CAR SAFETY Active and Passive: Car safety features are grouped into two categories: Active and Passive. Active feature are designed to reduce the likelihood of a crash. Things such as tires‚ brakes‚ lights and steering are active features. The most important of all of them however is the driver. Passive safety features aim to reduce the damage done to a car ’s occupants in the event of a crash. These include things like seatbelts‚ airbags‚ and crumple zones. For all these features any car
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Types of Sports Cars Many people have a great fascination for sports cars. These machines have a lot of power and torque‚ and most importantly are lower to the ground‚ contributing to proper aerodynamics against the wind. Moreover‚ they are generally available in either two-wheel drive or four-wheel drive. Two-wheel drive ones are usually used for road racing or drifting‚ whereas AWD sports cars are used for rally racing. Just like any other cars‚ they are also divided into certain groups.
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INTRODUCTION:- A Luxury car is a styled‚ luxurious automobile intended for comfort and satisfaction of its owner or driver‚ sacrificing passenger space‚ cargo capacity and other practical concerns for the sake of style. The luxury cars are very expensive and its price range is above Rs 20 lakhs. Hence these cars are affordable and are preferred by high income group. A Luxury car segment is one which is packed with extra dose of luxury features‚ designed with perfection and beauty for a guaranteed
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automobile. The car has revolutionized transportation from the day a company named "Reo" sold its first car‚ the Curved Dashed Oldsmobile in 1901‚ to today. The topic of cars can be broken into many different categories‚ from SUV and sports to European and American. One maker of cars that has branched a lot in past years is Japan. Though we do not realize it‚ most of our cars come from Japan. The top car company as of 2011 is Toyota. Toyota is a Japanese automobile manufacturer that exports its cars all around
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Can Detroit Make The Cars Customers Want? 1. AutoNation having a problem with its inventory because: * Gasoline prices is high which make customers change their taste to small vehicle and it cause the dealer’s lot overload with unsold gas guzzling pickup truck and SUV. * GM‚ Ford and Chrysler’s manufactures can’t quickly change production model and have been geared toward optimizing the efficient of the production plan * This problem will cause: * Losing market share to the Japanese
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Over the last couple of years many people have wondered if battery electric vehicles (BEV’s) would soon take over the streets and pushout gas powered cars and if it would be a good idea. People should drive BEV’s instead of gas powered cars because they are better in many aspects. In this paper I will explain why it would be a good idea for you to buy a BEV by showing the benefits on your wallet‚ tax incentives and rewards from the government‚ and finishing with the effect on the environment. One
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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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Arlene S. Rabino BSIT401C 1. Choose a car for your electric car conversion. It is best to choose a traditional car to use for your conversion. A traditional car would be one that is not too exotic or complicated. A car that you can easily find replacement parts for is ideal. Look for something lightweight since they will run better on an electric battery than a bigger vehicle will. A car with a manual transmission is better for an electric car since cars with electric motors do not necessarily
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Electric Car has a history but is there a future in the UK or will there be a better option? The invention of the first Electric Car was in 1830 but was not perfected until the creation of rechargeable batteries in 1859. By 1912 50 companies were producing 34‚000 electric cars. Once the development of the electric starting motor occurred and the price of fuel was cheap then the electric cars industry vanished. The oil crisis in the 1970’s caused some re-emergence of electric cars but the high
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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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