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__//Quentin Green's Page​ //__ ** With five- star crash ratings as common as power steering there is still much to discover along the lines of vehical safety. Mercedes says that they have designed a new model that has almost perfected the safety system in cars. One new feature that the mercedes has is that it not only has airbags on the inside, but the outside as well. If the vehicle senses an unavoidable crash about to occur, it automatically pushes a metal plate down, in order to slow the car down. To help obsorb the impact of a crash the air bags push a metal beam from the sides of the car, to supress the impact. One of the coolest safety features of the new mercedes is its ability to sense moving objects, such as pedestrians or animals, by using infrared night vision, which then shows up on the screen in your car. However if you prefer to look at the road rather than the screen, mercedes is also working on a headlight system that automatically sheds light upon moving objects near the road. One great feature that no other vehicle obtains is this new style of seat belts, where the seatbelt inflates somewhat tube like, when outside contact occurs. They created this seat belt because although seat belts save lives, the strong, jerking motion of an accident often brakes ribs and ruptures internal organs, but this simply puts an end to that. **

__** The Wall Street Journal **__ ​ BP oil company had a major oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It has been said in this article that BP did not follow adequate safety rules. The oil spll was caused after a transocean Ltd. rig that drilled a well for BP in the Gulf of Mexico, southeast of Louisianna which cought fire and sank. There are eleven crew members who are presumed dead, in which they got caught in the worst acid ent in the Gulf for more than twenty-five years. The well, which is approximately five thousand feet below surface level is leaking about one thousand barrels a day. Scientists say tat this could possibly become an enviromental disaster along the Gulf coast, by reaching land.