Used Safety Vehicle for Winter Holidays Hot Deals!

Today is such a busy day yet I still have time to write something. My boss asks me to plan for rear underrun survey on multiple types of heavy vehicles on the road. I got this headache just to think about man power (enumerator) to do all thing things. Another issue is to rent good car for transportation. I remembered during my old day at Minnesota, it was so easy to rent a car or even buying used car. I didn’t say new car because the new car’s price is way too expensive for me as a student afford to buy. So used car is the only option for means of transportation for doing groceries, shopping and travelling.

At that time, I didn’t think much of safety. I just bought whatever deal that suit me best. If I ever could turn back time, I would love to buy used 4WD. Not only the vehicle is looking tough, it also providing optimum safety features to the occupants. One place to buy that kind of safety car is at Preowned cars Wilmington NC. The shop will offer you such a great deals, especially during this winter break. You know, if you want travel during this time, you need such reliable and safety car. So the choice is yours. Happy holidays!

Don't Park Your Car Near Fire Hydrant

1. This is what's going to happen to you in California the next time you park by the fire hydrant and a fire breaks out!

2. As we all know, recently the fire again breaking out in California and sweeping a large of housing areas. The wild nature fire is indeed unbeatable. Thus, you have to park your car accordingly as this thing might be happening to you. There is always a reason on why authority asked you not to park your car near fire hydrant :D

Benefits of Online Degree

Last 3 weeks I met Prof Dato’ Ir Radin Umar Radin, who is currently a Director General of Malaysian High Education Ministry (KPT) at MIROS Bowling Tournament. He told me that actually Malaysia’s level of high education is not that bad. Our famous universities like UM, UPM, USM have ranking of top 200 in the best international universities rank. Why he said not bad because there are 300,000 universities and colleges, even online degree colleges worldwide submit on that infamous rank and position 200/300,000 is indeed something that needs to be proud off.

Plus, something you need to know is the rank is basically surveyed based on perception. So it’s kind of bias in the first place. So now you can be proud of your country. Something that I forget to ask him is about the integrity of online degree that I believe everybody has seen the ads at many places, especially on the internet. In the verge of economy collapse in many countries, the one area that has very least affected is online business. This implies that there is definitely a vast job opportunities and earning potentials on the area which significantly need of online degree.

Many of us didn’t have much time as we are working during the days, so implicitly defines our impossibility on furthering our study for better education. One thing I notice is online degree really has flexible time schedule and really works well on people who want to further study but don’t have much time. You can also use this DegreeHound’s School Search Wizard to find the right school which work best with your interest. Maybe later I’ll ask Prof Radin about this matter. Till then, I’ll update you guys more.

How Airbags Work?

1. For years, the trusty seat belt provided the sole form of passive restraint in our cars. There were debates about their safety, especially relating to children, but over time, much of the country adopted mandatory seat-belt laws. Statistics have shown that the use of seatbelts has saved thousands of lives that might have been lost in collisions.

2. How about an airbags? What an airbag wants to do is to slow the passenger's speed to zero with little or no damage. The constraints that it has to work within are huge. The airbag has the space between the passenger and the steering wheel or dashboard and a fraction of a second to work with. Even that tiny amount of space and time is valuable, however, if the system can slow the passenger evenly rather than forcing an abrupt halt to his or her motion.

3. The goal of an airbag is to slow the passenger's forward motion as evenly as possible in a fraction of a second. There are three parts to an airbag that help to accomplish this feat:

4. The bag itself is made of a thin, nylon fabric, which is folded into the steering wheel or dashboard or, more recently, the seat or door.

5. The sensor is the device that tells the bag to inflate. Inflation happens when there is a collision force equal to running into a brick wall at 10 to 15 miles per hour (16 to 24 km per hour) or in other delta V. A mechanical switch is flipped when there is a mass shift that closes an electrical contact, telling the sensors that a crash has occurred. The sensors receive information from an accelerometer built into a microchip.

