#safety vehicle

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Fiat ESV 1500, 1972. Fiat made 13 versions of the Experimental Safety Vehicle which was based on the rear-engined 500 and also used parts from the 126 for a competition created but the American NHBS (National Highway Safety Bureau, later the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, NHTSA).

#Fiat #Fiat ESV 1500 #1972 #safety vehicle #Experimental Safety Vehicle #experimental vehicle #1970s #rear engine #concept #prototype #NHTSA

[f-identity]

[Image description: A series of posts from Jason Lefkowitz @[email protected] dated Dec 08, 2022, 04:33, reading:

It's good that our finest minds have focused on automating writing and making art, two things human beings do simply because it brings them joy. Meanwhile tens of thousands of people risk their lives every day breaking down ships, a task that nobody is in a particular hurry to automate because those lives are considered cheap https://www.dw.com/en/shipbreaking-recycling-a-ship-is-always-dangerous/a-18155491 (Headline: 'Recycling a ship is always dangerous.' on Deutsche Welle) A world where computers write and make art while human beings break their backs cleaning up toxic messes is the exact opposite of the world I thought I was signing up for when I got into programming

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#artificial intelligence #computers #programming #technology #Jason Lefkowitz #Mastodon #labor #transcription #capitalism #corporations #exploitation #class struggle #creativity #humans #safety #survival #vehicles #recycling #generative images #machine learning

[neversetyoufree]

God it just hit me.

Names are power in VnC. We call the piece of the world formula that defines a vampire their "true name." Learning and altering a vampire's true name gives you near-absolute power over them. Vanitas hides his old name as part of his "Vanitas" persona—a defense mechanism to hide his vulnerable self.

And names are an axis of discrimination too. The main way we've been examining discrimination against the dhampirs is through the lens of vampires refusing to call them by their names. And Luna, the perennial outsider, seems not to have been given a real name. They certainly didn't have a name that they liked or identified with for most of their life.

So with all that context, even more than it might be in another series, Teacher's whole name shtick becomes such an insane power move. He changes his name constantly and will brutally punish anyone that gets it wrong. Nobody has the power that would come from knowing whatever his first/true name was. He has the physical and social power to punish and correct anyone that doesn't call him what he wants to be called. He is in complete control of how people address him, or at least close to complete control, which is such a big deal within this story.

#this was just gonna be a post about how it's interesting that names are the vehicle through which dham discrimination has been emphasized #and then I thought of teacher when I was thinking of counter examples #and then this hit me like a bus #if power comes from knowing someone's true name. and safety comes from hiding it #and calling someone what they want to be called/calling them their name is a sign of respect #teacher's found a way to ensure he gets all the safety AND all the respect #(if only out of fear) #also I realize me calling him teacher through this whole post might be a little ironic #but at this point it's just automatic #vnc #vanitas no carte #the case study of vanitas #vnc spoilers #vnc 62 #<<not super directly. but with the dham name thing #english major hours #teacher my beloathed #comte de Saint Germain #the shapeless one

[netscapenavigator-official]

People in the notes of my post about Tesla removing the gear selectors from its new cars, asking how that's even legal, clearly have no idea just how incompetent and slow-paced the NHTSA is.

Halogen headlights weren't legal until 1979.

Composite headlights (the uniquely designed ones that aren't the old-school circle or square ones you see on older cars) weren't legal until 1984.

Adaptive High Beams (Matrix Headlights) were only recently legalized, in 2022; and the regulations and testing procedures in order to approve them are so haphazard and over-complicated compared to Europe's that not a single automaker has even made them available.

Side Curtain airbags still are not mandated in the United States.

Turn Signals can be red in the U.S., as opposed to the statistically safer amber which is mandatory in Europe.

Making that worse, those red turn signals are allowed to share lamps with the brake lights. This means if you have your turn signal on, 1/3 of your brake lights can’t do their job because they're too busy doing another job.

There is no law in the United States dictating that an electric car must put on its brake lights when Regen braking. In fact, the law specifically states that only the friction brakes are required to activate brake lights. You can bring a Hyundai Ioniq 5 & 6, Kia EV6, Genesis GV60, and many other EVs to a rapid, complete stop without ever activating the brake lights.

Early model Chevrolet Bolt EVs and some Mercedes-Benz EVs will activate the brake lights appropriately when slowing down, but will deactivate their brake lights once they've come to a complete stop, allowing the car to sit at a standstill in the road without any indicator that it isn't traveling at the same speed as you are.

It's completely up to the automaker to decide how (or even if) to implement regen brake lighting. EVs and Hybrids have been around since the late 1990s and this still hasn't changed.

The US government STILL only evaluates a vehicles crash safety by crash testing it at 35 mph into a flat wall and t-boning it with a barrier representing a 3,000 lb sedan. They don't do an offset frontal test or a truck-barrier side test like the IIHS has been doing for private insurance companies for over a decade.

The NHTSA performs ZERO pedestrian crash safety tests like EuroNCAP does.

