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The presidential state car – also called The Beast and Cadillac One – is the President’s go-to vehicle for safe traveling.
It has five-inch thick bulletproof glass and polycarbonate windows that don’t roll down, except the driver’s window which rolls down just a few inches. It makes sense that if you are going through such measures to add a window that can stop armor-piercing bullets that you wouldn’t want to ruin the protection by having the windows rolled down.
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In the early days of the automobile manufacturers did sell directly to the consumer. Then automobile sales began to boom. Manufacturers didn’t have the capital to create enough dealerships to sell all their cars in every city across the nation so they franchised out to dealerships.
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With a gas or diesel engine the engine has to spin to provide any power at all to the wheels. If you want more power then you can only add more fuel up to a point.
At some point getting more power out of an engine means you have to have the engine spin faster.
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School buses are designed in a compartmentalized fashion, that is the seats are close together with high backs, which keeps passengers relatively restrained in a crash, even without seat belts. The NHTSA has spent a fortune studying this, and has found that adding seat-belts doesn’t increase the safety of school buses enough to warrant a full refurbishment or re-design of buses.
Burning fuel can produce several toxic gases. A catalytic converter is a device that takes those toxic gases and converts them into less toxic gases.
For example, it converts Carbon monoxide into Carbon Dioxide, and Nitric Acid into Nitrogen and Oxygen (and a few other reactions).
In order to do this, it needs some precious metals which act as catalysts for the reactions. These metals don’t get consumed, but their presence helps to trigger these reactions. A catalytic converter will contain Rhodium, Platinum, and Palladium.
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