Good friend Stu Resmer sent me this You Tube video on the Beast - It is an interview with a former GM employee who help build the Presidential Limo - in the interview he criticizes the “other manufacture” (Ford). He said that the Bush limo had poor brakes. I find that hard to believe. http://tinyurl.com/cdggn5z This is a video of the last time the President's Vehicle made the … [Read more...]
Airless Tires
January 6, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Goodyear has developed self-inflating tire technology intended to keep commercial truck tires at the proper pressure, with the end result saving fuel and reducing tread wear. The system, which Goodyear calls Air Maintenance Technology, automatically keeps tires inflated without the need for electronic controls or external pumps. This is drastically different than the Michelin Tweel. The Tweel is a … [Read more...]
Windshields
April 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Over 90 percent of the information we need to control the vehicle comes from what we see. Vision is the foundation of safe and secure driving. Vision is a complex sense affected by a number of variables, many over which we have no control. Your vision inside the car is not only affected by physical limitations but by factors such as tinted windshields. Just how much visibility do we have when … [Read more...]
Mission Oriented Driving Skills (MODS) – Driving Into The Kill Zone
October 9, 2009 by 4 Comments
We recently conducted a program for a group of law enforcement officers whose mission requires them, on a regular basis, to drive into the kill zone. This is a scenario the security community may find unusual. But there are SWAT Teams all over the world whose job requires them on a regular basis to drive into the kill zone. This scenario is a classic example of a group whose mission does not fit … [Read more...]