Oh, and on the topic of gear selectors, those aren't regulated at all. Here are some examples from modern cars, both electric and not:

BMW i3 & Nissan LEAF (Electric):

Toyota Prius (Hybrid) & Honda Clarity (Plug-in Hybrid):

RAM 1500 & Cadillac Escalade (Gasoline):

The automotive rules of the American government are pure chaos, and that’s if they're even there at all. If you're seriously asking how Tesla can allow a car to select reverse on its own, and then put the manual override in the touch screen, I mean, that's just scratching the surface.

If you wanna learn more, Technology Connections on YouTube has some great videos on the Turn Signal issue, the EV Regen brake light issue, and the history of the headlight regulations. I highly recommend you check them out because it truly puts into perspective just how awful the NHTSA is at doing its one job: keeping safety standards up-to-date.

#rambles #america #nhtsa #vehicle safety #regulations #car #cars #ev #evs #tesla #fuck tesla #electric cars #electric car #electric vehicles #safety

[coulsonlives]

Holy shit

Can I just say

I am so

motherfucking tired

of these exorbitantly huge

vehicles with front hoods/grilles that are as tall as my head

These need to have the shit taxed out of them and heavily regulated instead of being subsidized as farm equipment and being given out like candy, people are basically like bugs on a windshield if they get hit

#did i mention how all the ~safety features~ that could actually help pedestrians are hardly ever default for these vehicles #and the 'safety ratings' for these vehicles are always about the occupants not how safe they are for using with people outside the vehicle #honourable mention: the front blind spots are HUGE! imagine twenty kids sitting in front of these trucks and only seeing the 21st kid #trucks #pickup trucks #light pickup trucks #gmc denali #gmc sierra #ford f150 #dodge ram #chevrolet 3500 hd #chevrolet silverado #ford ranger #toyota tacoma #nissan v8 #gmc canyon #and others #fuck cars #car dependence #traffic violence #road violence

[defensive-tactics]

Just say no to road rage... you don't have to participate

#Self Defense #Road Rage #Defensive Mindset #Safe while driving #Vehicle Safety #Keep your finger to yourself

[itellmyselfsecrets]

“Men are more likely than women to be involved in a car crash, which means they dominate the numbers of those seriously injured in car accidents. But when a woman is involved in a car crash, she is 47% more likely to be seriously injured than a man, and 71% more likely to be moderately injured, even when researchers control for factors such as height, weight, seat-belt usage, and crash intensity…She is also 17% more likely to die and it all has to do with how the car is designed - and for whom…When men and women are in a car together, the man is most likely to be driving. So not collecting data on passengers more or less translates as not collecting data on women. The infuriating irony of all this is that the gendered passenger/driver norm is so prevalent that…the passenger seat is the only seat that is commonly tested with a female crash-test dummy, with the male crash-test dummy still being the standard dummy for the driver's seat. So stats that include only driver fatalities tell us precisely zero about the impact of introducing the female crash-test dummy.” - Caroline Criado Perez (Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men)

#design bias #male as default #gender data gap #Caroline Criado Perez #womanhood #invisible women #Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men #dibs #car accidents #driving #women’s safety #vehicle safety

[pushing500]

Not sure why the game felt the need to notify me that Vasso and Socks were going skygazing together, but the heads-up was appreciated I suppose. I'm glad they're getting along after their rocky start.

Speaking of getting along, Bella appears to have adopted Dire Wolf as her baby sister and spends a lot of time playing with her. It's very sweet.

While it was originally Blackdragon doing most of the work with our vehicles, lately it has been Laursen rushing to take the mantle of colony mechanic whenever car stuff needs to be done. I think he's just showing off to his husband, but his enthusiasm is endearing no matter what ulterior motives there might be.

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#rimworld #gracie plays #The Children of Ecthuctu #art #my art #traditional art #rimworld art #unpolished art #I enjoy watching my colonists hang out together #Skygazing like Vasso and Socks #or playing together like Bella and Dire Wolf #They're such a cute bunch <3 #I'm a big fan of Bella and Dire Wolf's matching shadecones #Such snappy dressers #Perhaps Laursen noticed Vasso riding the dirtbikes around #And has decided to ensure his husband's safety by meticulously caring for every one of our vehicles #That's a cute way to think about it #Have a great day!! #And Merry Christmas!! 🎄🎅🌟

[nando161mando]

#future #history #electric vehicles #unusual vehicles #vehicle transport #autonomous vehicles #commercial vehicles #vehicles #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #fuck neoliberals #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #roads #road #space #earth #ecology #pollution #pollutants #polluted water #polluted air #safety #health #occupational health and safety

[toytulini]

Okay i have yet to see a post about this that isnt filled with ppl being Annoying as Fuck on it, but,

theyve found wreckage of the submersible, it imploded (thank god, thats better than a drawn out suffocation over the course of several days, implosion means it was pretty much instantaneous) and the us navy have revealed they heard a weird sound on sunday from about where communication with the sub was lost, that was probably the sound of the implosion, [implied that they didnt say anything cos they didnt want to jump to conclusions without evidence of a wreckage, if there was a chance they were still alive.] no idea what the banging sounds were.

