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There are auto covers that fit well with one auto model. There are also some that do not. The question now is this how does one find the right cover for his auto? There are a lot of effects one should consider when he's looking for a cover that would fit well with the type of auto he owns. 

Then are some of the effects to consider when one is searching for the befitting auto cover that could cover his auto well indeed through extreme rainfall conditions of every kind.

            

1. Consider or take note of the model of the vehicle you enjoy. Looking for auto covers that fit well with your auto can be easier if you know its model well. There are some covers that are acclimatized to fit a specific model of a auto. 

You should look into the markers of these covers for buses that come in sets when you're searching for the perfect one to cover your vehicle with. It shouldn't be that delicate to find the befitting cover when you're looking through a lot of them in stores that vend auto accessories of every kind. 

You should also check online for sets of covers if you find it delicate to find one that could fit your auto in the specialty stores for varied auto accessories. 

2. Be familiar with your auto's confines. It shouldn't be delicate to find a good, befitting cover for a auto if you know your auto's confines. It does not count if the confines of your vehicle that you know of is an estimate or exact. 

However, you can actually find a auto cover for it that you can ask to have customized by the store you're buying it from, If you're familiar with this. There are some stores that offer services on the customization of covers for buses. They indeed vend accessories for covers of buses along with the covers themselves.   

 I've worked on a number of pieces that are relevant to automated/autonomous vehicle (AV) regulations lately. Here is a resource page to organize the material all in one place.

• Round table discussion on AV ethics, safety, and trust (good starting point for orientation to issues; should be no paywall despite being IEEE)
• Smerconish general audience piece on issues with AV industry public road testing (both Tesla and rest of industry)
• AV industry and trust
• SSRN Autonomous Vehicle Regulation and Trust (detailed scholarly publication preprint for legal journal).  Several topics in this paper appear in shorter versions elsewhere on this list
• Autonomous Vehicle Myths: The Dirty Dozen  {AV policy myths, disinformation campaign}
• EE Times short version 
• Longer, more detailed version 
• Letter sent to Washington State rebutting the type of disinformation that is being circulated by AV industry groups in this case about the UL 4600 standard
• General regulatory playbook for state & municipal DOT/DMV organizations
• Regulatory playbook 
• Why disengagements are the wrong metric.  
• Tesla FSD issues
• Tesla FSD is functionally a Level 4 test bed (short version)
• Why Tesla FSD should be treated as a Level 4 test deployment by regulators (long version)
• J3016 information
• What it would take to make Level 2 & Level 3 systems safe beyond J3016 
• Proposal for regulating AV testing that addresses the Level 2 loophole
• SAE J3016 User Guide. (Important: J3016 is not and never has been a safety standard.)
• An alternative to J3016 levels for communicating to drivers
• Ethics, safety & trust for AVs:
• Lessons learned from the Tempe/Uber testing fatality
• Ethical issues that matter (hint: not the trolley problem)
• Safety case for public road testing
• Software safety for vehicle automation short course (part of a grad course I teach at Carnegie Mellon University)
• More general coverage podcasts:
• AV safety metrics podcast series
• Autonocast: AV safety engineering
• No Parking Podcast: building trust & reliability in autonomous vehicles. (Older material from 2019)

Many people take for granted all the days that their car gets them from one location to the another location as their desired destination safely. The wear of your vehicle tires will never really enters your mind until it's too late when some maintenance occurs and you find yourself on the side of the road changing a flat. 

Even if you don't have to change your tires because of a flat, you must check them periodically for signs of damage and excessive wear.

Your vehicle's tires are among the most important safety features of you car. The way your car drives and handles depends upon the state of your wheels and tires. 

If you must purchase new tires and have them installed on your car because of damage or wear, you will need to know the specifications that your vehicle requires for maximum safety and fuel efficiency.

Car tires are generally ranked by a list of their technical qualities and characteristics. The speed rating of a tire can tell you the highest speeds for which the tire is certified to travel with absolute reliability and safety. 

In most cases, you'll never travel at a tire's maximum speed rating, but it is important to know these numbers - especially if you purchase high-performance tires. Tires rated for speeds in excess of 149 miles per hour are made out of a different formula of rubber and will not provide a comfortable ride for normal, everyday driving. 

Even at interstate speeds of 65 or 70 mph, tires rated for higher speeds will provide a smooth ride. In addition, these high-performance tires are not built for sustainability and will not last as long as a normal consumer-grade tire.

Taken into considerations the tire's performance in extreme weather conditions. Tires that are rated to perform excellently in wet conditions should be considered, especially if you live in a rainy climate. 

