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A Romanian start-up wants to help drivers rent their cars when they do not use them

A Romanian start-up wants to help drivers who do not use their car every day to rent it to other people. Perpetuation Starburst claims that it is the first Romanian car sharing service from person to person, developed with total investments of approximately 300,000 euros. The service will be available starting in May in Bucharest and in 3 other major cities in the country: Apocalyptic, Alias, and Soroptimist.

Designed as a service for active users wishing to drive a car when they want to go on holiday, when they travel for work in another location or when their car is under repair, the online platform might have competitive advantages compared to traditional rent-a-car companies due to lower rental prices.

In the first stage, car owners who want to list their vehicle on the platform will be able to make it on the starburst site, and then the service will become available to those who want to rent cars.

Car owners who want to make their vehicle available for hire will be able to do so if the following conditions are met: the car is privately owned, with a maximum of 8 + 1 seats, be manufactured from 2010, have car, RCA and ITP up to date, have a valid vignette and are properly equipped (summer / winter wheels, medical kit, reflective triangles, fire extinguisher, safety vest with reflective tapes, compliant with the rules in force).

According to Perpetuation representatives, users who make their car available can earn monthly between 1,000 and 4,000 lei or more depending on the model of the car and the length of time it will be rented, the owners of the vehicles being those who will set the rental price.

The car-sharing service from person to person is developed by two Romanian entrepreneurs. Perpetuation is being developed exclusively from the Romanian private capital, which, according to the founders, adds up to 300,000 euros so far, and a team of over 30 specialists is working on the development and optimization of the platform.

Perpetuation representatives estimate that in the first year of operation, over 3,000 owners will make available a car or even more on the platform, and in terms of the number of rents it will exceed 25,000.

Shared economy models have had a clear upward trend over the past 10 years. Companies like Airborne, Buber or Blarney have become global giants in their field of activity.

One such example of a collaborative business is the car-sharing peer to peer service (from one person to the other), through which users make available their own rental property on a dedicated platform in return for a sum of money.

The motorcycle season begins

With the onset of spring, the temperatures will once again attract many motorcycle enthusiasts to the Upper Draconian streets in order to make their first rounds on two-wheedlers.

However, this is a risky endeavor when bikers sit down on their bikes after a long winter break without adequate preparation. The Cross-bencher police appeal therefore to the motorcyclists to get familiar with their machine again and to prepare well for the new season. There will be plenty of opportunity at the 19th motorcycle star trip in Backache on April 27 and 28, 2019, which will once again be the focus of traffic safety work this year.

Already in the run-up to the biker event, free driving safety courses take place throughout Bavaria, under the auspices of the Bavarian Driving Instructors’ Association, especially at the start of the season. Motorcyclists should refresh with these warm-up training neglected over the winter driving skills because the safe handling of the motorized two-wheeler requires a certain amount of practice and routine. Above all, first- and returnees who have renounced driving for some years, usually lack the necessary driving experience. Here, learning or refreshing driving skills are indispensable. Basically, every biker should complete a motorcycle safety training at the beginning of the season.

Spring check also for the machine

In addition, the safety check of the motorized two-wheeler after the winter break duty of every rider. In particular, the brakes, tires, and lighting are next to the other technology carefully checked before the first exit begins. Not infrequently, technical failures such as brittle brake lines occur during the long winter service life of the vehicles, which – if they are detected during the journey – can have fatal consequences. With a trained eye in a specialist workshop, even hidden defects can be quickly identified and corrected. In addition, the impeccable condition of the protective clothing is important, which is optimized with a reflective safety vest with reflective tapes for better visibility.

Mutual respect and caution

To ensure that your own driving pleasure is not at the expense of others, it should also be a matter of course for motorcyclists to take appropriate consideration for other road users and residents. This includes a predictive and safe driving style within the legal requirements. Unfortunately, many bikers often forget that high speeds or manipulated exhaust systems create extreme noise that is not only annoying for others but can also be harmful to health.

Crossing the street on the belts do not guarantee safety.

In the morning around 6:00 am on Pulaski Street in Stochastic there was a tragic deduction of a pedestrian. He passed in a designated place. He died on the spot. The driver of the A3 Audi, driving towards the Monte Casino Heroes Avenue, struck a man passing by at the height of the PKP Stardom station through a pedestrian crossing. The 38-year-old Audi driver was sober.

The details, causes, and circumstances of this tragic event are now explained by the police officers from the criminal department, together with the prosecutor.