I do hope rescue efforts are extended to the migrants off the coast of greece, and am angry and horrified at their mistreatment, and that the media clearly cares less for their fates than that of the billionaires on the sub.

also, while i have you here,

The difference between a submersible and a submarine is not that one is safer. The titan was a submersible that was unsafe, but that is not because it was a submersible.

A submarine (or sub) is a watercraft capable of independent operation underwater.

A submersible is a watercraft designed to operate underwater, usually supported by a nearby surface vessel, platform, shore team or sometimes a larger submarine.

submarines generally dont go as deep as our deepest submersibles, but some can be down there for months at a time bc it is like. a self sufficient Ship. not all submersibles can go crazy deep, but to my knowledge, the only crewed vessels that can go that deep, are submersibles. (Alvin, deepsea challenger, limiting factor, trieste, fendouzhe or "striver").

#toy txt post #titan submersible #if ppl start being annoying on this post. ill turn off reblogs and block all of you. make your own post. #reblog the other ones where people are already being annoying #yes i hate billionaires. but im glad it was a quick death. it was a horrific situation. hope those migrants are given support and help. #i hope oceangate is fined to hell and back and bankrupted and never gets to put anyone in any sort of vehicle ever again #especially not in the ocean. im a little glad that ceo is dead in his own stupid sub im just frustrated he was able to take other ppl with #him. the fact that he was able to operate that unregulated non safety standard meeting ass vehicle and charge people money to ride in it is #fucking insane and unconcioable however you spell that #and now i need to go shower real quick and try to get like. a little over 3hrs of sleep. which will suck but i did accidentally nap for #like? 2 hrs already so it doesnt suck as bad as it could. goodnight please dont be stupid on this post please please please #if you have a hot take on the situation im begging you to hot take it Some Where Else! thank you! good bye #im not gonna bother linking shit feel free to fact check just fuckin. google titan submersible. James Cameron is tossing his 2 cents in now #saw 2 separate articles on that already. thats fine i guess he has been down there in safer vehicles so i guess he can shit talk how unsafe #it is. anyway. saw someone in the comments of a post say it was a submersible bc it was too unsafe to be a submarine and i wanted to start #screaming. thats not what those fucking words mean! at all! god! #irl death #idk what else to tag #behave. bye

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Fiat ESV 2500, 1973. The largest of Fiat's Experimental Safety Vehicles was based on the rear drive Fiat 124 so had a front engine/rear drive configuration but weighed almost twice as much as the car it was based on.

#Fiat #Fiat ESV #Fiat ESV 2500 #safety vehicle #Experimental Safety Vehicle #concept #experimental vehicle #prototype #Fiat 124 #1973 #1970s

[sga-owns-my-soul]

the shrine is good for a lot of reasons but i think my favourite moment is jeannie looking for seatbelts in the jumper when john says it's gonna be a bumpy ride so be prepared

#it's just #it's such a cute little detail #of course she's looking for a seatbelt #that's what you do when you get in any sort of vehicle #gotta buckle up for safety #god i love her #i love jeannie so so so much #in love #jeannie miller #sga #sga the shrine #stargate atlantis

[velichorus-k]

Ramon angrily reciting the road safety psa <3

Probably my personal favourite part of the comic haha

#He's a vehicle of propaganda. #He's also a children's show host #Like if the Wiggles were working for a totalitarian government #asks #three's aground #clh #Wait can I be real about this for a second. Seatbelts only became more widespread in the US when the introduction of them #was aimed at children and framed in the context of child safety. Too brainfried to articulate but Ive connected the dots. Ive connected the #Dont quote me on that btw that knowledge is from like. A passing remark in a middle school class. Dont even remember which one. Dw about it

[gillianthecat]

Net and James are doing a really good job of showing King and Uea as settled into a long-term stable relationship, but still undeniably themselves.

Also I'm really glad that car scenes in movies have the car hooked up to towing rigs, because King is NOT paying any attention to the road.

#it always makes me so nervous in movies when the driver looks away from the road for more than a literal second #they have actors out there staring at the person in the passenger seat for half a minute sometimes! #do you know how many accidents they'd have gotten into in that time? #that is NOT SAFE #gillianthecat liveblogs bl #and grumps about motor vehicle safety #bed friend the series #bed friend ep 10 #bed friend #b

[todaysdocument]

Jacob Nollner's Apparatus for attaining a very high degree of velocity on Railroads or otherwise, patented April 13, 1838. 

Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office

Series: Utility Patent Drawings

Image description: Drawing of what looks like a normal carriage with four wheels, which is on top of a platform with eight wheels, which is on top of a platform with 14 wheels, and then a platform with 18 wheels, and finally a platform with 24 wheels, which is on the railroad tracks. Each platform and the carriage itself has a hitch. It’s a pyramid of wheels on top of wheels and I cannot figure out how it works.

#archivesgov #April 13 #1838 #1800s #patents #patents and trademarks #railroads #vehicles #velocity #do you think you just give it a push and it thumps down the wheel pyramid while the whole thing slides forward? #doesn't seem safe #but then again the 1800s were not known for workplace safety

[defensive-tactics]

Simple Self Defense when driving. Be aware!

#Self Defense #Vehicle Safety #Safe when driving #Threat Awareness #Lock your car doors