Tires can have treads that push water away itself at is drives through, making it safer for you to travel in wet conditions and brining the possibility of your vehicle hydroplaning down. Tires with treads built for travel in snowy conditions should also be considered if you do a majority of your driving in a colder climate.

Depending on the type of car you drive, you may want to consider tires that are built for comfort. These tires are designed to provide a very small amount of running noise and low resistance to being driven. Many luxury vehicles uses the comfort tire for the speciality of that tires is that its a quiet and smooth ride. 

Tires that have a lower profile than traditional tires will be less comfortable, but look great and will provide slightly better handling.

Next time you're in the market for a new set of car tires, choose the ones that not only look stylish, but also have the proper treads for your normal driving conditions. Choose the right tires for your vehicle to increase your safety and provide the highest driving efficiency.

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Summary 

Regulatory oversight of automated vehicle operation on public roads is being gamed by the vehicle automation industry via two approaches: (1) promoting SAE J3016, which is explicitly not a safety standard, as the basis for safety regulation, and (2) using the "Level 2 loophole" to deploy autonomous test platforms while evading regulatory oversight. Regulators are coming to understand they need to do something to reign in the reckless driving and other safety issues that are putting their constituents at risk. We propose a regulatory approach to deal with this situation that involves a clear distinction between production "cruise control" style automation that can be subject to conventional regulatory oversight vs. test platforms that should be regulated via SAE J3018 use for testing operational safety.

Do not use SAE J3016 in regulations

The SAE J3016 standards document has been promoted by the automotive industry for use in regulations, and in fact is the basis for regulations and policies at the US federal, state, and municipal levels. However, it is fundamentally unsuitable for the job. The issues with using SAE J3016 for regulations are many, so we provide a brief summary. (More detail can be found in Section V.A of our SSRN paper.)

SAE J3016 contains two different types of information. The first is a definition of terminology for automated vehicles, which is not really the problem, and in general could be suitable for regulatory use. The second is a definition of the infamous SAE Levels, which are highly problematic for at least the following reasons:

• The defined levels are arbitrarily selected, and do not fit vehicles being actually produced that well. (If they did, you would not see companies advertising "Level 2+" when fractional levels are forbidden by J3016.)
• The defined levels have lower but not upper bounds on capabilities, making it straightforward to game levels to avoid regulations if desired by leaving small intentional holes in capabilities (in essence, a notional Level 2.99 might be used as Level 3 or 4 in practice by a customer, but not regulated because it rounds down to Level 2.)
• Vehicles designed to implement Levels 2 and 3 -- and no more -- can be expected to be unsafe in practice, for example due to lack of mandatory driver monitoring.
• Levels are set by manufacturers according to "design intent," meaning that a manufacturer can attempt to game regulations simply via disingenuous declarations of intent.
• Overall, the structure and details of J3016 are vague and subjective, degrading regulatory certainty.

In practice, one of two big issues is the "Level 2 Loophole" in which a company might claim that the fact there is a safety driver makes its system Level 2, while insisting it does not intend to ever release that same automated driving feature as a higher level feature. This could be readily gamed by, for example, saying that Feature X, which is in fact a prototype fully automated driving system, is Level 2 at first. When the company feels that the prototype is fully mature, it could simply rebrand it Feature Y, slap on a Level 4 designation, and proceed to sell that feature without ever having applied for a Level 4 testing permit. We argue that this is essentially what Tesla is doing with its FSD "beta" program that has, among other things, yielded numerous social media videos of reckless driving despite claims that its elite "beta test" drivers are selected to be safe (e.g., failure to stop at stop signs, failure to stop at red traffic signals, driving in opposing direction traffic lanes).

The second big practical issue is that J3016 is not intended to be a safety standard, but is being used as such in regulations. This is making regulations more complex than they need to be, stretching the limits of the esoteric technical expertise in AVs required of regulatory agencies, especially for municipalities. This is combined with the AV industry promoting a series of myths as part of a campaign to deter regulator effectiveness at protecting constituents from potential safety issues. The net result is that most regulations do not actually address the core safety issues related to on-road testing of this immature technology, in large part because they aren't really sure how to do that.

For road testing safety purposes, regulators should focus on both the operational concept and technology maturity of the vehicle being operated rather than on what might eventually be built as a product. In other words "design intent" isn't relevant to the risk being presented to road users when a test vehicle veers into opposing traffic. Avoiding crashes is the goal, not parsing overly-complex engineering taxonomies.

Four Regulatory Categories

We propose four regulatory categories, with details to follow:

• Non-automated vehicles: These are vehicles that DO NOT control steering on a sustained basis in any operational mode. They might have adaptive speed control, automatic emergency braking, and active safety features that temporarily control steering (e.g., an emergency swerve around obstacles capability, or bumping the steering wheel at lane boundaries to alert the driver).
  

