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Most of the other essays suffer from a narrow perspective, starting with the overly technical description of the causes of the crash by Catherine Cowley.

The project will also implement numerous safety enhancements, including but not limited to the widening of shoulders, removal of weaving sections and left - hand exits, and improvements to interchange signaling, which are estimated to reduce the number of crashes by 13 percent.

An additional active safety feature included in the available Advance Package is the Collision Mitigating Braking System ™ (CMBS ™) which helps reduce the likelihood of a crash by alerting the driver to potential collision situations as well as activating the brakes if the system determines a collision likely is unavoidable.

Antilock brakes on trucks reduced the risk of a crash by 65 percent, while having electronic or roll stability control was associated with a 19 percent lower crash risk.

Antilock braking systems for large trucks reduced the risk of crashing by 65 percent.

In addition to standard features like side impact protection, the Marathon comes with unique design inclusions like an impact - absorbing base that minimizes the force of a crash by functioning like a suspension system.

In the city, a front light is more effective than a rear light in WHAT TO DO: reducing the chance of a crash by adding Light giveaways ideally occur at dusk.

It also increases the severity of the crash by exerting a greater force on any objects the car contacts.

Simply reaching for your mobile device raises the risk of crashing by almost five times.

Past studies from researchers at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute have shown that dialing a phone could increase a drivers» chance of crashing by 12 times.

If, after investigation, you are found guilty of the crash by 51 % or more, you will not be able to make a claim for damages and injuries from the other party's auto insurance company.

Driving experts have also counseled that raising your speed is only likely to reduce your drive time by mere minutes; however, it can increase the risk of crashing by more than fifty percent.

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The Great Depression was primarily started by the Wall Street crash of 1929, as well as bank failures in the early 1930's.

In B.C. especially, companies such as QLT Inc., Angiotech Pharmaceuticals and Cardiome Pharma Corp. saw their valuations soar in the early 2000s, only to come crashing to earth by the end of the decade as a result of competitive pressures, regulatory snags, strategic blunders and deals gone awry.

Shortly after Oliver unveiled the address, the FCC claimed its website had crashed under a denial of service attack by unknown hackers, a claim which some have questioned.

A poll conducted by YouGov found that the run - up to Thursday's 20th anniversary of Diana's death in a Paris car crash had hit Charles's popularity.

The crash in 1989 was also precipitated by the Bank of Canada's decision to rapidly raise interest rates.

These «crumple zones,» inspired by and named after the parts of a car meant to crush on impact to reduce the force of a crash, allow it to absorb some of the energy of a collision.

«There was sort of a myth out there that if diamonds weren't managed by De Beers, the whole market would crash, because they had so many diamonds in their basement,» Gannicott recalls.

After all, a personal financial crash is almost always preceded by a long period of financial instability.

The survey revealed that 73 percent of respondents are concerned that drones could damage property by crashing into a house, and 55 percent are worried that drones could cause injury to people, like poking out an eye.

«I'm struck by how many investors and investment - bank econ departments were putting out notes one week before the election [saying] that if Trump wins, the markets will absolutely crash... amazingly, many of these exact same investors and economists now say Trump is great for stocks,» Gundlach said.

Iranian investigators on Monday found the «black box» from the Turkish plane and all the dead from the crash site in the Zagros Mountains, some 370 kilometres south of Iran's capital, Tehran, according to a report by the state - run IRNA news agency.

I've looked previously at some of the arguments made by the housing bears, for example in «Housing crash predictions using wrong indicators.»

Meanwhile, the out - of - production Challenger business jet that crashed in Iran was owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran.

Most of these programs were rejected by Apple because they failed to meet the set of technical requirements that are designed to protect iPhones from excessive crashing.

According to research conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, 26 per cent of all fatal and injury crashes are attributed to driver fatigue, and in 2006, as many as 167,000 Ontario drivers were involved in at least one crash due to fatigue or drowsiness.

Musk responded by telling Fortune that the crash was «not material to the value of Tesla.»

You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

But those swings in the market over the past year often caused by macroeconomic shocks such as the crash of the Shanghai Composite in 2015 and the Brexit referendum, also relegated some investors to the sidelines.

Spam While it's hard to pin down the one person who decided that junk mail should be called spam, internet entrepreneur and author Brad Templeton says that the famous Monty Python viking spam sketch, which made the lunch meat synonymous with unrelenting repetition, was adopted by the users of very early chat rooms in the late 1980s to describe the process of overwhelming a computer with data to crash it.

By requiring users to register their drones the FAA hopes to curb a recent spate of close calls between drones and commercial aircraft as well as incidents like the recent high - profile crash of a photography drone into the stands at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

U.S. auto safety regulators said on Thursday that 20 automakers have agreed to make automatic emergency braking standard on nearly all U.S. vehicles by 2022, a move that could prevent thousands of rear - end crashes annually.

On Thursday, the National Transportation Safety Board said that after a series of public disclosures by Tesla it had taken the unusual step of revoking Tesla's status as a formal party to its investigation of a March 23 crash in California that killed a driver who was using Autopilot.

Even before the crash, some were alarmed by videos posted online of drivers allowing autopilot — sort of a teaser of anticipated full self - driving car technology — to take over the wheel of the car.

This eye - catching graph pops out of a report published by Boston Consulting Group on January 21: it illustrates how the current oil price crash, while not (yet) the deepest in recent memory, is the longest - lasting — and counting.

April 2 - Tesla Inc was reported on Monday to be making 2,000 of its Model 3 sedans per week as shares of billionaire Elon Musk's electric carmaker slid, driven by news a crash in California had involved its semi-autonomous autopilot.

This means that we calculate the commonness of something by how quickly we can recall an example, which is what makes plane crashes and child abductions seem like much bigger threats than they realistically are.

For instance, Albert Wiggin, head of Chase National Bank, cleaned up during the crash of 1929 by short - selling his own company stock.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

A military satellite launched by Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies appears to have crashed into the sea following a malfunction in the latter stages of its ascent, representing a potential setback for the billionaire's rocket program.

Debtoptions was started this year by Claire Cullinane who maintains that the Irish are being unfairly hounded out of their homes and the economy destroyed as a result of having to pay for a crash primarily caused by the banks.

The best way to prepare for a market correction is by putting money on companies that can deliver growth, one asset manager told CNBC, as talk of a potential stock market crash grows.

It did not name the driver, identified by ABC 7 News as Apple engineer and former EA programmer Walter Huang, while confirming that its Autopilot feature was engaged at the time of the crash.

In its latest Winter Business Outlook Survey conducted by the Bank of Canada, the adverse effects of the oil crash continue to spread beyond the resource sector to other regions and industries.

It also plans a «step change» in aviation security following the crash of a Russian airliner in Egypt last month, which Britain has said it believes was brought down by a bomb.

In September that year, a 26 - pound bundle of marijuana, possibly carried by a drone, crashed into a dog house at a home in Nogales, Arizona, near the Mexican border.

In terms of visibility, your goal is to be in a kind of celestial sweet spot where you are orbiting not too far away from the big planets or the smaller ones (so you can keep an eye on both), but not so close that you get pulled by gravity into them (and crash).

One: books about how the financial crash happened and why (Making it Happen, The Alchemists, The Unwinding, The Billionaire's Apprentice, After the Music Stopped) and two: books about the business and culture of technology (The Everything Store, Smarter Than You Think, as well as Hatching Twitter, by Nick Bilton and Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution, by Fred Vogelstein.)

In 2017, NHTSA closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal crash involving a driver using the system and cited data from the automaker that crash rates fell by 40 percent after installation of Autopilot's Autosteer function.