
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The Hobbit Critical Essay A novel that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed in English this year is “THE HOBBIT” by J.R.R.Tolkien‚ which is part of the widely known fantasy genre. The plot of the book is about a young hobbit by the name of Bilbo Baggins who is visited by a band of dwarves lead by the great Thorin Oakenshield and a grand wizard called Gandalf who are looking for someone to share an adventure with and reclaim the dwarven kingdom from the mighty dragon Smaug. At the beginning of the adventure
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Hybrid Cars I have always wondered what Hybrid cars were all about. Especially because over the past couple of years gas prices have been at record highs. I knew that there were such things as electric cars but until this last year or so I have only seen the wealthy be able to afford to drive them. And from what I had heard about Hybrid cars was that they were over priced‚ small‚ and not so attractive cars. No wonder nobody owns them. Now I am starting to see them more often and they aren’t as
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now self driving cars. Driverless cars should be on roads because they prevent car accidents‚ are self-evident and efficient. “Google has a fleet of driverless cars since 2009‚ and they’ve been driven over a half of a million miles without a crash” according to Jamie Page Deaton and Kristen Hall-Geisler in the article ‘Cars of tomorrow-still not fling.’ Humans get into an accident every a half a million miles‚ this shows that driverless cars are a safer alternative. These cars had a 3D model brain
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The Future Is Electric‚ Not Oil-powered Cars Electric vehicles are a topic of great importance to the future of GM … and to the future of our country for that matter.. Over the last day and half‚ you’ve heard a number of interesting perspectives about how to address energy independence and climate change … and there are some great vehicles on display here that contribute to the solution to those issues. I’d like to talk about General Motors’ vision … and why we are also inspired to help
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SPEECH OUTLINE Title: HYBRID CAR INTRODUCTION Attention Getting Opener 1. Show Video Clip 2. Introduce myself Greeting Assalamualaikum and very good morning to my lecturer sir Md Shaiful Anuar bin Wagiman‚ friends and my fellow audience. Preview My topic will be according my three main points‚ that is: i. Advantage of using hybrid car ii. Disadvantage of hybrid car iii. Benefits of driving a hybrid car Transition 1: Ladies and gentlemen‚ I will start with my first main
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releasing more energy and waves of shorter wavelengths. 3. a. Draw the energy-level diagram and write the electronic configuration for zirconium (element 40). (3 marks) Energy-level diagram for zirconium is drawn below: 4d 5s 4p 3d 4s 3p 3s 2p 2s 1s Electronic configuration for zirconium is given below: 1s2 2s2 2p6 3s2 3p6 4s2 3d10 4p6 5s2 4d2 b. Use the diagram to explain why the Zr4+ ion exists. (2 marks) When the outer orbitals are filled with
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computer or any gadgets. The election system is modern. By using a system‚ many people find it easily to vote because they will no longer vote manually. Computerized election system is the best way to use rather than the manual election. Among the different biometric techniques‚ facial recognition may not be the most reliable and efficient. However‚ one key advantage is that it does not require aid (or consent) from the test subject. Properly designed systems installed in airports‚ multiplexes‚ and
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