• Low automation vehicles: These are vehicles with automation that CAN control steering on a sustained basis (and, in practice, also vehicle speed). They are vehicles that ordinary drivers can operate safely and intuitively along the lines of a "cruise control" system that performs lane keeping in addition to speed control. In particular, they have these characteristics:
• Can be driven with acceptable safety by an ordinary licensed driver with no special training beyond that required for a non-automated version of the same vehicle type.
• Includes an effective driver monitoring system (DMS) to ensure adequate driver alertness despite inevitable automation complacency
• Deters reasonably foreseeable misuse and abuse, especially with regard to DMS and its operational design domain (ODD)
• Safety-relevant behavioral inadequacies consist of omissive behaviors rather than actively dangerous behavior
• Safety-relevant issues are both intuitively understood and readily mitigated by driver intervention with conventional vehicle controls (steering wheel, brake pedal)
• Automation is not capable of executing turns at intersections.
• Field data monitoring indicates that vehicles remain at least as safe as non-automated vehicles that incorporate comparable active safety features over the vehicle life.

• Highly automated vehicles: These are vehicles in which a human driver has no responsibility for safe driving. If any person inside the vehicle (or a tele-operator) can be blamed for a driving mishap, it is not a highly automated vehicle. Put simply, it's safe for anyone to go to sleep in these vehicles (including no requirement for a continuous remote safety driver) when in automated operation.

• Automation test platforms: These are vehicles that have automated steering capability and have a person responsible for driving safety, but do meet one or more of the listed requirements for low automation vehicles. In practical terms, such vehicles tend to be test platforms for capabilities that might someday be highly automated vehicles, but require a human test driver -- either in vehicle or remote -- for operational safety.

Low automation vehicles

Highly automated vehicles

These are highly automated vehicles for which the driver is not responsible for safety, generally corresponding to SAE Levels 4 and 5.  (As a practical matter, some vehicles that are advertised as Level 3 will end up in this category in practice if they do not hold the driver accountable for crashes when automation is engaged.)

Highly automated vehicles should be regulated by requiring conformance to industry safety standards such as ISO 26262, ISO 21448, and ANSI/UL 4600. This is an approach NHTSA has already proposed, so we recommend states and municipalities simply track that topic for the time being. 

There is a separate issue of how to regulate vehicle testing of these vehicles without a safety driver, but that issue is beyond the scope of this essay. 

Automation test platforms

These are vehicles that need skilled test drivers or remote safety monitoring to operate safely on public roads.  Operation of such vehicles should be done in accordance with SAE J3018, which covers safety driver skills and operational safety procedures, and should also be done under the oversight of a suitable Safety Management System (SMS) such as one based on the AVSC SMS guidelines.

Crashes while automation is turned on are generally attributed to a failure of the safety driver to cope with dangerous vehicle behavior, with dangerous behavior being an expectation for any test platform. (The point of a test platform is to see if there are any defects, which means defects must be expected to manifest during testing.)

In other words, with an automation test platform, safety responsibility primarily rests with the safety driver and test support team, not the automation. Test organizations should convince regulators that testing will overall present an acceptably low risk to other road users. Among other things, this will require that safety drivers be specifically trained to handle the risks of testing, which differ significantly from the risks of normal driving. For example, use of retail car customers who have had no special training per the requirements of SAE J3018 and who are conducting testing without the benefit of an appropriate SMS framework should be considered unreasonably risky.

This category covers all vehicles currently said to be Level 4/5 test vehicles, and also any other Level 2 or Level 3 vehicles that make demands on driver attention and reaction capabilities that are excessive for drivers without special tester training.

Regulating automated test platforms should concentrate on driver safety, per my State/Municipal DOT regulatory playbook. This includes specifically requiring compliance with practices in SAE J3018 and having an SMS that is at least as strong as the one discussed in the AVSC SMS guidelines.

Wrap-up

Automated vehicles regulatory data reporting at the municipal and state levels should concentrate on collecting mishap data to ensure that the driver+vehicle combination is acceptably safe. A high rate of crashes indicates that either the drivers aren't trained well enough, or the vehicle is defective. Which way you look at it depends on whether you're a state/municipal government or the US government, and whether the vehicle is a test platform or not. But the reality is that if drivers have trouble driving the vehicles, you need to do something to fix that situation before there is a severe injury or fatality on your watch.

Removing a 4 wheel All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) tire from the wheel could be a troublesome test. Notice this large number of fundamental stages, utilizes the right hardware and much of the time a novice can find ways of supplanting a tire effortlessly. 

