Drivers competence

An incompetent driver is dangerous, but a person with a very limited appreciative intelligence may also cause of lot of harm to himself and to others, even physical harm, particularly if the person is a military officer or a policewoman. You cannot be a successful inventive engineer without constantly improving your appreciative intelligence. It is a process similar to becoming a competent driver. 

By the very nature of their work, drivers operate essentially free of direct supervision. Professional driving is a position of trust for which responsible and competent drivers must be selected. 

One challenge is to people s ability to perceive risks. An example would be drivers who believe that their own driving skills are so superior that they perceive their risk to be so low that they would not respond to any changes in risk. Competent drivers would respond to changes. The basis for the criticism of perceptual skills are the studies of behavioral psychologists who find limits to people s ability to perceive all risks accurately. ... 

If >3 tonnes of LPG is carried, when the vehicle is not being driven, ensure parking is in a safe place or that it is supervised (by the driver or a competent person aged >18). 

Suppose we change our attention from structures in which the driver is functional consideration alone to something like an automobile where cost is also extremely important. We can get the functional job done with other materials, like steel and aluminum and fiberglass in certain places and unreinforced plastic in others. Then, the question becomes can we make a material substitution that will enable us to compete with the cost of these other materials to do a job that with all the other materials we cannot accomplish That is a different kind of question, and then cost becomes an extremely important driver. And, as cost of advanced composite structures goes down, we can expect to see more and more utilization of advanced composite materials. 

The use of renewable resources for manufacturing specific performance and speciality chemicals, and for fibres to replace synthetic ones, is growing. The driver for this is improved cost/performance. In order to have a major impact on the amount of oil and gas used there is a need to convert biomass into new, large-scale basic feedstocks such as synthesis gas or methanol. Many technical developments in separation science as well as improvements in the overall yield of chemicals are required before renewable feedstocks can compete effectively with oil and gas, but the gap will continue to narrow. 

Companies are in the driver s seat. Why shouldn t they initiate the process One thought is for a company to package its needs and then do a little shopping among universities, that is, compete individual universities. This is possible if a company has a well-defined vision of its technology needs and knows what problems need to be solved to achieve that vision. The entire search process can be much better defined and a long-range relationship decision made based on the quality of the professors, the professors desire to work with you, how easy it is to work with that university, and so on. 

The main driver for metrics might be summarized in a common problem faced by a typical research chemist and/or chemical engineer in the chemical processing industries. These individuals are routinely expected to select materials or technologies to carry out various chemical operations and are faced with an array of possibilities that need to balance competing demands for quality, yield, throughput, cost, EHS impact, and the need to provide material for safety and clinical testing. In recent years, scientists are more likely to be asked which of the options under consideration is the most sustainable For example ... 

E85 FFV vehicles are transparent to the driver and offer significant environmental benefits. The key obstacle has been economics. The experience at Chrysler points up once again the difficulty of competing with cheap Middle East oil, regardless of the other attributes of the available AFVs. 

The sophistication of implant machines and the devices they produce have evolved continuously over the past 50 years, and this chapter will give a flavor of the state-of-the-art of the technology and current challenges. At the same time, the economic challenges or drivers cannot be overemphasized. Economics have been an important factor in ion implantation from its inception in chip manufacturing because the implanter cost was incremental to the diffusion systems with which implant competed (McKenna 2000 Rose 1985). 

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