by Rob Douthit
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Luxury Land Rover
glides like a limo
through any surface
The Land Rover LR3 is a luxury SUV that transports you so
smoothly the LR might as well
stand for limousine ride.
Even though the vast majority of drivers spends the vast
majority of their vehicle time
on roads, don’t forget that this
is an exceptionally capable offroad carrier.
Our test drive model, an LR3
HSE, came with a 4.4-liter, 300
horsepower V-8 engine.
The transmission was a sixspeed, electronically controlled
automatic that allowed the
driver to choose from commandshift, sport and manual
modes.
The tester had permanent
four-wheel drive with traction
control.
Additionally, if you need
more proof that this thing is
ready to go where there’s no
pavement, there is a terrainresponse system that lets the
driver shift among general,
snow, mud, sand and rockcrawl modes.
The LR3 is not only able to
go pretty much anywhere you
might want to take a vehicle,
but it also does so carrying
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10 Options for High-Tech
Car Safety Technology
Hear are a few new options available on select car makes
and models that are geared to increase your driving safety.
1. Tire Pressure Monitoring:
An audible alert will sound if your tire pressure becomes too low.
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The 2008 Land Rover LR3 offers
a 300 horsepower V-8, six-speed
automatic transmission and
permanent four-wheel drive.
seven passengers, should your
crew be that large.
Our tester was a beautiful silver 2008 model, which carried a
sticker price of $57,950.
But if you’re willing to wait
a little longer, you can hang on
for an updated 2009 model that’s
coming out in the fall.
The revisions aren’t drastic
but include restyled bumpers
in the front and back and larger
wheel arches that are rounder
and body colored.
Also, the grille bumpers and
the handle for the tailgate will
be body colored; currently they
are black.
The changes are meant to add
a touch of sophistication to the
LR3 design.
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2. Adaptive cruise control/collision mitigation:
Cruise control can now adjust the throttle and brakes to keep a safe
distance from the car in front of you.
3. Blind-spot detection/side assist/collision warning: An alert will sound
in the car if another car or object is in your blind spot.
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“Docudrama” reminds students of importance of safe driving.
It’s that time of year
again for high school students, when the thoughts
offinals, graduation and
awards ceremonies are
replaced with fun, sun
and asummer of freedom.
Unfortunately, the excitement of school coming to
an end coupled with nice
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4. Lane-departure warning/wake-you-up safety: An alert will sound in
the car if you start to wander out of your lane. The feature also measures
oncoming traffic.
5. Rollover prevention/mitigation: If the rollover system senses a
potential rollover it will apply the brakes and adjust the throttle as needed
to help you regain control.
6. Occupant-sensitive/dual-stage airbags: These airbags sense the size,
weight, seatbelt usage, seating position, and vehicle speed to be sensitive
for airbag deployment for each person riding in the car.
7. Emergency brake assist/collision mitigation:
Recognizes when driver makes a panic stop and applies extra braking
pressure to shorten stopping distance.
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weather has proven to be
a dangerous distraction
for young drivers.
According to Resource4Accidents.com,
6,000 teenage drivers die
each year in automobile
accidents. From those
fatalities, 23 percent of
the drivers were under the
influence of
alcohol or
other mindaltering
substances.
The age
group of
16-19 years
old has the
highest rate
of any age
group for
automobile
accidents.
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Springs
Police
Department
of Missouri and a
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8. Adaptive headlights and/or night-vision assist:
The headlights will follow the cars direction to provide light for the
vehicles path; especially helpful when driving around corners.
local CARSTAR thought
the students could use a
reminder as to why driving safety is important,
so they prepared a Ghost
Out/Every 31 Minutes
activity and a docudrama
for the Blue Springs High
School students.
Ghost Out/Every
31 Minutes pulled 31
students involved in
SADD (Students Against
Destructive Decisions)
from their first class and
gave them a Ghost Out
Day t-shirt. The idea was
to convey that every 31
minutes
a person
dies from
an alcoholrelated car
accident.
The junior and senior classes
watched the
docudrama,
which
staged a fatal car accident in front of the high
school. Students and
teachers volunteered to be
“the actors” and local police officers and firefighters were involved.
Four student volunteers
were dressed in prom
attire and situated inside
wrecked cars donated by
CARSTAR. The actors’
roles included a drunk
driver, an innocent bystander, a dead person and
a critically injured person.
