If you get into it, there are infinite modifications that can be done to make your car better and safer on the track; among the most important are better suspensions (these are typically HUGE performance upgrades), safety restraint harnesses, tires, brakes, fire extinguisher assemblies, roll bars/cages and seats.
In an e-mail Monday, Wesley Sherwood, a Ford spokesman, said that the automaker was cooperating with the upgraded safety investigation.
All parties should seize on it and turn to upgrading safety, improving service and keeping costs in line — the real issues that matter to riders and workers.
The Bangladeshi government also vowed to upgrade safety standards and revise labor laws to allow unions to form, after a multitude of earlier pledges went largely unfilled.
The budget proposal also calls for expanding NASA's program of upgrading safety for to the shuttle fleet, and increasing spending for incorporating safety measures, to $2.1 billion from $600 million over the next six years.
The project, designed to upgrade safety, added lanes and altered the traffic light sequence to give each leg of the intersection its own green light and protected turn arrows.
The Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh, which killed 1,129 workers in April, intensified international scrutiny on factory monitoring, and pressured the world's biggest retailers to sign on to agreements to tighten inspection standards and upgrade safety measures.
In addition to a slightly updated look and a more refined interior, improvements include a new 4-cylinder engine, new 6-speed manual and automatic transmissions and upgraded safety equipment.
A newly upgraded safety system and regulations governing track maintenance should have been enough to prevent a fatal collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a construction vehicle on Sunday.
Despite $200 million spent over the last three years by Korean Air to upgrade safety, pilots are threatening to strike, saying the airline is unsafe because they are forced to fly too many hours.
The head of France's Nuclear Safety Authority, André-Claude Lacoste, made some of that process public on Wednesday when he told members of Parliament that the country would draw the necessary lessons from the Japanese experience and upgrade safety procedures.
