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+24 +1A route of life-changing moments
Highway 2 isn’t the quickest route across Washington state – and that’s exactly why you take it.
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+2 +1Why Drivers in China Intentionally Kill the Pedestrians They Hit
In April a BMW racing through a fruit market in Foshan in China’s Guangdong province knocked down a 2-year-old girl and rolled over her head. As the girl’s grandmother shouted, “Stop! You’ve hit a child!” the BMW’s driver paused, then switched into reverse and backed up over the girl. The woman at the wheel drove forward once more, crushing the girl for a third time. When she finally got out from the BMW, the unlicensed driver immediately offered the horrified family a deal...
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+18 +1Another Truck Hits That Massachusetts Bridge
The East Street Bridge is well-known to people in the small town of Westwood, but apparently it’s not well known to truck drivers. That’s because trucks slam into the low-lying bridge frequently, and yet, it keeps happening.On Thursday, August 20, it happened again. You can see the food distribution truck ram into the bridge, bursting into pieces. Despite lights and warnings signs, trucks continue to slam into the railroad bridge.
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+13 +1Why the time is right to re-examine the L.A. freeway
In 1981, a young writer named David Brodsly described the Los Angeles freeway as one of the city's indispensible metaphors, “one of the few parts capable of standing for the whole.” He argued that the freeway had expanded “the realm of the accessible” for drivers in Southern California — that it was a powerfully democratic force, in essence — and lent “a new clarity” to a vast metropolitan region that newcomers had long found illegible and tough to grasp.
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+51 +1In Colorado, police can stop you for driving high
Marijuana may be legal in Colorado but driving under the influence of weed isn't. See what happens during a marijuana DUI traffic stop.
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+8 +1Fatal crashes involving marijuana double in Washington
The Washington Traffic Safety Commission says more marijuana-using drivers are getting into fatal crashes.
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+15 +1Whoops! Dump Truck Takes Out Sign
Dump truck driving in the up position slams overhead sign. It's far from the first time that's happened.
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+23 +1A Simple Fix for Drunken Driving
On Aug. 19, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration begins its annual “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign, running for three weeks through the Labor Day weekend—a time of year when drunken-driving fatalities typically surge. Over the past generation, we’ve made important progress against “driving under the influence,” but the numbers haven’t dropped much recently, and the problem still costs some 10,000 Americans their lives each year.
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+2 +1How Uber Hides Behind Its Algorithm
The disingenuous ways Uber hides behind its algorithm.
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+2 +1Here's How Much the Average Ride Costs on Uber and Lyft
Uber drivers make more than Lyft drivers on average
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+18 +1One Toke Over the Line: Race on to Develop 'Pot Breathalyzer'
As cannabis bans are relaxed in more U.S. states, the race is on to develop an instant roadside breathalyzer for police to test drivers who may be taking the "high" road.
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+11 +1496 Uber cars seized amid crackdown on illegal pickups
Hundreds of Uber cars were taken off the streets this spring as part of a larger city crackdown on illegal activity by black and livery cars, new data reveals. The Taxi and Limousine Commission sei...
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+22 +2In Five Years, Your Car Will Prevent You From Driving Drunk
Automatically saving lives.
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+40 +1Pay Up, Slowpokes: More States Fine Drivers Who Dawdle in the Left Lane
Indiana will charge $500 fines to slowpokes who refuse to move out of the left lane when traffic piles up behind them.
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+13 +1Vernon Mountie pretends he's homeless to catch drivers on cellphones
A British Columbia Mountie who posed as a homeless man - sort of - says the tactic was an effective way to catch drivers using cellphones or not wearing their seatbelts.
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+5 +1Orthodox Jewish women driving ban unacceptable, says Nicky Morgan
A ban on women driving their children to school issued by a Jewish education institution is "unacceptable", Education Secretary Nicky Morgan says.
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+13 +2The Modernist God That Failed
How Le Corbusier’s utopian ideal of mobility brought ruin to Dallas neighborhoods, and why it still dominates decision-making in Dallas today.
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+11 +1Police All Over the U.S. Are Issuing Fewer Traffic Tickets
Drivers appear to be catching a break from cops, who are writing fewer tickets of late. But don't think for a second the decrease is because police have become softies all of a sudden.
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+2 +2Deadliest Road Accidents - Narrow Escape from Death
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+19 +1Seattle Driver Blocking Bicycle Lane to Cyclist: "I Literally Don't Give a Fuck About Anything You Say"
This situation escalated quickly. In a video posted on Reddit (see below), a car driver appears to be parked directly in front of an official sign (like the one at right) telling drivers to "please" not park in the cycle track. Reached via Reddit, the cyclist says he commutes from Ballard to downtown via Fremont Bridge and Dexter Avenue.
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