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| Author | : Janet S. Wong |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : American poetry |
| ISBN | : 0689825315 |
Thirty-six poems look at various aspects of driving, including passing the written driver's test, being pulled over by a cop, and having an accident, and treat them as metaphors for life.
| Author | : Larry Webster |
| Publisher | : Motorbooks |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2019-06-11 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 0760363420 |
With glorious photography and sharp writing, Never Stop Driving presents the case for the mental and social benefits of driving and engaging with automobiles. It also shows you—from dreaming about a car to living with it—how to jump in and get the most from your machine. There’s never been a better time to go for a drive. As a nation, we are chronically overstressed, overworked, and not sleeping enough. Worse yet, our digital devices are taking ever increasing chunks of what remaining free time we do have. Activities that force us to engage with ourselves and the environment around us are needed more than ever. Might I suggest a spin in a four-wheeled escape pod? The car—the act of driving, repairing, maintaining—drives out distraction and demands we be “present.” Making the car a pursuit invites not just the freedom of the road, but the potential to connect with thousands of like-minded individuals as well as the pleasure of simply caring for the machine. Further, there’s the thrill of commanding an object that represents a high point of human ingenuity and design. Cars invite passion. The first step is embracing the itch and acting on it. Learn how to choose your perfect weekend car, hunt for it, and make the deal. Then, find peace in the wrenches with tips on taking the plunge into maintaining your ride, including how your car can be an opportunity to tear your kids away from their screens and strengthen your bond with them. Next, explore the joy of driving, from scenic byways to taking your car to its performance limit. You’ll also tour the various highlights of the driving life, like how to become an automotive archaeologist, the possibilities for those short on cash but high for adventure, the car as a social gathering point, and what the future with autonomous cars means for those who love to drive. Never Stop Driving shines some light on why we find these machines so captivating, offering some inspiration and validation, and finally inviting those who are curious but haven’t made the leap to get in the car. Let’s roll.
| Author | : K.T. Berger |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2011-07-13 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0307801691 |
Zen Driving can make each driving experience enjoyable, whether it’s a daily hour-long drive to work, or a ten-minute run to the local Safeway. You may well ask, what is Zen driving? The Japanese word zen literally means meditation, and meditation means being fully aware, fully in touch with your surroundings. When you are in a meditative state, you are in your natural self, your Buddha self—and you can do it while driving. But why Zen driving? The purpose of Zen Driving, the book, is to introduce you to your natural self, which is what remains when you still your mind and ignore your chattering ego. When you do this, you gain confidence in your ability, and finally you are that ability. The frustrations of other drivers cutting you off or causing you to sit through two red lights because they’re too timid to make a left turn on yellow will no longer make your blood pressure explode. Zen Driving will teach you to look, simply observe without qualification, and then make your move. Zen driving is effortless, spontaneous, nondeliberate. It is being one with the road. And in turn, driving becomes a pathway to consciousness, an activity that clears the mind and soothes the soul, something to take with you all those other times when you’re not behind the wheel.
| Author | : Samuel I Schwartz |
| Publisher | : PublicAffairs |
| Total Pages | : 266 |
| Release | : 2018-11-20 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1541724046 |
The country's leading transport expert describes how the driverless vehicle revolution will transform highways, cities, workplaces and laws not just here, but across the globe. Our time at the wheel is done. Driving will become illegal, as human drivers will be demonstrably more dangerous than cars that pilot themselves. Is this an impossible future, or a revolution just around the corner? Sam Schwartz, America's most celebrated transportation guru, describes in this book the revolution in self-driving cars. The ramifications will be dramatic, and the transition will be far from seamless. It will overturn the job market for the one in seven Americans who work in the trucking industry. It will cause us to grapple with new ethical dilemmas-if a car will hit a person or a building, endangering the lives of its passengers, who will decide what it does? It will further erode our privacy, since the vehicle can relay our location at any moment. And, like every other computer-controlled device, it can be vulnerable to hacking. Right now, every major car maker here and abroad is working on bringing autonomous vehicles to consumers. The fleets are getting ready to roll and nothing will ever be the same, and this book shows us what the future has in store.
| Author | : Katherine J. Parkin |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2017-09-26 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0812249534 |
Women at the Wheel explores women's historical experience with automobiles. Katherine Parkin argues that in every regard, from learning to drive to repairing cars, from being a passenger to taking the wheel, women had a distinct experience with cars in American culture.
