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Engineers Seek Cure
NIST Campus - Gaithersburg, MD, site of the 3rd Joint Military/Civilian Seminar On Intelligent Vehicle Technology Transfer
CDC's FIFTH LEADING KILLER
People who donate to AIM are the ones that make it possible for AIM Team members to continue working on a cure for the 5th leading killer in the USA - traffic accidents. Traffic accidents kill nearly 4,000 people and injure many times that number each month. With numbers that high, traffic accidents rank right up there with Cancer as a major health issue. This a major health problem that engineers can cure. AIM is working to do something about that. As an all-volunteer not-for profit organization the AIM Team needs to find sponsors to send me, Paul Grayson, the team's Chief Engineer, to the 3rd Joint Military/Civilian Seminar On Intelligent Vehicle Technology Transfer Mapquest indicates that the trip will take 11 hours, 39 minutes each way and is 1,465.60 miles round trip. AIM is looking for people who want to make a difference in the world, people who want to make life better for others and themselves by donating one dollar a mile. To save the life of a neighbor, friend, loved one, or yourself, how many miles would you be willing to sponsor?
OF DEATHS BY INJURY
When the CDC ranks causes of death by injury in the USA, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause. In some age groups, way ahead of cancer. These groups are ironically young people, who otherwise have the largest number of years of life ahead of them, who are killed. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 0 to 3 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 4 to 11 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for adolescents ages 12 to 19 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for adults ages 20 to 49 (CDC 2004).
Maybe engineers are not the people best equipped to cure cancer, but here is a leading killer that is within our reach. Let's do something about it. I am driving to 1,465.60 miles to attend the IVTT seminar. Many of you live closer than I do and could attend by only taking two days off from work. Others could get the company they work for to send them to the seminar because it represents an emerging multi-billion dollar market that their company may profit from. How ever you do it, meet me there.
PAIN AND SUFFERING PREVENTABLE
The CDC's statistics relate to deaths. They miss the many times larger numbers of people injured but not killed. Injuries run the entire range from minor to nearly dead. The best solution to prevent both the deaths and the injuries is to put horse-sense back into the transportation system. If cars, busses, and trucks simply refused to run into each other, there would be no fender benders nor would there be any of the more serious accidents. As engineers this is something we can do. You probably are working out the details in your head right now, so let's band together solve this urgent public health problem now. With lives being lost every day, time is lives. What would be the most rapid way that you could accomplish this engineering transformation?
JUDGE RULES ON ENGINEER'S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The cops thought it was a routine traffic stop when the pulled a car over until they spoke to the driver. His reaction to their questions lead them to believe there was a body in the trunk so they popped it open. Rather than finding a kidnap victim they found a machine that made perfect slugs that would fool any coin mechanism in any vending machine and large bags of slugs. The judge, besides finding the engineer guilty for defrauding vending machine operators, added in his judgment that it is the responsibility for those who know how, such as the engineer before him, to use their skills and talents for the social good not evil. We should take stock of what we do in a day and ask ourselves if the job we do is contributing to the social good - some jobs do, other jobs are just jobs. If you have a job that does not allow you to contribute to the social good, or does not allow you to contribute to your full potential, I suggest that you do it on your own. I suggest that you find an engineering project to volunteer on where you can discover what your full potential is - such as AIM's search for a cure for traffic accidents.
MY IVTT TRIP CHECKLIST
Each of you have probably been on many business trips and I offer my checklist for comparison:
NAV system, digital camera, batteries, memory card, anti-acid, aspirin, lap-top computer, eye glasses, networking cable, pens, pencils, eraser, notebooks, brief case, suite case, seminar file, compass, flashlight, paper maps, winter hat, parka, gloves, leather mittens, snow shoes, insulated snow boots, shovel, sleeping bag, blanket, jumper cables, static inverter, cooler to keep stuff from freezing, digital card reader and cord, food, water, candy, regular snacks, healthy snacks, gas can, can spout, tow strap, peanut butter, jelly, fork, knife, spoon, coffee mug, change of clothes, tooth brush, tooth paste, mouth wash, electric razor and cord, cell phone, cell phone charger, power steering fluid, engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, engine coolant, washer fluid, tires are new and aligned, spare tire, lug wrench, jack, jack handle, ... did I forget anything? Oh yes, "punch up full-auto-drive, settle back and enjoy the scenery".
TRADE OFFS
Cash Cost
Bargain Air Fare, airport cab, extra day at the hotel to meet the bargain air fair minimum stay, about = $700
-vs-
Driving, (arrive and leave at any time) the fuel cost, tolls, about = $220
Travel Time
Time at airport, (arriving two hours early to check through security, layover between planes), and flying, about = 9 hrs each way
-vs-
Time driving, about = 12 hours each way
2007 DARPA URBAN CHALLENGE
Fender mounted crash prevention device? Laser scanner spinning. Photo by AIM Team members Linda and Tom Graham.
GO ROBOTS !
Paul F. Grayson - Chief Engineer
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MAGIC, LLC
Racing to build technology that saves soldier's lives.
390 4-Mile Rd. S.
