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General Motors' collision alert system was introduced in GMC Terrain SUVs in 2012. It uses a camera to provide a warning when there is a vehicle ahead or there is a lane departure. [ 27 ] The 2014 Chevrolet Impala received the radar- and camera-based crash imminent braking (radar technology detects a possible crash threat and alerts the driver.
The large number of alarms, especially of false alarms, has led to several unintended outcomes. Some consequences are disruption in patient care, [10] desensitization to alarms, [11] anxiety in hospital staff and patients, [11] sleep deprivation and depressed immune systems, [11] misuse of monitor equipment including "work-arounds" such as turning down alarm volumes or adjusting device ...
First Alert is the retail brand of American safety equipment manufacturer BRK Brands, Inc., [1] established in 1976 and based in Aurora, Illinois, with a production plant in Juarez, Mexico. Products sold with the brand include carbon monoxide detectors, smoke alarms , fire extinguishers , and other safety products like flashlights and fire ...
Walmart security watches shoppers enter on Black Friday This "code" is one of many innocuous sounding secret codes that stores use to alert employees to problems without distracting you from shopping.
A PASS device (personal alert safety system), also known as a distress signal unit (DSU) or ADSU (automatic distress signal unit), is a personal safety device used primarily by firefighters entering a hazardous or "immediately dangerous to life and health" environment such as a burning building.
A white-noise back-up beeper provides a less disruptive alert than the original pure-tone alert. A back-up beeper, also known as back-up alarm or vehicle motion alarm, is a device intended to warn passers-by of a vehicle moving in reverse. Some models produce pure tone beeps at about 1000 Hz and 97-112 decibels. [1]
A crane retrieves part of the wreckage from the Potomac River, in the aftermath of the collision of American Eagle flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the river (REUTERS)
The law will go into effect at the beginning of next year, allowing California Highway Patrol to activate the alert when Black children and women between the ages of 12 and 25 are reported missing ...