Mercedes-Benz Innovations

!±8± Mercedes-Benz Innovations

Mercedes-Benz, a subsidiary company of the Daimler AG parent company, is a German based automotive manufacture which produces car, buses, vans and trucks. Having its roots in the very foundation of the automobiles history, the Mercedes-Benz brand has well established heritage and prestige within the market place. The creation of the first automobile by Karl Benz was followed by the first marketed automobile by Mercedes at the turn of the century. The forward thinking company has developed a vast number of innovations over the course of its history, benefiting both the technological standard of the vehicles performance, and the safety of its passengers. Listed below is a collection of innovations thought to have been developed by Mercedes Benz, with many know common in most modern cars and transport vehicles.

- The technology which ceases the drive wheels from spinning was patented, later to be used to develop a traction control system in late eighties.

- Anti-locking brakes were developed by Mercedes-Benz, and were introduced in the eighties.

- Air bags were introduced by the innovative company is the early eighties, a technology which would go onto save a countless number of lives.

- In 1951, Mercedes developed the highly important safety cage, which vastly improved transport safety from then onwards, with the front and rear of the vehicles composing of crumple zones. This innovation has vastly improved vehicle safety, and Mercedes Benz has allowed its competitors to implement such technology in their cars to improve overall road safety, although the technology itself was developed and tested by MB.

- The Mercedes-Benz McLaren is the fastest automatic production road car ever, with a top speed in excess of two hundred miles per hour.

- The safety of seat belts was enhanced greatly by the innovation of the tensioned seat belts. To stop a passenger in the car from being thrown forward upon impact, the new device caused the seat belt to tense upon a crash, or a sudden jerk forwards.

- The company is currently developing a series of safety features to decrease the chance of crash. Such a feature is a device which detects when the drivers eyes show signs of increased closure, a sign the driver is becoming tired and fatigued behind the wheel. Falling to sleep behind the wheel is a major concern for road safety, with many road users lives put at risk from this deadly occurrence. The new Mercedes Benz device is designed to alert drivers when early signs of tiredness are setting in, because alerting the driver early on is important due to the gradual and stealthy manner tiredness can develop.

The innovations of Mercedes Benz were awarded in 2007, with the company receiving an award from What Car for safety standards.

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Talks@Google: Barefoot Ted McDonald

!±8± Talks@Google: Barefoot Ted McDonald

Barefoot running enthusiast Ted McDonald visits Google's Kirkland, WA office to speak about his experiences with barefoot running including his role in Christopher McDougall's "Born to Run." This event took place on March 8, 2010 as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Man Store

!±8± Man Store

I don't want to be a man. I don't want to dress like one, eat like one, or think like one. And I certainly don't want to shop like one. I like being a woman. Always have. So what was I doing in a Man Store last week? I had no choice, that's what.

August 15, 2007, will mark the first anniversary of the day I had to go into a Man Store. It's scary in there. And it's all because of a donut.

Why? I got my first flat tire, and totally freaked out. My car has one of those donut spares designed to go about 40 feet. That's why I keep a regular-sized spare -- what'm I, dumb? -- but I was running errands two hours away from my garage where it's kept. Never mind, I knew what to do. Cry.

I cried so hard, the dry cleaner where the car was laid up called her brother-in-law, the Man mechanic, and he had me thump to his shop on a square tire. He felt it all over. I thought, "What does he think this is this, a date?" I can think mean when hysterical. He then showed me a large, pointy metal object like a splayed arrowhead sticking into the tire. He said I'd have to get a specialist to repair or replace it, that he was only a mechanic. What, I had to go to another Man store?

Add helpless to hysterical and you've got the picture. I thumped over to the tire place and ran in, waving my arms and shrieking, "Help me, Help me! It's an emergency!"

The guy behind the counter looked at me like I was from Mars, not Venus, where women are supposed to be from.

"Vot's the moigency?"

"I've got a flat!!" I screamed wetly.

"Vell, vot's unusual? Ev'body gets flet. Iss common."

At least he didn't say, "Calm down!," those words which act as an emotional steroid, enhancing hysteria. Instead he said, "Zign here undt ve'll take care of der problem. Not to vorry. Diss iss vot ve're here for. Zitt in da lownch, readink der mekasseen." So I sat in the lounge to read a magazine. I can follow orders.

You wouldn't believe what Men consider a "lounge." Old plastic and foam rubber chairs held together by duct tape, a table with styrofoam cups and a coffee maker without coffee, just a burned, bubbling stain at the bottom of the pot. The magazines strewn across a wobbly brown table weren't even copies of People Magazine from the 80s like you find at your dentist's, but a bunch of greasy Field & Streams.

The cover of one issue had a headline about "Skamania" What's a "Ska" and why would it cause a person to become maniacal? Skamania turned out to be a kind of fish, a steelhead, whatever that is. Personally, I'd rather have poached salmon at Spago.

I soon stopped sniveling and began to take an interest in the magazine when I got to an article about a man's "Johnson." It went against everything I had ever believed in to find out a man's Johnson is his outboard motor. That's not what I had heard. Live and learn.

There was also an article about how important a man's rod length is. Maybe Field & Stream is where Hugh Hefner gets some of his story ideas.

Other articles covered "The History of Muck Boots," (they must wear muck boots over at the National Enquirer), "Why Men Love Knives," (I learned there's more to a Man's knife than cleaning his fingernails) and "You Want Fries With Those Eyes?" a real eye opener.

My initiation into Man Stores was interrupted by Tire Man's negative prognosis -- that facist donut I couldn't put on would've saved the impaled tire whose ruination was caused by thumping from Man Store to Man Store. They installed a 9 Dunlop. I hate it that I have three matching tires and a Dunlop.

In my opinion, women just don't belong in Man Stores and we should do everything to avoid such a possibility. My friend said that when she got a flat tire, rather than going into a Man Store, she sold her car.

Just think, I wouldn't have learned anything at all if I had thought to call the Auto Club.

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