Traverse City, MI 49686-8411
(231) 946-0187, (231) 883-4463 Cell
pgrayson@aimagic.org
http://aimagic.org
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robotcluboftraversecitymi/
http://www.controleng.com/index.asp?layout=blog&blog_id=1180000318
Engineers Seek Cure
January 28, 2008
NIST Campus - Gaithersburg, MD, site of the 3rd Joint Military/Civilian Seminar On Intelligent Vehicle Technology Transfer
CDC's FIFTH LEADING KILLER
People who donate to AIM are the ones that make it possible for AIM Team members to continue working on a cure for the 5th leading killer in the USA - traffic accidents. Traffic accidents kill nearly 4,000 people and injure many times that number each month. With numbers that high, traffic accidents rank right up there with Cancer as a major health issue. This a major health problem that engineers can cure. AIM is working to do something about that. As an all-volunteer not-for profit organization the AIM Team needs to find sponsors to send me, Paul Grayson, the team's Chief Engineer, to the 3rd Joint Military/Civilian Seminar On Intelligent Vehicle Technology Transfer Mapquest indicates that the trip will take 11 hours, 39 minutes each way and is 1,465.60 miles round trip. AIM is looking for people who want to make a difference in the world, people who want to make life better for others and themselves by donating one dollar a mile. To save the life of a neighbor, friend, loved one, or yourself, how many miles would you be willing to sponsor?
OF DEATHS BY INJURY
When the CDC ranks causes of death by injury in the USA, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause. In some age groups, way ahead of cancer. These groups are ironically young people, who otherwise have the largest number of years of life ahead of them, who are killed. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 0 to 3 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for children ages 4 to 11 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for adolescents ages 12 to 19 (CDC 2004). Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for adults ages 20 to 49 (CDC 2004).
Maybe engineers are not the people best equipped to cure cancer, but here is a leading killer that is within our reach. Let's do something about it. I am driving to 1,465.60 miles to attend the IVTT seminar. Many of you live closer than I do and could attend by only taking two days off from work. Others could get the company they work for to send them to the seminar because it represents an emerging multi-billion dollar market that their company may profit from. How ever you do it, meet me there.
PAIN AND SUFFERING PREVENTABLE
The CDC's statistics relate to deaths. They miss the many times larger numbers of people injured but not killed. Injuries run the entire range from minor to nearly dead. The best solution to prevent both the deaths and the injuries is to put horse-sense back into the transportation system. If cars, busses, and trucks simply refused to run into each other, there would be no fender benders nor would there be any of the more serious accidents. As engineers this is something we can do. You probably are working out the details in your head right now, so let's band together solve this urgent public health problem now. With lives being lost every day, time is lives. What would be the most rapid way that you could accomplish this engineering transformation?
JUDGE RULES ON ENGINEER'S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
The cops thought it was a routine traffic stop when the pulled a car over until they spoke to the driver. His reaction to their questions lead them to believe there was a body in the trunk so they popped it open. Rather than finding a kidnap victim they found a machine that made perfect slugs that would fool any coin mechanism in any vending machine and large bags of slugs. The judge, besides finding the engineer guilty for defrauding vending machine operators, added in his judgment that it is the responsibility for those who know how, such as the engineer before him, to use their skills and talents for the social good not evil. We should take stock of what we do in a day and ask ourselves if the job we do is contributing to the social good - some jobs do, other jobs are just jobs. If you have a job that does not allow you to contribute to the social good, or does not allow you to contribute to your full potential, I suggest that you do it on your own. I suggest that you find an engineering project to volunteer on where you can discover what your full potential is - such as AIM's search for a cure for traffic accidents.
MY IVTT TRIP CHECKLIST
Each of you have probably been on many business trips and I offer my checklist for comparison:
NAV system, digital camera, batteries, memory card, anti-acid, aspirin, lap-top computer, eye glasses, networking cable, pens, pencils, eraser, notebooks, brief case, suite case, seminar file, compass, flashlight, paper maps, winter hat, parka, gloves, leather mittens, snow shoes, insulated snow boots, shovel, sleeping bag, blanket, jumper cables, static inverter, cooler to keep stuff from freezing, digital card reader and cord, food, water, candy, regular snacks, healthy snacks, gas can, can spout, tow strap, peanut butter, jelly, fork, knife, spoon, coffee mug, change of clothes, tooth brush, tooth paste, mouth wash, electric razor and cord, cell phone, cell phone charger, power steering fluid, engine oil, transmission fluid, brake fluid, engine coolant, washer fluid, tires are new and aligned, spare tire, lug wrench, jack, jack handle, ... did I forget anything? Oh yes, "punch up full-auto-drive, settle back and enjoy the scenery".
TRADE OFFS
Cash Cost
Bargain Air Fare, airport cab, extra day at the hotel to meet the bargain air fair minimum stay, about = $700
-vs-
Driving, (arrive and leave at any time) the fuel cost, tolls, about = $220
Travel Time
Time at airport, (arriving two hours early to check through security, layover between planes), and flying, about = 9 hrs each way
-vs-
Time driving, about = 12 hours each way
2007 DARPA URBAN CHALLENGE
Fender mounted crash prevention device? Laser scanner spinning. Photo by AIM Team members Linda and Tom Graham.
GO ROBOTS !
Paul F. Grayson - Chief Engineer
AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL MAGIC, LLC
Racing to build technology that saves soldier's lives.
390 4-Mile Rd. S.
Traverse City, MI 49686-8411
(231) 946-0187, (231) 883-4463 Cell
pgrayson@aimagic.org
http://aimagic.org
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/robotcluboftraversecitymi/
http://www.controleng.com/index.asp?layout=blog&blog_id=1180000318
Posted by on January 28, 2008 | Comments (0)
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