New Cars in India- How the Industry Has Changed

The automobile industry in India is growing by leaps and bounds. Every year, car manufacturers launch new models of cars that are suitable for Indian roads. Most of the world’s leading car manufacturers have realized the business opportunities in India and have started setting up car manufacturing plants. The automobile industry in India has never seen so much business before.
Nowadays, the trend of buying one car and keeping it for long is slowly fading. People want the latest and sleekest cars that are both sporty and attractive. Gone are the days when a family would buy a car and keep it for as long as the car is running. Now everybody prefers to sell of their old cars before it starts giving them any problems.
The car industry is also growing at a steady pace, owing to the booming economy. People, especially in cities get handsome salaries which they very happily use to buy the best car they can afford. They even try and stretch beyond their paying capacity so that they could get the best car. For such people, having a sleek and stylish car is a matter of pride and passion. Cars are no longer used only for commuting. The new cars in India now come packed with loads of power that cater to the wild side of most people. People love to have fun with their cars and the new cars in India offer just that.
Cars with lots of power and luxury were unheard of about a decade ago. Back then most people used to drive cars like the Maruti 800 and the Zen. At that point of time, international players were just making an entry into the Indian markets.
After the entry of international players, the whole market completely changed. The economy was booming and youngsters were getting good salaries, so car manufacturers started targeting the younger generation and hence created more stylish and powerful cars. Nowadays, almost all the new cars in India come with good amount of power and excellent features. Such cars have really changed the whole automobile scenario in India.

Nascar Tickets – Jj Sets The Bar For 2010 Sprint Cup Season

Jimmie Johnson has become known in the racing realm as NASCAR’s Tiger Woods – minus Woods’ reputation for extracurricular activities, of course. Proving his dominance in stock car racing is absolutely no fluke, JJ came back strong in the second and third races of the Sprint Cup Series schedule in late February after a disappointing rear axle problem left him down and out of the Daytona 500 to kick off the 2010 season.

Posting back-to-back wins Feb. 21 at Fontana and Feb. 28 at Las Vegas, Johnson proved to be on top of his game as he cruised into Victory Lane, making No. 48 the car to track down once again this season in the Cup Series. Counting his win in Las Vegas, Johnson has collected 49 Sprint Cup wins in 294 career starts, helping to ink his name into the history books as he took his 15th career win at a 1.5-mile track, becoming the first driver to collect that many victories at those tracks in Cup Series history.

Johnson is racing this season to post his fifth straight Sprint Cup Series Chase for the Championship win, marking the era of No. 48 in the stock car racing circuit. His mesmerizingly perfect calculations on the track have helped to sell NASCAR tickets like crazy, and catching Jimmie Johnson in action is guaranteed to be a history-making endeavor.

With his two wins out of the first three starts in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, Jimmie Johnson has reclaimed his throne as the leading force in stock car racing once again this year. There’s no doubt No. 48 is a legend in the making, but he’s also had some luck to coast him through the start of this year’s racing season. At the Auto Club 500 in Fontana, Calif. on Feb. 21, a stroke of luck helped Johnson skirt Kevin Harvick for the big win. Johnson pitted late in the race with 26 laps to go just a split second before a late caution flag was thrown, allowing him to get in front of the pack on pit road and take the lead for the final 20 laps of the race.

After Johnson trumped Harvick’s monumental day at Fontana, Harvick told ESPN, “They’re really good, but they’re really, really lucky, too. Jimmie is a good friend of mine, but there’s no denying how lucky they are. They have a golden horseshoe stuck up their a**.”

Horseshoe or not, Jimmie Johnson proved the very next week he hasn’t won four Cup Series championships based on luck alone. His incredible win at Las Vegas on Feb. 28 solidified Jimmie Johnson as a legit contender, and he’ll continue being the top competitor of the Cup Series heading into the month of March. NASCAR’s Sprint Cup Series heads into Atlanta (March 7), Bristol (March 21) and Martinsville (March 28) to round out the month, and the stock car racing circuit has placed a target on Johnson’s No. 48 vehicle as drivers attempt to overhaul Jimmie Johnson and the Sprint Cup Series takes form.

