If a car drives with a speed of 80 km/h and suddenly the driver reacts and pushes on the brakes with a reaction time of 0.6 seconds and the acceleration is -6.2 m/s^2 during the braking, how do I calculate the braking distance and the shutdown distance?
Using kinematics equation, v^2=v0^2+2gx, where v is the final velocity, v0 is the initial velocity, g is the acceleration which is negative in out case and x, which is the distance to get the car from 80km/h to 0km/h with the given deacceleration. Thus v is 0. Solving for x will give the distance required for the car to come to an complete stop. Thats for the first part and for the second part, we can get a distance the car travel within the reaction time,t by multipling the reaction time with car vocity. This is the distance the car covers before the brake is initiated. Adding this distance and the distance from first part will give you the total distance car requires to come to a full stop, that's with the reaction time included. Make sure to convert all units to m/s.
If I hit a deer can I shoot it to put it out of its misery?
A friend of mine had to put down a dog that someone else had hit on the highway. The dog was clearly mortally wounded and suffering on the side of the road. My friend had a pistol for self defense, and shot the poor thing twice to end it’s pain. Based on the state of the dog and lack of a collar my friend believes the dog was a stray who lived in the woods.He called the police afterwards, mainly worried that someone might report hearing the shot and suspect poaching (it was the Fish and Wildlife people that actually came out even though he called regular 911). He also didn’t know what to do with the carcass. When the officer arrived he kindly informed him that it was illegal because he was too close to the road and for some other reasons, then shook his hand and thanked him for being compassionate. No ticket, no nothing. As with many things in the US it’s generally easier to get forgiveness than permission.This was in Florida near the Ocala Forest about 4 years ago, I suspect it’d be a bit different downtown, but then police officers are usually much closer and deer much further downtown anyway.
Can a low impact car wreck cause transmission problems? if so how can i PROVE it to insurance?
I was rear ended on 4/30/09 by 5/4/09 my check engine light came on, I had just got my oil changed on 4/25/09 and the car was fine i figured it was maybe some low fluid took it back to jiffy lube and they said everything was fine. i drove 2 days with the light on and then i went to reverse out of a parking stall and my reverse would not work. i then started thinking it was part of the wreck. On 5/8/09 my car started shifting in 2nd and 4th gear really hard. by 5/10/09 my car is now not shifting, wont reverse and practically un drivable. So would a car accident cause this all to happen? or is it just bad timing? I drive a 2003 Hyundai accent with only 78k on miles, automatic transmission...
Will a deer strike show up in a auto dealer vehicle report/carfax report?
Only Carfax knows where they get their data. Request a Carfax report on your vehicle and see what it says. If the repairs were done adequately and do not show that work was done, it will not be a problem. You can do your own value estimate. Go to Kelley Blue Book, www.kbb.com. You can get an estimate on the trade in value by inputting your specific data. You can also do a search to see what similar vehicles are selling for. The retail value should be about 20% higher than the trade in value. I recently traded in a Dodge. The dealer offered $2,000 on the trade. After I pulled out computer print outs and explained my background, the trade allowance went up to $5,500. It took me all of five minutes.
What's the longest amount of time your car should be in a shop?
Did they use any KY or was it dry!!!!LOL I work on cars all the time Baby, 2-3 Weeks. How much did you end up paying out all to gather? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!Rock on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Selling a car that needs a new clutch?
A clutch issue, along with any major drivetrain problems will have a big negative impact on the car's value. The Kelly Bluebook has the assumption that the vehicle is in good running order. Most front wheel drive cars require that the engine be pulled in order to change the clutch, and that is where a lot of the cost comes from to have it repaired. With the car being effectively undriveable, I would heavily doubt that you would be able to sell the car for $750. Depending on the area, you might be able to get more (or less). If you live in an area where there are still a lot of people that can do their own repairs, you might be able to get more money out of the car sale. If you live in an area where people are loathe to do their own mechanical work (like Connecticut), the car would be worth less. If the clutch is the only issue, I would rather try to either fix the car or sell it than to junk it, as the benefits are better (either a running car via fixing it or more money from the sale).