The principal thing ought to be to eliminate the haggle from the center and rests your wheel on to the floor with the outside of the wheel looking up. Start with removing the valve core to let the air out of the tire and begin to undo the wheel locks.

After that, stand the wheel up-right. Take advantage of the flat side of your tire iron to help thrust the rim locks down for you to bust them free from the tire bead. When the rim locks appear to have been busted from the tire bead, lie down the wheel down flat.

To remove the tire from the wheel, the beads should be busted free from your bead. Smashing the beads can be hard. Utilize water and soap close to the tire and rim to help undo the beads. Climb onto the tire sidewalls and use your feet to split the beads loose from your wheel.

Soon after breaking the bead on one edge, put the tire iron between the bead and wheel. Start on one piece of the valve stem next work your direction to the tire in brief time frame periods. At once the first side of the tire is slowly removed from the rim of the wheel then push the valve stem into the rim and move the tube fully taken out.

On wheels with rim locks be certain you take them out preceding getting the whole course of taking going the subsequent beads. Eliminate the second bead by simply putting the tire iron underneath the bead on the complete opposite side of the wheel. Use the tire iron to lever the tire bead over the rim and push it off.

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Last but not least, make sure to fully clean up the bead area around the rim. Check the rim locks and wheel for almost any deterioration. After a little energy and some tools, an All terrain vehicle tire can be removed from your wheel without difficulty. 

The initial times of changing an ATV tire can be very difficult and even frustrating if you don't know about the exact process, but with some persistence and good luck you can master the skills needed in a short amount of time. The very next time a tire has to be changed keep these guidelines in mind always for the process of tire replacing achievement.

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New technology is being developed all the time across every industry, and this means stylish and better practices change regularly too.

When it comes to driving, keeping up to date with these changes is important, so you can insure you and your family stay safe on the road. Our companion will help you roll with the times!

We live in instigative times. But with rapid-fire changes in technology, ways of working, safety, and transport, it can be easy to feel like we're falling behind or failing to keep up with the advancements.

With our helpful companion below, you can explore five simple but effective ways to modernise your driving.

TIP 1: Be Safety Conscious

Ultramodern driving is largely safety conscious. People are more apprehensive than ever of how their choices on the road impact other motorists, so a great way to modernise your driving is by emphasising safety in a variety of ways.

Insure that your auto is safe and roadworthy with regular visits to the garage. Encounter up on your chops and knowledge through reading or indeed attending courses, and consider investing in the applicable safety technology. This might include warning lights and admonitions, or high visibility features similar as fog lights.

The future of driving is in icing that motorists, passengers, and other road druggies are as safe as possible. 

TIP 2: Go ‘Green’

The terrain is a hot content and a more burning issue than ever, particularly following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report of August 2021which stated that‘ mortal exertion is changing the climate in unknown and occasionally unrecoverable ways.’

Transport is a significant contributor to pollution and environmental detriment — especially options that use fossil energies or produce dangerous emigrations.

Further motorists than ever are keen to do their part and reduce any negative impact they may have on the terrain. Whether you can make a big change or only a small donation, every little helps!

Maybe you might consider switching to an electric auto, for illustration. Indeed motorists with long commutes are now concluding for the electric buses that offer a longer range. Alternately, you might use your auto only when necessary and choose other options when possible.

Whatever choice you make, do it with the terrain in mind and you'll be making a positive impact on the world. 

TIP 3: Be Energy Efficient

Indeed if it isn't possible for you to have an electric or cold-blooded vehicle, you can still modernise your driving by being energy effective. Indeed petrol and diesel druggies can drive in a way that wastes the least quantum of energy possible.

Choose the applicable gear, for illustration, reduce wind resistance, and anticipate the road ahead so that you don’t make unforeseen movements that bear a lot of energy. Also, keep your auto in good working order as this can contribute to better energy effectiveness overall.

You'll save plutocrat, increase the life of your auto, and drive in a completely ultramodern way too!

TIP 4: Be Prepared

Still, it's to anticipate the unanticipated! Thus, being a ultramodern motorist means being as prepared as possible for implicit dislocations, If recent times have tutored us anything.

One way to do this is to carry a tackle for all eventualities. This might mean a breakdown or repairs tackle — complete with tools and outfit, a spare tyre, and a mobile phone bowl, for illustration.

It could also be as simple as a tackle for hot rainfall (with water and hand suckers) or indeed hygiene (with masks, hand sanitiser and wipes). Using your auto safely during the outbreak of COVID-19, for illustration, needed motorists to use further aseptic practices than ahead.