Multi-Story Car Parking System – Solution for Parking Crunch in India

We are building roads to drive our vehicles like car or bike on it, but we do not have the enough space to park them. So metros are facing parking problems and peoples have park their vehicles anyplace. Delhi and other metros like Mumbai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Bangalore and Ahmedabad has millions of cars and two-wheelers on its road, but not enough parking spaces.
The required parking space has, on an average in the crowded market of metros in India, outstripped by 45%. It is not just a problem for a single city in India; all major cities in India facing the space crunch.
Parking space is fast becoming a major dilemma in other gigantic cities in India, which includes Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Pune, and other urban and semi urban cities.
Automatic multilevel parking systems are the solutions for the same issue. Delhi seems to have realized it. Municipal Corporation of Delhi have identified some areas for automatic parking systems and started getting tendering activities.
Automatic multi-storey car parking system provide lower building cost per parking slot, as they typically require less building volume and less ground area than a conventional facility with the same capacity. However, the cost of the mechanical equipment within the building that is needed to transport cars internally needs to be added to the lower building cost to determine the total costs. Other costs are usually lower too, for example there is no need for an energy-intensive ventilating system, since cars are not driven inside and human cashiers or security personnel may not be needed.

First, the good news about vehicle/train collisions at railroad crossings; the number of collisions at railroad crossings has declined from a high of 13,557 incidents in 1978 to 2,746 in 2007, a decline of 80%. Now the bad news; in 2007, there were still 2,746 incidents. Drivers are still not getting the word that trying to outrace a train at a railroad crossing is a lose/lose proposition. 94% of the collisions and 87% of the fatalities at railroad crossings are caused by risky driving behavior or poor judgment on the part of the driver. Look at the facts:

• A large vehicle such as a train appears to be moving slower than it actually is. The maximum speed for freight trains is 60 mph while passenger trains can travel up to 80 mph.
• Even at low speeds, the impact force of a train is tremendous. A single locomotive weighing 432,000 pounds traveling at 35 mph will impart a collision force on a car of 885,000 tons of force. In order for an average car to impart that kind of crash force it would have to be traveling more than 4,200 mph.
• Once the train’s engineer applies the brakes, the train will travel several hundred feet before air pressure is applied to the brakes on all the cars of a train and they fully take hold.
• An average freight train takes 1 1/2 miles to come to a complete stop.
• Of all the public railroad crossings (those crossing public roads and highways), only about 53% are controlled by electronic signals. Many private railroad crossings (on farms and industrial parks) are not marked at all.

How do you guard against becoming one of the statistics?

• Assume that there is a train on every track at all times, even tracks that are rarely used. If there is a stop sign at the crossing, stop! If there is a yield sign or electronic signals, slow and make sure that no trains are approaching.
• If there are two or more tracks, make sure there a train isn’t coming in the other direction. In 2000, a firefighter returning from a false alarm waited at the crossing gates for a northbound train to pass. The train passed and stopped just beyond the crossing. The firefighter drove his fire truck around the gate and was struck and killed by a southbound train whose view was obscured by the stopped northbound train. The crossbuck railroad sign will indicate how many tracks there are at the crossing.
• When stopping at a railroad crossing make sure you stop no less than 15 feet from the tracks.
• Never cross a railroad track unless you are sure there is room on the other side for your vehicle to completely clear the tracks. Many collisions occur when a vehicle’s rear end is still hanging out over the tracks.
• Don’t shift gears while crossing a railroad track; it could cause your vehicle to stall.
• If your car stalls on a railroad track, get out of the car immediately, clear the tracks and call 911 for help. If a train is coming, run away from the tracks in the direction of the approaching train. If you run away from the approaching train, you may be injured or killed by flying debris when the train smashes into your car.
• Never try to beat a train at a crossing or snake around the lowered crossing gates. Once the lights start to flash and the crossing gate arms go down, the train will appear in about 20 seconds.

Learn more driver safety tips at The National Safety Commission Alerts.