Essays on Transport Page 35

Data has become the new oil to the Mobility Industry. We have been seeing a major change in the way people move from point A to point B with the advent of car sharing and ride sharing businesses like Uber, Lyft and Ola in the past decade. The ride sharing business is only going to…

I was in a fantastic m0od that morning, my fantasy football team won, my school was taking us on a trip to the 9/11 memorial museum, therefore was missing most of it that day. As I was starting up my 2003 olive green Toyota Corolla, my late grandfather’s car, I received a text from a…

Introducing the Predicament Self-driving vehicles are forms of transportation that use sensors and environmental data to navigate routes without the presence of a human driver. According to an article written by Jon Walker (2019), manager of Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), Ford expects to have manufactured a self-driving car by 2021. With the technology revolution, self-driving…

The biggest focus in the automobile world right now is self driving cars. When will most cars driving around on the streets be self driving and how will that affect our lives? The first self driving car to be mass produced was the Tesla Model X in 2016. This was a major breakout in the…

Research shows that driving under the influence of alcohol remains associated with up to 40% of traffic fatalities in the US, despite law enforcement efforts to discourage drunk driving (Hadjizacharia et al.,2010 ). When you are drunk you do not realize what choices you have made and you are not aware of how much danger…

As technological advancements continue to improve our lives, what will be the next great innovation? The most likely one that will soon change the way we live is the self-driving car. Self-driving cars have the potential to vastly improve traffic safety by eliminating human error, a significant positive environmental impact, and will greatly benefit people…

In Kashmir 22 people were killed, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province 25 people killed,21 injured. As you can see this is an astonishing amount of lives being taken, its heart-clenching to say the least and could easily have been minimized if not avoided. As previously stated when heavy rainfall roads are damaged, bridges, traffic, and the…

Drunk driving is considered a serious offense in every state many people have lost lives because of reckless people driving intoxicated, it has endangered public safety in cities and on highways. According to national highway traffic administration, 37,133 people died in traffic crashes in 2017 in united states it includes an estimate of 10,000 more…

In our daily lives there are many accidents that can cause casualties and injuries such as car accidents. According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, in 2017 there’s an approximate of 37,133 deaths in the United States due to car accidents. However, there are advanced technologies that can help prevent these deaths such as…

Problem Statement Self-driving cars promise a much safer and more comfortable traffic environment, yet in the process they raise a lot of questions and dilemmas. As long as there are still unpredictable factors like non-autonomous vehicles, pedestrians in traffic or mechanical/electrical failures, self-driving cars will be vulnerable to crashes or other incidents. In some cases,…