6. The airbag's inflation system reacts sodium azide (NaN3) with potassium nitrate (KNO3) to produce nitrogen gas. Hot blasts of the nitrogen inflate the airbag.

7. So this is basic idea you need to know. I'll post more about airbag, the consequence of airbag during the crash.

Safety Plumbing Thought

My friend who just recently went to United States for training has a little Dallas Plumbing problem a month ago. He told me that the snowbird upstairs his room had returned from her real home and decided to wash her dishes. The water emptied into his closet and this really pissing him off.

She just acted like nothing happening, so he called Dallas Plumber which is a local company that runs a lot of advertising. They came over and determined the old drain pipe in his ceiling is cracked. They fixed it charged him quite a good deal. But he said he doesn't want to pay since he just rent the room. It is the landlord responsibility to pay the bills. Yeah, that's making sense to me. The landlord later with reluctancy paid the bill.

I told my friend that money can't buy health. Safety is important that prevention is better than cure. So, why bothered spending some money on your safety. If we think deeper, the cost of medical treatment is helluva more expensive than the cost you spend to prevent it. So safety is important and don't stingy to spend on preventing injury occurance.

New Proton MPV Tester Spotted at Putra Height

1. Reader from Paultan blog has spotted and take a shacky video on Proton MPV tester at Putra Heights last week, and it seems that the MPV has been sighted in the area quite frequently for 3 consecutive days.

2. He also claims the MPV was quite fast to accelerate way from his Proton Waja 1.6, despite having about 3-4 occupants in it. The video is quite shaky at first but later there is a close-up, including a shot of the Proton MPV travelling next to what appears to be a red Perodua Kelisa towards the end.

3. At first glace, looks like a morgue wagon (I dunno to translate kereta mayat haha), later we would say "oh thats MPV". Not too bad eh. For more about Proton's posts, go HERE.

Rear Seatbelts Would Have Saved 2,200 From Injury

KUALA LUMPUR: Of the 6,282 road accidents last year, more than 2,200 rear-seat passengers would not have died or sustained injuries if they had worn seat belts. Road Safety Department director-general Datuk Suret Singh said 360 fatalities last year were the result of rear-seat passengers not buckling up, while 700 more people suffered serious injury because of the same reason.

“We take it seriously if people have not buckled up in all seats in the vehicles,” he said before launching a road safety campaign together with Toyota Motors at the Sungei Besi toll plaza here yesterday.

The rear-seat-belt ruling will be enforced from Jan 1. From Dec 16, the police and the Road Transport Department will carry out an exercise to educate and remind drivers and passengers of the ruling. Mock summonses would also be issued during this exercise. Suret and UMW executive director (strategic marketing group) Aminar Rashid Salleh later presented motorists at the toll plaza with Toyota’s road safety seat headrest bands, which carry a message for rear-seat passengers to buckle up.

1. Got this from TheStar Online today. Interesting title where rear seatbelts could saved 2200 from injury. I wonder where the number is coming from. As far as I know, the police data collection form didnt have anything column/place to fill on related to wearing seatbelt. Maybe the number coming from hospital database but I still have doubt on it.

2. Lots need to be done as currently Malaysia used its own Malaysian Standards (MS) to code for different type of seatbelt which is quite different compared to most country code. So its kinda difficult for researchers to identify whether our Malaysian seatbelts are really up to international standard or not.

3. One thing I notice during my crashed car inspection is Toyota Fortuner's driver seatbelt code is Ar4m (very basic) only. Most of Europe cars/passenger vehicles have at least code of Aer4mp (has more safety features) for driver's seatbelt. They have Ar4m for only rear passenger, but still very rare to be found as normally for rear passenger their standard is Aer4m. So what this supposed to mean? Think about it. Our driver seatbelt is the same with rear passengers at Europe. So meaning our rear passenger seatbelt is the same with what in the Europe????. Think.