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Pub. Date
c2012
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Whether you drive for a living, live to drive, or drive just to get yourself around, safe driving means being aware of situations that cause accidents or injuries and knowing what you can do to avoid or prevent them. Using a variety of driving scenarios, this book walks you step by step through the intricacies of the Driving System -- the Driver, the Vehicle and the Driving Environment. You'll learn how to maintain your vehicle -- and it's driver...
85) On the road
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Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Teaches children the different ways to keep safe whether walking near traffic, riding a bike, boarding a bus, or riding in the car.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
How the rise of the car, the symbol of American personal freedom, inadvertently led to ever more intrusive policing—with disastrous consequences for racial equality in our criminal justice system.
When Americans think of freedom, they often picture the open road. Yet nowhere are we more likely to encounter the long arm of the law than in our cars. Sarah Seo reveals how the rise of the automobile led us to accept—and expect—pervasive police...
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Griff Jones, an award-winning high school physics teachers goes behind the scenes at the Institute's Vehicle Research Center to explore the basic science behind car crashes. Using a series of vehicle maneuvers on a test track plus filmed results of vehicle crash tests. Jones explains in anything but lecture style the concepts of inertia, the relationship between crash forces and inertia, momentum and impulse, and a lot more. He shows why speed and...