2nd Bach. Cars, environment and safety.

As usual, you will have to send your documents by mail (Act1-EBAU test) before FRI 3rd. But, you will have to do 2 activities for this week: 

• Act1 EBAU text15 "Taking old cars off the road" Sept17, opt1. 
• Act2. Integrated skills using the link provided in Google forms. To access the test, you need to indicate your name, group and email (whatsyourname@iescantabria.net). All the activities are compulsory to move on the form questionnaire and should be filled before FRI 3rd April 23´59h. 

ACT.1: EBAU text 15: TAKING OLD CARS OFF THE ROAD.

• Tyre pressure monitoring systems (TPMS)
• Intelligent speed assistance (ISA)
• Drowsiness and attention detection systems
• Speed limit information (SLI)
• Lane keeping assistance (LKA) and Lane departure warning (LDW)
• Autonomous emergency braking (AEB)
• Electronic stability control (ESC)
• Anti-lock braking systems (ABS)

https://roadsafetyfacts.eu/active-safety-systems-what-are-they-and-how-do-they-work/

ACT.2 INTEGRATED SKILLS 

You will have to answer the questions using the link provided in Google forms. To access the test, you need to indicate your name, group and email (whatsyourname@iescantabria.net). All the activities are compulsory to move on the form questionnaire and should be filled before FRI 3rd April 23´59h. (NO emails will be sent this week, just filling the form). Integrated skills includes video-listening, reading comprehension and speaking activies with Vocaroo to be sent via Google Forms. If you have questions, we´ll meet online again on Wed at the time scheduled which will be published on the blog. You are doing GREAT. Hope you are all fine and enjoy this English practice.

View on Vocaroo >>

PLEASE, go directly to the link to do these exercises:

https://forms.gle/LFxEqioUwm2yGGuy6

All new cars in the EU could have speed limiters and breathalyzers as of 2022

The European Union has agreed on new rules stating that all cars built after May 2022 and sold in the European Union will have built-in speed limiters, as well as breathalyzers that won't allow driving if the driver is intoxicated. The European Parliament is expected to ratify the new regulations in September. The UK, which may not be part of the European Union by then, will nevertheless adopt the new rules as well. 

     

The list of new mandatory safety features for cars is actually much longer, and includes some increasingly common features like lane-keeping assistance, advanced emergency braking, a built-in data recorder, drowsiness and distraction monitoring, and camera/sensors help when reversing.    

"With the new advanced safety features that will become mandatory, we can have the same kind of impact as when the safety belts were first introduced. Many of the new features already exist, in particular in high–end vehicles. Now we raise the safety level across the board, and pave the way for connected and automated mobility of the future. But the features that will likely get the most attention are "alcohol interlock installation facilitation" and "intelligent speed assistance." The former typically requires the driver to blow into an in-car breathalyzer before starting the car. If the driver's alcohol level is too high, the car simply won't start. The details of the system that will be mandatory in EU cars are scarce at this point. The latter feature uses GPS as well as a built-in sign recognition system to detect if the car is going over the speed limit. Then the system will warn the driver and automatically slow down the car. However, the driver will be able to override this by pushing on the accelerator pedal. 

PLEASE, go directly to the link to do these exercises:

https://forms.gle/LFxEqioUwm2yGGuy6