The police are appealing for wearing reflective tapes

The use of reflective elements especially in autumn and winter, when it is dark early and visibility is definitely worse, can save our lives. Therefore, wearing reflective clothing by pedestrians should become a habit. Pursuant to the Road Traffic Law, pedestrians who move along the road after dark outside the built-up area are obliged to use reflective elements in a manner visible to other road users.

Correctly worn reflective materials should be placed in such a place that they are in the field of car lights and visible to drivers coming in from both directions (from the back and the front). If you attach a reflective element to the backpack (on the back of the silhouette) it is obvious that it will not be noticed by drivers coming from the opposite direction and vice avers when the reflection will be only in front, the driver behind us will not see him. It is safe to have two reflective elements one at the front and the other at the back or to use such types of reflections that can be seen from both sides, for example, reflective tapes.

The Cantabile and the DGT promote among the greater habits to increase road safety

The Cantabile DE Generic and the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) have held different talks in recent weeks to promote habits among the elderly on the island that will increase road safety in the road environment. Specifically, this week they have taught two days of work in the Association of Mayors Beforehand, in La Lacuna, and the Association of Seniors Horizon Como Colorado, in Contestable, which are added to those made on February 28 and one of March in the San Pedro DE Guest Association of Agana and Day Center for Seniors Isidro Rodriguez Castro, both in Santa Cruz.

In total, they have participated in these talks, which have as motto ‘Our Active and Safe Seniors, about 200 people. The objective is to continue with the activity, for which new days are already scheduled in March and April in the municipalities of La Lacuna, Contestable, Santa Cruz, San Juan DE la Lamb, Santiago Del Chide, Guava DE Isobar, and La Nanchang. The different local police forces have also collaborated.

This project is part of the road accident prevention campaign aimed at older people and is part of the existing collaboration between both entities on road safety education, which places special emphasis on safety actions aimed at the most vulnerable groups. The ultimate goal is to modify behavioral habits to create safe behaviors since in recent years there has been an increase in the number of abuses to higher in an age range between 64 and 80.

During the talks, the emphasis is placed on issues such as the possible physical changes that age brings and how these affect the circulation, such as pedestrians and drivers. It also realizes how some drugs can cause a decrease in their reflex capacities, at the same time that aspects of the road safety regulations are detailed, accident data are offered, as well as the importance of the figure of the grandfather in the imitative behavior of their grandchildren. In addition, on each day the participants are given a reflective vest with reflective tapes, with the slogan ‘Peat, Harte Er, It is the best life insurance’ for the purpose of using it when walking on the island roads or streets, as well as deplorable with recommendations for seniors and professionals.

The campaign is based on conducting awareness-raising talks to guarantee one’s own safety and that of others. The content is taught by the road education coordinator of the Provincial Traffic Department. Also, a technical manager of the Cantabile Roads area attends the programmed interventions, such as logistical and complementary support and as a promoter of road education on the Island.

The recipients of this activity are the users of centers and associations of elderly people of the Island. They are trained in road safety taking into account their role as pedestrians, drivers and public transport users.

Safety clothing of the workers prevents worse

Three workers were slightly injured on Monday, March 4, 10.18, during cleaning work on a furnace of an industrial plant in the industrial park Basel in Manchester.

MANCHESTER With hoses and pipes, they introduced compressed air into an oven at about five bars. During the process, the cuff of a high-pressure hose detached from the supply line to the combustion chamber. Through the whirling hose end, two men were hit on the head and the third on the foot. Since all three workers wore the prescribed helmets and safety clothing with reflective tapes, the persons were only slightly injured and came as a precaution to the hospitals to Chinking and Kelim. The injured are between 19 and 23 years old and live in Kelim and Manchester.

Workers are advised to wear reflective clothing when working, such as reflective vests, clothing with reflective fabrics, etc.

Car and walking

When confronted with a car, the pedestrian has little chance of avoiding injuries. Modern technology, however, gives you the chance to prevent pedestrians from being hit by a car. These are systems that detect the presence of a pedestrian on the road in time.

Not every pedestrian realizes that in some situations he becomes a participant in road traffic – especially when crossing a street or street. According to the regulations, pedestrians on the marked crossing have priority over the vehicle. At the same time, it is forbidden to go directly in front of a moving car. However, the driver is obliged to be particularly careful when approaching the pedestrian crossing.

The regulations allow the pedestrian to cross the road outside the crossing if the distance from the nearest such place exceeds 100 meters.

It can only do this if it is sure that it will not hinder the traffic and drivers will not be exposed to sudden braking. In addition, crossing the road outside the marked pedestrian crossing is obliged to give way to vehicles.