| Author | : Kenneth Lindquist |
| Publisher | : Fresh Ink Group |
| Total Pages | : 124 |
| Release | : 2022-12-14 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1947893645 |
Learn to teach fundamental driving in a logical sequence. Instill confidence in new drivers while helping them practice their skills in a safe setting before they need them on the road. You will practice diagnosing and analyzing driving errors—especially steering errors—so you can explain and correct them before they become dangerous habits. Driving Academy founder Kenneth Lindquist includes a wide variety of tips, such as how to avoid hugging the center line and to take proper seat-belt use seriously. This Parents’ Edition of How to Teach Driving is better than just handing your beginners a confusing manual because you will be helping them translate two-dimensional concepts into three-dimensional skills. Be the best at helping new drivers learn road safety. This book is the place to start.
| Author | : Karin Bijsterveld |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 249 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0199925690 |
This book traces the full history of noise in and around cars, shows how we created auditory privacy in our cars, even though they were highly noisy things at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is about the sounds of car engines, tires, wipers, blinkers, warning signals, in-car audio systems and, ultimately, about how we became used to listen while driving.
| Author | : Robert Puyal |
| Publisher | : Flammarion |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Automobile driving |
| ISBN | : 9782080301543 |
Introducing legendary stars of the thrilling world of the automobile. In Behind the Wheel, Robert Puyal presents eighty idols of the automobile world, including pioneers of the automotive industry, champion racing drivers, superstar car aficionados, and celebrated fictional characters. Among the inspirational figures featured is Henry Ford, who, overcoming his illiteracy, broke the land speed record with a machine of his own design. He went on to make the joys of driving available to the widest possible public with his innovative, mass-produced Ford Model T. From a similarly modest background, Juan Manuel Fangio started out as a mechanic in a small village in Argentina, competing in perilous amateur road races before his talent was finally discovered. Sent to Europe on a government grant, he won five Formula One world championships, becoming arguably the greatest driver in the history of the sport. Steve McQueen and Paul Newman are among the many Hollywood stars to have been bitten by the racing bug; when James Dean met his death behind the wheel of his Porsche 550 RS nicknamed "Little Bastard," a legend was born. Meanwhile, cars themselves have also played starring roles onscreen: 007's trademark Aston Martins have endured continual destruction in the James Bond films over the years, only to become enduring big screen icons in their own right. High-speed thrills have always attracted a cast of characters as diverse as it is devoted, and this book is a classic tribute.
| Author | : Kenneth Lindquist |
| Publisher | : Fresh Ink Group |
| Total Pages | : 125 |
| Release | : 2022-11-23 |
| Genre | : Transportation |
| ISBN | : 1947893475 |
Learn to teach fundamental driving in a logical sequence. Instill confidence in your students while helping them practice their skills in a safe setting before they need them on the road. You will practice diagnosing and analyzing driving errors—especially steering errors—so you can explain and correct them before they become dangerous habits. Driving Academy founder Kenneth Lindquist includes a wide variety of tips, such as how to avoid hugging the center line and to take proper seat-belt use seriously. This Instructors’ Edition of How to Teach Driving is the perfect partner to written guides because it translates the classroom’s two-dimensional concepts into three-dimensional skills. Whether your region requires driving-instructor training and certification, or you simply want to be the best at helping new drivers learn road safety, this book is the place to start.
| Author | : Jayawati Shrivastava |
| Publisher | : Zubaan |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2017-03-29 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9385932322 |
In 2008, when the Azad Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi, began training women to become drivers of commercial and private vehicles, most people thought they were somewhat out of touch with reality. Poor, illiterate women, many of them from violent homes, some of them single mothers, others from families and communities which had never allowed women to step out of the home - how could these women take the wheel, drive around in unsafe cities, be confident and competent, earn money? At the time, there was only one known woman auto driver in Delhi. When Azad turned to radio cab companies to suggest they take in women drivers, there wasn't much interest. Today, more than 300 women drivers have received training from Azad and are on the roads of several cities. Nine years after radio companies turned Azad away, special services for women with women drivers are being introduced within these same companies. In 2015, the Delhi Transport Corporation got its first woman driver, and in 2016, the Delhi Commission for Women recruited 25 women drivers to be part of their women's helpline. Clearly, things are changing. Lady Driver maps the journeys of twelve women from poor, marginalized communities who have transformed their lives by taking up the challenge of becoming women drivers. Each story is unique; there's no Cinderella effect here. Reality does not change overnight. Instead, as the women featured here painstakingly claim a relationship with the road, it translates into claims for identity, for dignity, for a livelihood. Their stories are of beginnings, but have no endings; for our lady drivers, there are many roads still to travel.
