Question
Preventing Backovers in America's Driveways
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
1 Vehicle backover injuries and deaths occur when someone, without a driver’s knowledge or awareness, is positioned behind a vehicle as the driver is backing out of a driveway or other parking spot. Most victims of backovers are the elderly and children.
2 To add to the tragedy of backover injuries and deaths, the driver is often a neighbor or relative. When a child is the victim, the driver may even be the child’s mother or father.
3 Since most of these heartbreaking incidents occur in private driveways rather than on the road, they are not typically included in traffic-crash fatality data. Therefore, experts often don’t agree on the exact number of children injured or killed in backover incidents each year.
4 But even one child who dies from a backover incident is one too many. Awareness and understanding of the problem are the first steps toward reducing the risk of backover deaths.
All Vehicles Have Blind Spots
5 In the case of a backover incident, the blind spot is the place behind your vehicle that you cannot see in the rear or side view mirrors — or even by craning your neck out the driver’s side window. Generally speaking, the larger the vehicle, the larger the blind spot.
6 Blind spots for shorter drivers tend to be significantly larger as well. In addition, the elevation of the driver’s seat, the shape of a vehicle’s windows and mirrors, and the slope of a driveway can affect the size of the blind spot behind a vehicle. In addition, the smaller stature of children can make them particularly difficult for a driver to see when backing up.
What inference does the passage support regarding backover data?
Responses
A that the data presented so far is inconclusivethat the data presented so far is inconclusive
B that backovers make up a number of traffic-crash fatalitiesthat backovers make up a number of traffic-crash fatalities
C that more children are injured than are actually killed in these accidentsthat more children are injured than are actually killed in these accidents
D that backovers do not make up a significant number of traffic-crash fatalities
National Highway Transportation Safety Administration
1 Vehicle backover injuries and deaths occur when someone, without a driver’s knowledge or awareness, is positioned behind a vehicle as the driver is backing out of a driveway or other parking spot. Most victims of backovers are the elderly and children.
2 To add to the tragedy of backover injuries and deaths, the driver is often a neighbor or relative. When a child is the victim, the driver may even be the child’s mother or father.
3 Since most of these heartbreaking incidents occur in private driveways rather than on the road, they are not typically included in traffic-crash fatality data. Therefore, experts often don’t agree on the exact number of children injured or killed in backover incidents each year.
4 But even one child who dies from a backover incident is one too many. Awareness and understanding of the problem are the first steps toward reducing the risk of backover deaths.
All Vehicles Have Blind Spots
5 In the case of a backover incident, the blind spot is the place behind your vehicle that you cannot see in the rear or side view mirrors — or even by craning your neck out the driver’s side window. Generally speaking, the larger the vehicle, the larger the blind spot.
6 Blind spots for shorter drivers tend to be significantly larger as well. In addition, the elevation of the driver’s seat, the shape of a vehicle’s windows and mirrors, and the slope of a driveway can affect the size of the blind spot behind a vehicle. In addition, the smaller stature of children can make them particularly difficult for a driver to see when backing up.
What inference does the passage support regarding backover data?
Responses
A that the data presented so far is inconclusivethat the data presented so far is inconclusive
B that backovers make up a number of traffic-crash fatalitiesthat backovers make up a number of traffic-crash fatalities
C that more children are injured than are actually killed in these accidentsthat more children are injured than are actually killed in these accidents
D that backovers do not make up a significant number of traffic-crash fatalities
Answers
GPT-4o mini
The inference the passage supports regarding backover data is:
A. that the data presented so far is inconclusive.
The passage mentions that incidents of backovers typically occur in private driveways and are therefore not included in traffic-crash fatality data, leading to disagreements among experts about the exact number of injuries and deaths. This suggests that there isn't a clear or conclusive data set on these incidents.
A. that the data presented so far is inconclusive.
The passage mentions that incidents of backovers typically occur in private driveways and are therefore not included in traffic-crash fatality data, leading to disagreements among experts about the exact number of injuries and deaths. This suggests that there isn't a clear or conclusive data set on these incidents.