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Previous issues: (ESPAÑOL)

Number 1 / Sep 28, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (1)
  - Using automatic transmissions
  - What is a vehicle policy good for?
Number 2 / Oct 4, 2007
  - Which is the proper driving position? (2)
  - What to do when the engine overheats
  - Evaluate and train drivers
Number 3 / Oct 11, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (1)
  - How to distribute load in trucks
  - The reasons why road research is necessary
Number 4 / Oct 18, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (2)
  - Tips to conserve the battery
  - Auditing vehicles
Number 5 / Oct 25, 2007
  - How to brake correctly (3)
  - How to maintain tires in good conditions?
  - Managing vehicle risk
Number 6 / Nov 1, 2007
  - How we adjust car mirrors?
  - How to prevent the engine from overheating?
  - Accidents study
Number 7 / Nov 8, 2007
  - Precautions when driving at night
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (1)
  - Trip planning, a combining tool
Number 8 / Nov 15, 2007
  - Braking with air brakes
  - Fifth Wheel and King Pin (2)
  - Repair shop audits
Number 9 / Nov 22, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (1)
  - Tire maintenance (1)
  - 24hs driving safely recording
Number 10 / Nov 29, 2007
  - The overtake manoeuvre (2)
  - Tire maintenance (2)
  - Taking responsibility for the hired driving
Number 11 / Dec 6, 2007
  - Driving when it rains
  - Understanding tire markings
  - Access control
Number 12 / Dec 13, 2007
  - Driving with Anti Lock Braking System
  - Coupling system safety
  - Safe driving, Values and Culture
Number 13 / Dec 21, 2007
  - When it's better to avoid driving?
  - Safety chains for coupling systems
  - Management rules and certification
Number 14 / Dec 27, 2007
  - Overspeed brakes' trailers
  - Air conditioning maintenance
  - Where to start from
Number 15 / May 14, 2008
  - Driving Definition
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 16 / May 28, 2008
  - The Attitude's influence when driving
  - Gear box oil
Number 17 / Jun 11, 2008
  - Driving through curves
  - How to choose the best tires
Number 18 / Jun 25, 2008
  - Anxiety effects in driving
  - Maintained shock absorbers, safety vehicles
Number 19 / Jul 10, 2008
  - Driving backwards
  - Prepare your vehicle for cold weather
Number 20 / Jul 23, 2008
  - Sleeping well, better driving
  - Exhaust fumes colour diagnosis
Number 21 / Aug 6, 2008
  - How to ascend and descend slopes safely
  - The engine cooling system
Number 22 / Aug 20, 2008
  - Dysfunctional beliefs in women and men driving
  - Safe Load in Tank Trucks
Number 23 / Sep 3, 2008
  - Driving in the fog
  - Safe lights
Number 24 / Sep 17, 2008
  - Driving in the fog - Second part
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (1)
Number 25 / Oct 1, 2008
  - Bad habits and their influence in behaviour
  - Hydraulic brakes safe maintenance (2)
Number 26 / Oct 15, 2008
  - How we learn to drive
  - Reducing tire air pressure
Number 27 / Oct 29, 2008
  - Crossing junctions
  - Dangerous alterations and modifications on heavy vehicles
Number 28 / Nov 12, 2008
  - Driving and distraction
  - Common transmission failures
Number 29 / Nov 26, 2008
  - Two different ways of understanding "Driving"
  - Safe lights
Number 30 / Dec 10, 2008
  - Preventing distractions
  - Failures easy to be detected
Number 31 / Jan 14, 2009
  - "Accident", its definition
  - Electronic Stability Control
Number 32 / Jan 28, 2009
  - Fatigue, the driving enemy
  - The steering on vehicles
Number 33 / Feb 11, 2009
  - Perceptual phenomena
  - Steering regulation
Number 34 / Feb 25, 2009
  - Car drivers and bikers, an intelligent coexistence
  - Progress in steering systems
Number 35 / Mar 11, 2009
  - Wrong horn usage
  - How the clutch works
Number 36 / 25 Mar, 2009
  - Driving in snowy roads
  - Clutch maintenance
Number 37 / 8 Abr, 2009
  - Understanding signposting
  - Expiring dates
Number 38 / 22 Abr, 2009
  - Rage control
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (1)
Number 39 / 6 May, 2009
  - Can we improve our driving techniques?
  - The importance of the engine's torque when driving (2)
Number 40 / 20 May, 2009
  - Driving and antidepressants, a dangerous combination
  - Correct 4x4 transmissions usage
Number 41 / 3 Jun, 2009
  - The attention degree can be improved
  - Maintenance: the key to extend the engine's service life

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November 26, 2008
number 29

We are glad to send you the 29th INFO MANEJO's issue. Today you will know two different ways of conceiving driving and the way vehicle lamps have evolutioned into safer ones.

