Auto makers point to studies, including one by researchers at Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, which show that talking on a cellphone increases the risk of a crash or near-crash by 1.3 times over regular driving, while physically dialing a number increased the risk 2.8 times.
Now, I heard that there was a state dinner going on here -- and usually I get invited to the state dinners. (Laughter.) So this time I just had to crash -- (laughter) -- I had to crash the party because I did not want to miss out on all the fun.
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Automakers say they will continue using rubber-and-steel crash-test dummies indefinitely, but the virtual dummy offers a more flexible and possibly cheaper option.
Kent can compare his own crash simulations with real-world data gathered from a network of automotive-crash investigators associated with hospitals around the country.
Nine safety board teams will examine aspects such as train operations and communications, signals, tracks, crash-worthiness of equipment, maintenance and survivability -- ease of fleeing the trains after the crash and other survivability factors, Hersman said.
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Now, after years of fanfare and promises deferred, it appears highway-worthy, crash-tested, full speed electric vehicles may finally be back.
Would-be salespeople undergo a one-week crash course -- a combined boot camp and pep rally -- that hammers home basic principles of selling and character- building.
We had the 2000 crash, otherwise known as the dot-com crash, which was a bear market lasting from 2000 to 2002, and we had a mini bull market from 2003 to 2007.
Only recently has the first physical dummy for side-impact crashes--the most dangerous type of crash--been approved by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
For the remaining decade he and some hired engineers improved the aqua- barrier design, adding new products like protective sand-filled barrels and the first collapsible crash-cushions.
But those text messages in the air -- which ended 19 minutes before the crash -- turned out to be less consequential than text messages he sent and received while on the ground.
" Salon.com goes on, "As the economy improves, Hathaway -- whose peak of fame, post-boyfriend, pre-Oscar-hosting, came amid the 2008 economic crash -- may just be a reminder of bad times.
While some creeped-out viewers complained that he looked like a crash-test dummy, others were reassured.
But after the oil-price crash in the mid-1980s, life for most of the young became grim.
The city of Busan - close to the crash site - will stage three World Cup matches.
With a house-shaking crash, the dining-room plaster fell all at once.
In February 2005, forty-one-year-old U.S. Army Reserve Staff Sergeant Jack Lewis witnessed the aftermath of a late-night crash involving a nineteen-ton Stryker armored vehicle (call sign "Rattlesnake Six-Seven") and a small car.
Kurt Busch had hoped to go from an upside-down finish when his car went airborne late and crash-landed on Ryan Newman at Talladega last week to his first Sprint Cup victory in two years at Darlington.
It took a series of high-speed accidents--including Wolfgang von Trips killing himself and 11 spectators in a 1961 crash-- before officials added a few chicanes and barriers to slow things down, albeit reluctantly.
Also, the experience of Ireland's banks - where losses rose exponentially for month after relentless month following the 2008 crash - shows how foolish it is to ever assume that you've touched bottom when a massive debt-financed property bubble has been pricked.
Despite scoring one goal for his team, Fabiano saw Sevilla miss out on qualification for the group stages of the Champions League on Tuesday as they lost the second leg of their play-off 4-3 to crash out 5-3 on aggregate against Portuguese club Braga.
Glacier Girl was part of a squadron of six P-38s and two B-17s en route to Iceland in 1942 when bad weather forced them to crash-land on a glacier in Greenland.
As for the Roswell incident, nearly two-thirds of the respondents to the poll said they believed that a UFO crash-landed in a field outside the New Mexico town 50 years ago next month.
He'd survived layoffs at Goldman Sachs' Silicon Valley offices during the dot-com crash, become a well-regarded equity analyst of data storage companies, then taken his stock-picking skills into hedge funds.
Makers of the rival French-made Mega City electric car point out that their cars are routinely and successfully crash-tested.
The computer as digital home entertainment hub is the tech world's endless come-on, but it has always seemed the kind of idea that only a crash-tolerant geek could embrace.
Audits commissioned by the Spanish government recently showed its banking sector -- beset by bad debt in the aftermath of the country's property market crash -- is likely to need 60 billion to 70 billion euros in extra cash to stay solvent.
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In another crash, a Dutch woman was named by police as the victim of a two-car crash on the shore of Loch Ness.
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But they're probably right that the field of available candidates is tiny, not least because - since the great crash of 2007-8 - the Financial Services Authority has set the bar much higher in respect of the qualifications and experience required of a chief executive of a big international bank (the FSA's approval is required for any senior bank appointment).
Well, to state the bleedin' obvious, in the aftermath of the ratings agencies' catastrophically poor performance in the run-up to the great crash of 2007-8, their pronouncements don't have the quite the authority they once did.
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