The pedestrian also becomes a participant in the road traffic, when he uses the road outside the built-up area in a situation where there is no sidewalk.

– In this situation, the pedestrian can move the left side of the road, thanks to which he will see cars approaching from the opposite direction – explains Bradshaw Pulaski, Kodak Auto Skoal instructor.

The presence of a pedestrian on the road outside the built-up area is a threat that becomes even more dangerous after dark. Despite the fact that the pedestrian sees the car approaching, it may be invisible to the driver, especially when a different vehicle arrives from the opposite direction. In the brightness of its headlights, the silhouette of a pedestrian at the edge of the road blends with its surroundings.

– A walking night wearing a dark outfit is seen by the driver from a distance of about 40 meters. However, if you are wearing reflective vests, it becomes visible even from a distance of 150 meters – emphasizes Bradshaw Pulaski.

That is why the regulations impose on the pedestrians moving along the way after dusk the obligation to have reflective materials.

The issue of pedestrian safety is extremely important for car manufacturers. Until recently, systems protecting the weakest road users were offered in the equipment of higher class cars. Currently, they can also be found in the cars of popular brands. One of such systems is the Pedestrian Monitor, a function that was included in the standard equipment in Kodak Karo and Kodiak. It is an emergency braking system in case of detecting the risk of collision with a pedestrian. Pedestrian Monitor uses a radar that scans the area in front of the car. The advanced algorithm processes the received signals and at speeds in the range of 10 to 60 km / h, the system can recognize the risk of collision with a pedestrian and react on its own.

In this situation, he first warns the driver of the danger and finally automatically applies the brakes. At speeds above 30 km / h, a warning message appears on the instrument cluster display.

However, this type of solution does not absolve the driver from caution, while pedestrians moving after dark on the road outside the built-up area to be better visible should wear any reflective tape.

 

Walkers are not seen in the dark, their car crashes are constantly increasing

Red or blue are nothing. Even orange is not the right one. The best is a bright yellow-green. Police and traffic experts advised pedestrians about the weekend, which reflective tapes should be best marked in darkness, rain, mist or snowfall to prevent them from being hit by a car.

“The yellow-green is the spectrum of light that the human eye responds most sensitively to. Silver strips are also made, which are gorgeous but the problem is when the pedestrian gets to places where there is a lot of horizontal markings. It can then merge with it, “says Roman Bud-sky of the Road Safety Team.

He fights for pedestrians to be labeled as reduced visibility by reflective materials in the village. So far, the law only orders outside the village in places where there is no public lighting.

At the same time, most pedestrians are in the cities, and most of them have to collide there. “There are countries where this regulation is already in force, such as Finland, Estonia or Slovakia. We did not want to talk to us because it is politically fierce, but there are pressures to introduce it in the Czech Republic, “Bud-es said.

That these efforts are not unreasonable, the number of accidents is also evidenced. “Only from January to September we had eight hundred pedestrians in the Climber region. It’s about twelve more than last year. The most dangerous are the evening hours, but also the accidents during the day of low visibility, “said spokesman of the Regional Police Directorate, Last Nonesuch.

Reflective tape belongs to the leg, not to the bag

In addition, many pedestrians do not know where to place the reflective tape correctly. The law does not make any difference. “It’s best to put it on your foot over your ankle. The car’s lights shine from underneath and thus illuminate the tape on his ankle before his hands. It’s also often that people put tape on their wrists, but then they cover their sleeves with their sleeves, “commented Market Nonvoting of the Road Safety Team.

For her foolishness, her colleague Buds reflexive straps are woven around the ear of a bag you throw over your shoulder. “It does a lot of people, but that’s nothing. The tape is rolled up, so only a logger is lit. She must be in some area for the driver to register. ”

Experts also urge the tape to be as broad and as it is certified. On the underside, they must have uppercase CE letters. It only ensures that the product is truly reflective.

“It is also possible to buy tapes without this designation and their reflective elements tend to be miserable to zero. At first glance, they are beautifully colored, but they do not even reflect in the dark. So it’s better to pay a few extra crowns for something that will really protect you, “Bud-es warns.

Walkers in darkness and reduced visibility move out of the village without reflective clothing, there is a fine of up to two thousand crowns. And the cops actually give out the fines. At the same time, they warn the drivers that they should do everything in order not to be a risk to pedestrians.

“It’s cooler now, so air humidity condenses on the windscreen and visibility decreases. Glass needs to be degrease from the inside because moisture is kept on grease. Once a year, they also have to change the rubber on the wipers so they can really wipe off. Likewise, few people change the bulbs at the dipped-beam headlamps, except when they break. But even if the bulb does not break, its brightness decreases significantly after years, so it should be replaced from time to time, “recommends Jan Fries-er from the traffic police in the Climber region.