The drunk driver helped
show students that more
than 23% of teenagers
killed in car accidents
were under the influence
of alcohol. A 911 call was
placed by the bystander,
and firemen and paramedics showed up to illustrate
how they would deal with
the situation.
When the exercise
ended, the police officers
continued to explain
the seriousness of the
docudrama and presented
safety information that
many young drivers tend
to overlook. Mike Russell, a School Resource
Officer, said the events
seemed to have left
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New tool which provides a view of what is happening behind the car.
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GM’s OnStar and BMW’s Assist notify the response centers with
reports of the accident and other details. Some respond by engaging
precautionary measures in case of an accident.
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a lasting impression.
“Officer Russell showed
that he really cared about
the students and community
when giving his presentation” said Mike Hobick of
KC Auto CARSTAR. “He
helped them understand
the consequences of drunk
driving on individuals and
families. We were happy to
be part of such an important
program that will hopefully
make a big impact
on the students.”
A seatbelt check
was administered at the end
of school, and
those safely
buckled were
rewarded with
care bags donated
by CARSTAR.
The gift bag contained key
chains and additional safety
information.
CARSTAR’s involvement in this program is just
one the of many examples
of a larger campaign that
CARSTAR has been involved with called Be Safe
America. Be Safe America
is CARSTAR’s nationwide
community outreach program, (in conjunction with
the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration) that
advocates safety awareness
and issues in and around cars
to their customers.
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Ever Wonder Where Cruise
Control Came From?
Cruise control is a system in motor
vehicles used to automatically set the rate
of speed in the engine. The driver of the
vehicle manually chooses the speed they
want to travel and then presses the cruise
control button. The system takes over the
throttle and maintains the set speed. Cruise
control allows the driver to take a break from
pressing on the pedal and can aid in preventing unconscious speeding due to lack of
attention.
Speed control in automobiles was first
used in the 1910s through a centrifugal
governor. Ralph Teetor, a blind mechanical
engineer and inventor, developed the first
cruise control system for automobiles in
1945. His inspiration spawned from his annoyance of the person who was driving him
continually speeding up and then slowing
down.
Cruise control was first offered in the 1958
Chrysler Imperial, New Yorker and Windsor
cars. In 1960, all Cadillac’s came equipped
with the cruise control feature.
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5 Allotment
10 Shooting
matches?
14 Ancient alphabetic character
15 City shrouded
in mystery?
16 Lip balm
ingredient
17 “Back in the
___”
18 Encourage
19 St. Andrew’s
Day observer
20 Start of a
watery pun
23 Do-nothing
24 Part of some
exercise
machines
25 Lyndon Johnson’s dog
26 ___ Club (conservationist
group)
28 Fern-to-be
30 Male deliveries
31 Turn
right-side-up
36 Otherwise
37 Middle of a
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watery pun
39 Speleologist’s
study
42 Whatchamacallit
43 Something to
chew
46 Basket material
48 Go round and
round
50 The Little Giant
51 Hardly
underplay
56 Carpenter’s
tool
57 End of a watery
pun
60 Barber’s job
61 Botch
62 Word used in
telling time
63 European
erupter
64 Water usage
measurer
65 ___ Lackawanna Railway
66 Adjudge
67 It might scream
after being
tripped
68 Fish caught in
pots
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1 Savage
2 “The Satanic
Verses” author
3 Foot
comforters
4 Less verbose
5 Nurse a snub
6 Grant and
Downs
7 Lingo
8 Spanish wine
9 Boredom
10 Mud dauber,
for one
11 Spirits
12 They spread
shingles?
13 Release
21 Certain computer message
22 “Me and ___
Jones”
27 Like the
Badlands
29 Cob’s
companion
32 Altar avowal
33 I, to Claudius
34 “Waking ___
Devine” (1998
film)
35 Boris Godunov,
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37 Drone, e.g.
38 Sacred cows,
e.g.
39 Added, as a
fellow member
40 Ancient fertility
goddess
41 Glass-paneled
cabinet
43 Sturgeon eggs
(Var.)
44 Part of a place
setting
45 Erases
47 Matter for the
courts
49 Crow’s home
52 “___ Mia!”
53 Corbeled bay
window
54 Seed’s
protective outer
layer
55 Downy duck
58 Mosque bigwig
59 Statistician’s
calculation