So be as prepared as you can, pack effective accoutrements, and do your exploration by checking routes in advance.

TIP 5: Use Technology

Technology plays a large part in ultramodern driving, but it does n’t have to be precious or inviting. While some motorists choose to invest in all the rearmost tackle, you can elect technology that stylish suits your requirements and budget.

Still, for illustration, make sure that you have the stylish model you can go and that it's always in good working order, If you use Sat Nav regularly.

However, try to insure that you have the right tackle and technology that will help you manage with the particular circumstance — like for illustration, by taking safety lights with you during night drives in case your auto develops a fault and comes to a halt in the middle of the road, If you have a particular safety concern.

Overall also, as the below tips illustrate, ultramodern driving is substantially about prioritizing your comfort, safety Health Fitness Articles, and effectiveness while driving.

An accident happening on the road is a nuisance anyway, even if there are no injuries to the person and the damage of vehicle is minor. If the driver is driving his own car at the time of the accident, then he usually knows what to do at that conditions. 

But what if it happens an Accident with Car Hired by the other person? At that point, immediately, many questions arise:

• Who should be compensated for the damage of car?
• Whether the rental car company will claim compensation for the damage caused in the accident?
• What happens to the driver of the rental car if he is found liable to the incident? etc.

For the sake of clarity and insurance, it is worth to paying special attention to these issues when planning to take a rental car.

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What are the major things to look out for to avoid accidents with your rental car?

When maneuvering in traffic area or city area, don't depend on your extensive driving experience, attentiveness, and quick reactions while driving. 

After all, there are a lot of people on the road drive their vehicles and it's likely that some of them don't know the rules of the road or some of them think that the rules don't apply to them when they comes on the road with vehicle in hand and you should avoid to use mobile and text or any other things while driving so you can literally have an accident without any doubt all at once with a rental car.

Such type of accidents are difficult to control. However, each of the driver can increase the chances that the rental car will be returned to the owner in one piece.

First of all, the selected vehicle which is you want take on a rental basis should be inspected for defects. Employees of rental companies may be careless or inattentive in this respect due to that check all the things properly. The human factor must be taken into account for this reason.

Next thing, you need to sort out insurance issues related to the rental car which is you selected. This is not an extra precaution, but a guarantee will be given to that the driver will be protected by law in the event of an accident, even if a malfunction occurs. From a psychological point of view, taking out insurance for the vehicle gives the driver extra security on the road.

Important thing we need to keep in mind here that, car rental insurance should not be limited to the number of drivers.

No matter that how long you plan to take a rental car, whether it is for a single day or a longer period, you should absolutely take into account all the above points before taken a rental car. And only after clarifying this possible nuances can you conclude a car rental contract.

Procedure in the event of an accident

If the accident is already a fact, the first thing to do is to remember the instructions properly on how to proceed in your car rental contract at the time of  incident. These are very simple to implement:

1. At very first, the driver should make an emergency call.
2. Second thing, you should then contact the rental company.
3. Then, only the steps described in the Highway Code should be carried out for the accident location area.

Following that above sequence of actions in case of an accident is not as important here as following all the above points. If the algorithm is incomplete for the car insurance, then the insurance company may refuse to pay compensation for the incident. In this case, the tenant has to reimburse the landlord for the costs for the damage.

In addition to that, the hirer may have to pay the compensation of the accident on the rental car if:

• the person who is responsible for the damage due to accident cannot be identified (particularly important in the case of stolen vehicles or components);
• And second thing is that there are no traffic police documents to prove that the hirer was not involved in the accident of the vehicle.

Who usually pays for the damage of vehicle

In most of the cases, if the hirer intends to take a car on rental basis without a driver, he or she will have standard insurance cover for damage of any kind with the car which is taken on rental basis. 

It means that even if it is proved that you are at any fault, the insurance company will not reimburse you for the damage of the car. However, as mentioned above, you must follow the rules in this terms.

It is important to note that, insurance does not always cover actual damage. In this case, the tenant pays the difference.

Third-party insurance is also frequently included in the cost of renting a car as per rental services. This type of insurance protects renters or passengers who are involved in an accident against costs more reliably than owners who are in the same situation. 

In that case, the liability of the rented car is limited to the amount deposited at the time of taking a rental car in hands. The insurance will not intervene if the driver has committed some serious offences that lead to an accident happened.

Now, It is time to summarize. Even with a strong insurance policy, you should only take a rental car after you have inspected it carefully to make sure that the vehicle is in perfect condition. 

And in any case, except in cases of force majeure, obeying the traffic rules and being careful are the best ways to avoid a traffic accident or any damage to the car or person travelling inside the car.