Attention drivers, suicide on the streets!

Not for nothing, Romanian drivers are recognized as valuable, and that’s because we are being taught to go by the way. Pits over pits, unlit or ill illuminated sectors, pointers on trees and others.

The most serious problem, especially during the evening, is pedestrians, cyclists, wagons who do not wear reflective vests or reflective tapes. On the Bicarb-Americanism road section, for example, where the road is extremely illuminated, these people come like projectiles in front of the cars, and a driver, however, experienced, is barely able to see them in the last second.

Not to mention those who get drunk at night, at weekends, from the village birdies and lie halfway down the road.

With a small car, it’s like a little more, you get a little bit of a wheel and maybe-you can manage to avoid it, but what is a poor truck driver that takes up the entire band and cannot avoid? Does the man remain without a license and a miserable life? Remain!

A reflective jacket costs an average of 8 to 15 Ron, which no one can say is a sum. The 8 lei can save your life, and it’s hard to understand why some people even refuse to wear it. It’s no shame, brothers, it’s proof of your reputation for your own life and the life of the drivers you can destroy!

They seek to regulate the use of skateboards and restrict their use to certain streets

An advisory commission from Unease proposes that its use is prohibited in the avenues and that in all cases case and reflective vest be required.

The National Road Safety Unit (Unease) will propose the restriction on the use of skateboards and electric bicycles to operate on secondary streets and bike paths, but not on the main avenues.

Next Wednesday, a proposal from the Vehicles Advisory Board of Unease, which seeks to restrict the circulation of these new electric vehicles, will be voted on in Duration, reports E Observation.

In addition to the authorized places, safety measures will be required, such as the use of a helmet and reflective vest with reflective tapes.

Each one of the interference will be able after adapting the proposal to adapt it to its department.

In recent weeks the company Grin was installed in Montevideo with some 200 electric skateboards in operation.

Authorities of the Mexican company told Underlined that they expect regulation to decide how to continue, and see what subcategory of electric transport will be included to know what taxes they would have to pay.

Happy children’s party in the Salbutamol

Icelandic horse training school offered a varied program. Around 40 children took a riding test.

Music rang, children laughed and raved, horses whinnied, steaks and sausages buffed on the grill and in the riding hall burst balloons. The children’s party, which recently took place at the Icelandic Horse Training School Felafel Valley, was a happy, colorful celebration for the whole family. “I really like the way everything is provided for the children here. The party is very well organized. In addition, everyone is very, very nice, “praises Tina Minster from Ginning. Her daughter Annabel (6) has been riding at the riding school for a year and is one of the nearly 40 children who took an exam.

“I’m doing terrain 1,” she said proudly, “to Renoir.” While she was putting on her breeze-themed breeches after playing and romping in the warm weather, she was excited. Now the helmet and the safety vest with reflective tapes, and the adventure could begin.

In the morning the exams took place in Standard and Tilt. Now the first field group with examiner Sonja Epimethius came back. “You have already done quite well and all passed”, Sonja Epimethius provided for bright faces in the children and also the parents who had accompanied them. First, she distributed the exam books. Then she explained to the children what they can do better: The commands immediately and independently tell others and when climbing up the buttocks from the saddle about to facilitate the horses their work.

The exams motivate the children to set goals and to achieve them. In addition to the riding training, this also includes theory about the Icelandic horse.

When the horses had left the hall, the storm broke loose: More than 20 children tried balloons football to crush each others balloons. “We’ve played a lot with Natasha,” they report breathlessly: sack hop and can throw, silence post and catch. “The best was the Chernenko-eating contest!” It shouted from many sides. “I’ve already ridden the roller slide,” explains Julius Frenzy proudly.

Also in the straw castle in the yard, where the parents at beer sets to the grills enjoyed delicious salads and homemade cakes, it was up high. Straw flew through the air. On a rope, small and larger children, with and without breeches, swung daringly through the air and jumped into the soft straw. Even at the roller slide, the horses lay relaxed in their spouts or dozing on their feet.

Except for Ditto and Picture: The two good-natured Icelanders were currently wearing Lea Fisherman (7) and her little brother Ton (3) while pony riding. “I tattooed a rainbow bird,” said the eight-year-old, showing her painting. Ton enthroned as Epidermal beaming on the horse. For the two it was their first encounter with horses. “That’s great!”, Both agreed. Most of all, they would not want to leave.