We also invite you to visit our new web site where you will find previous INFO MANEJO issues, in their Spanish and English versions.

Two different ways of understanding "Driving"

	Intelligent Driving	Defensive Driving
Definition	Driving is a complex psychomotor activity , which requires superior brain functions. It is an intelligent activity where all the cognitive functions are conditioned by emotions.	Driving defensively means driving to avoid accidents despite other vehicles maneuvers or unsafe conditions.
Main concept	ANTICIPATION.	The driver learns how to react on time.
Objective	An adapted answer throughout a TACTICAL ELABORATION for each situation as the main objective.	Reflex act as cause and objective.
Funciones que intervienen en el manejo	PERCEPTION: Conscience integrates sensitive stimuli of objects, facts or situations and transforms them into useful experience. Subjective activity, i.e. each person estimates the distance in a different way. Experienc: we see what we know.	Objective function which acts in a similar way for all the individuals. It does not consider the emotional item as decisive fact.
Driving technique teaching method	Superior skills to learn a task.	Teaching under rigor
Application considerations	It takes into consideration the environment, the individual and the vehicle.	Rules and behavior are applied in a closed system.
Accidents	It divides the accident in three linked stages. Prevention is the first one; the second one starts when the driver loses control of the vehicle and it is where passive and active safety are analized; the third one -post accident- allows to study the process after stopping.	Its standard formula applies to all the situations. It emphasizes on the defense against the accident.
How to avoid accidents from happening	Each accident is unique and unrepeatable; it is not useful to think on what we could have done. Avoiding accidents means taking the right decisions by planning beforehand.	Visualizing emergencies and planning mentally defensive actions.
Antecedents	Empirical method created in Argentina in the 1980's, after 60.000 driving hours investigation, done with 5.000 persons during ten years and driving 300.000km. Afterwards this method was applied in more than 6.000 professional drivers from 5 corporations and 300 companies.	Created in Texas, USA, in the 1960's.Based on the American driving way.

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Safe lights
Part 2

Following with the advances showed in previous editions, we will introduce now the new vehicle lights characteristics.

New designs

In tune with the advances achieved for lamps, manufacturers have introduced also headlamps that complete their advantages, modifying lamps and diffuse crystals.

Until 1980's only parabolic reflectors were used, while nowadays there are also the complex surface and the ellipsoids ones. The main complex surface lamps' advantage is that, as it is regulated by an informatic system that calculates at every moment where it should project light -a better design- and it does not dazzle. Its second generation, it combines with a smooth crystal -non striated- which allows a wider lamp inclination. In contrast, the ellipsoid lamp includes a convergent lens that directs its rays to a precise point, enabling low height lights, mostly discharge lamps.

Besides, with the intention of reducing their weight, the headlamp crystal is replaced by polycarbonate, a very resistant plastic which offers more design versatility. A special varnish contributes with the necessary protection towards solar radiations, scratches and other type of aggressions such as cleaning products. On the other hand, now lamps have ultraviolet protection to adequate to this new material.

Intelligent lights

Nowadays vehicle lamps are intelligent, being able to adapt to the environment conditions. In this way, the lamps systems detect low visibility and automatically turn on the lights when the vehicle is circulating in dusk or entering a tunnel.

Sensor lamps distribute light through the route sketch, speed and climatic conditions were created by one of the main lamps specialists. These adjust the beam of light to the different conditions: the crossing lamp adapts to each bend of the road by some crossing additional lamps which position according to the steering wheel's rotation, directing the light to the no illuminated part of the bend that the classic crossing lamps do not illuminate, which corresponds with what the driver sees. For the long lights, some secondary mirrors adapt the width and the distance of the beam of light to the vehicle's speed.

Moreover, investigations about night vision systems also are producing results: an infrared eye which its visual field is five times larger than the common lamps. This system introduces a camera in the front rack which detects obstacles -before the eye sees them- through the heat they produce, and projects the images in the lower part of the windshield, giving more time to the driver to react and reduce the dazzling risk.

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