If your airbags deploy is the car considered totalled?
Often but not always. A vehicle is deemed to be a total loss if the cost to repair the damage to a vehicle exceeds the Actual Cash Value of the vehicle. Actual Cash Value of a vehicle is what that vehicle could have been sold for (by the owner) immediately prior to the damage being incurred. When an airbag deploys it tends to cause quite a bit of damage; the cladding that covered the airbag needs to be replaced, the airbag itself needs to be replaced, the airbag sensor needs to be replaced, often windows are damaged and often the vehicle interior also needs to be cleaned. Additionally, in order for an airbag to be deployed a vehicle normally needs to first suffer quite a bit of crush damage, meaning that there are likely a number of cladding and/or structural pieces that need to be replaced (bumper cover, bumper pads/bars, fenders, hoods, cowls, grills, radiators, A/C condensers, etc.). All of these things add up to expensive repairs, which increases the probability that the vehicle will be deemed a total loss; however, it is not always the case. If the vehicle in question is a brand new Bentley there is a good chance that the heavy front end damage and interior damage we would expect from a frontal impact resulting in airbag deployment may not exceed the value of the vehicle (heck, when both my airbags deployed after a front end collision my vehicle wasn't a total and it was a 3 year old SAAB). Now, if we had the same damage on a 2010 Honda Civic then it is very probable that the vehicle would be a total. I once declared a vehicle a total loss because it had been keyed from bumper to quarter panel, which would have cost $1,100 to repair... the vehicle was an old beater with an ACV of approximately $750. It all comes down to the verbiage in your automobile policy that states "we will pay the lessor of repair or Actual Cash Value..." if the repairs exceed the ACV then it's a total loss.
Would autonomous driving eliminate deer strikes?
Along with Chris Leinbach's answer, which I agree would reduce the number of deer strikes, the autonomous car can change its driving style to mitigate (in advance) the chance of a deer strike happening. Taking advantage of understanding how an agent works (e.g. the deer in this case) can mean that the autonomous vehicle could work to avoid situations that an accident could occur. This could be applied to any potential problem you could have in a car. For example, there is a reddit response from a truck driver about what to avoid when driving around trucks (LPT: Open letter to car drivers from a part-time truck driver). By using something like the rules laid out in the response the accidents caused by a truck/car interaction could be reduced. There is another possible issue that changing behavior could cause a different type of accident, but there are probably only so many times you drill down on that analysis until there are diminishing returns...Update after thinking about this a bit more:There may be times that a collision is unavoidable, but there are actions that the autonomous vehicle could take to reduce the damage to both the car and the deer. This could also mean that it focuses on the collision taking place between a certain place on the car and/or the deer. Taking it another step, there are other moral questions that spin out of this including whether the autonomous vehicle should consider the pain caused by such an action. For example, are there are options for survivability and if it is certain that the deer wouldn't survive whether it should change the impact to kill immmediately. Definitely beyond the scope of this discussion, but morality decisions 'inside the loop' for an autonomous vehicle is going to be a tricky topic going forward.
Why is a car considered 'totaled' if the airbags deploy?
A car will be considered "Totalled" if the cost to repair it exceeds the "Blue Book" value of the same car. I believe that is in average condition, but not sure if that takes into account mileage. If the repair cost exceeds the Blue Book value, you will be paid that value rather than the insurance company paying the higher sum to repair it. (I have heard this very, very many times on "People's Court", "Judge Judy" and similar shows for many places in the US and I believe it the same in Canada.The theory behind this is that you could buy a replacement vehicle that is the same as yours was at the time of the crash, but without the crash damage. So you'd be ahead in a sense because if you repaired your car, it would be a car that had been in an accident.The cost of replacing the airbags in a car might very well be greater than the value of the car that was in an accident, hence it is considered "Totalled" and written off rather than replacing the airbags... I think you can chose to repair the car... but you pay anything above the "Blue Book" value and you will have a car that had been in an accident. They also don't include sentimental value... like when you really love your car or have done a lot of restoration. (This latter point I am not sure on.)