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The ultimate highway sports car experience
FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4039688LEAD IN: A Canadian tour company has taken people's love of fast cars to the ultimate level in sports adventures. Car fanatics get the chance to buckle up for a drive along a highway with...
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The ultimate highway sports car experience
LEAD IN: A Canadian tour company has taken people's love of fast cars to the ultimate level in sports adventures. Car fanatics get the chance to buckle up for a drive along a highway with hairpin turns, steep cliffs, and dizzying heights...
Bloomberg
How Amsterdam Became a Heaven For Cyclists
Oct.25 -- The Dutch capital Amsterdam is widely known for being bike-friendly. But it wasn’t always a model cycling city. Public outrage at rising traffic casualties in the Seventies caused city planners to rethink their approach to...
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USA: NATIONAL 55 MILES AN HOUR SPEED LIMIT ABOLISHED
English/Nat
The national 55 mile an hour speed limit has been abolished in the United States.
Now each state can set its own limit, and one, Montana, has done away with legal top speeds altogether.
Americans woke up to the first major...
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Mimes make silent mockery of those who flout traffic laws
1. Wide of mime artist on street, directing the traffic, as part of a road safety campaign
2. Mid of mime directing traffic
3. Wide of female mime artist asking a motorcyclist to adjust his helmet with signs
4. Mime send kisses to the...
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Onboard car electronic sales expected to soar
Los Angeles - June 3, 2008:
1. Wide of cars in traffic
2. Wide of woman in car
3. Close up of hand working navigation system
4. Medium shot of cars in traffic
5. Wide shot of cars in traffic
6. Close up of navigation system screen...
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USA: SPEED LIMITS ON NATIONAL HIGHWAYS TO BE SCRAPPED
English/Nat
Lawmakers in the U.S. Congress are set today to strip away the maximum speed limit for national highways.
Some in Congress say the speed limit - and other highway safety laws now on the books - should be left for states to...
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The world's latest gadgets unveiled at Las Vegas tech show
The world's first connected toothbrush and your own drone to own, two of the latest gadgets going on show at the world's largest consumer electronics show being held in Las Vegas this week.
The annual technology event has more than 3,200...
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Transportation dept. to relax rules on truckers
The Transportation Department is poised to relax the federal rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers can be behind the wheel.
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India - Red Cross report on road deaths
The International Red Cross said on Wednesday (24/6) that road accidents worldwide by the year 2020 will kill or disable more people than respiratory infections, HIV-AIDS and tuberculosis. The report was released in New Delhi, where...
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A defiant Takata Corp. told U.S. lawmakers what it has said to NHSTA; the government's demand for a nationwide air bag recall isn't supported by evidence. The safety agency thinks Takata's driver air bag inflators are defective. (Dec. 3)
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A defiant Takata Corp. has told a U.S. safety agency that its demand for a nationwide air bag recall isn't supported by evidence. Wednesday, one of the company's top executives delivered...
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The Ebola outbreak is putting stress on first responders in Liberia. Ambulance drivers say they are struggling with chronic shortages of safety equipment and patients who don't want to go to the hospital. (Oct. 1)
SOUNDBITE: (English) Gordon Kamara, "Response 2" Ambulance Crew Chief:
"I have about fifteen cases now, more than fifteen cases (to collect). They (his office) are still calling to get me more listings of cases, but I don't have the...
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USA: 8 MILLION CARS TO BE RECALLED BECAUSE OF SUSPECT SEAT BELTS
English/Nat
The US Transportation Department plans to recall over eight (m) million cars because of suspect Japanese-made seat belts, the largest such recall ever.
In all, eleven car makes fitted with seat belts made by Takata...
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Technology may help cut off talking and texting that happens as people fly down the highway, safety advocates say. But stopping the talk may also take legislation and help from high-profile people, say those at a forum in Washington.
HEADLINE: Shutting down driving distraction: the phone
CAPTION: Technology may help cut off talking and texting that happens as people fly down the highway, safety advocates say. But stopping the talk may also take legislation and help...
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Smart car technology keep drivers safer
AP Television
Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan - 12 November 2012
1. Wide of test car approaching
2. Close up of dashboard showing a warning sign reading (in Japanese) "brakes", AUDIO : beeping sound
3. Various of car approaching fake...
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Text messaging service to improve the safety of hitchhikers
AP Television News
Coromandel, North Island
1. Wide shot hills and Coromandel Ranges in background
2. Closer shot hills
3. Wide pan from road to Dutch hitchhikers next to road
4. Mid shot Dutch hitchhikers
5. Close up male hitchhiker
6....
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Drivers of vehicles on NATO supply line express fears over safety
Thousands of trucks carrying NATO supplies were waiting in lines to leave Karachi on Friday, a day after the transit ban was lifted.
Lifting of the ban came following a painful chapter in US-Pakistan relations that saw the border closed...
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New law targets drivers using mobile phones
RESTRICTIONS: TECHNOLOGY CLIENTS ONLY / PART NO ACCESS UK, RTE, CNN International.
1. Various of cars
2. Close of car Windscreen being wiped
3. Mid of Man drives past with cigarette in hand
4. Wide of cars Cars drive
5. Wide of blue...
Museum of Science
Ei E: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 2
Students think like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [10:01]