There are two pretty good ways to weigh a car: Drive it to the nearest public weighbridge and wait your turn. Look up the manual under General Specifications, ‘kerb weight’ But let's suppose the nearest public weighbridge is fifty miles away and you've lost the manual (and temporarily forgotten how to use public libraries and the Internet) and the burning urge to weigh your car just won't go away- what can you do about it? The good news is, you need hardly any equipment. All you need, for a reasonably accurate result is: a hand-held tyre pressure gauge which can be analogue or digital a retractable steel measuring tape a calculator, pencil and paper, or a good head for mental arithmetic The method Park the car on some clean, level concrete Observe that the car is held up by its four tyres (!) Measure the width of the tread of one tyre: e.g. 6 inches Measure the length of tread in contact with the ground: e.g. 7 inches Work out the area of tread touching the ground: e.g. 6 x
It's not just TV - they go into schools, place products in movies,and put advergames online - you can't shied children from EVERYTHING! Sure, parents can refuse to buy these foods, but what kind of society lets an industry actively and deliberately WORK AGAINST parents?? Do we let cigarette or alcohol companies market to children and then tell parents "don't buy these for your kids?" That would be stupid - and so is letting food companies market to children.
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