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Which American City Has the Worst Drivers?
Imagine: You’re driving a car, and the driver ahead of you is behaving erratically. He can’t stay in a lane. He puts on his left turn signal but doesn’t turn. He slows to a near stop for no apparent reason, then surges forward. Finally, he makes a right turn from...
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Woman minding her own business, when suddenly...
Pro Tip: Turn your volume down to save your ear drums a bit of vibration.
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Cellphone use doesn’t increase the number of car accidents, says new study
Cops may still write you a ticket for yakking on a handheld phone while driving. But the link between cellphone use and accidents looks more tenuous if you agree with the conclusions of a recent study from Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Using statistics and data comparisons, the researchers found that the increased use of cellphones has led to no measurable increase in accidents.
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Rush - A sleekly assembled thrill machine
When I heard that Ron Howard was taking on similar material in straightforward dramatic form with Rush—a kind of joint biopic of ’70s Formula One stars Niki Lauda and James Hunt—I wondered if it was possible to make a movie about a death match between racing rivals without slipping into parody. But Howard has done it: Rush is an outsize Hollywood spectacle about two outsize personalities in conflict, a sleekly assembled thrill machine that makes up in excitement for what it lacks in nuance.
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Obama administration considers changing driver license guidelines for elderly
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says it will work to change its strategic plan to ensure the safety of the U.S.’s growing population of older drivers and passengers.
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Feeling a Bit Obsolete in the Driver’s Seat
Infiniti’s G37 has long been the star of Nissan’s luxury brand, largely because it’s been a hands-on car. Now, girding for an autonomous future, Infiniti is trying hands-off instead.
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Brilliant Anti-Speeding Ad from New Zealand
Brilliant Anti-Speeding Ad from New Zealand
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Never Sit At A Red Light Again
Good news for high-speed renegades chasing cross-country, “Cannonball Run” driving records or impatient motorists looking to shave a few seconds off their crosstown commute: Audi is developing a dashboard system that will let drivers know how long they have before upcoming traffic lights change color. The feature will essentially let drivers adjust their speed, so the road ahead is nothing but green lights.
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How London plans to eliminate the search for a parking spot
This week, the City of Westminster, one of London’s local councils, will start embedding the first of 3,000 sensors into the streets. They will be in the ground by the end of March, making London the world’s first major city to adopt the long-heralded “smart parking” revolution.
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California court dismisses Google Glass traffic ticket
A court in Southern California has dismissed what was apparently the first-ever traffic citation issued for wearing Google Glass while driving. Cecilia Abadie was stopped for speeding in late October. When a California Highway Patrol officer approached her, he noticed she was wearing the Google Glass device and issued a second ticket for that.
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Zero Visibility
An accident caused by zero visibility on the road.
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Flashing headlights to warn drivers of a speed trap = constitutionally protected speech
Whether this is the right answer is not clear. The situation is a special case of warnings to hide one’s illegal conduct because the police are coming — “abort the plan to rob the store” or “flush the drugs down the toilet.” True, here that is done by a stranger rather than by a lookout who’s in league with the criminals, but it’s not clear why that should make a constitutionally significant difference.
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Wrong-way driver was going more than 100 mph, witnesses say
A suspected drunk driver going in the wrong direction on the 60 Freeway in Diamond Bar was traveling faster than 100 mph when she caused an accident early Sunday that killed six people, witnesses told the California Highway Patrol.
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Jaywalking: How the car industry outlawed crossing the road
The idea of being fined for crossing the road at the wrong place can bemuse foreign visitors to the US, where the origins of so-called jaywalking lie in a propaganda campaign by the motor industry in the 1920s.
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Uber and Its Enemies
How taxi cartels resort to desperate measures to kill innovation and save their crumbling industry.
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California court: Drivers can read cellphone maps
Drivers in California can legally read a map on their hand-held cellphones while behind the wheel, a state appeals court ruled Thursday. The 5th District Court of Appeal reversed the case of a Fresno man who was ticketed in January 2012 for looking at a map on his iPhone 4 while stuck in traffic. The driver, Steven Spriggs, challenged the $165 fine and won.
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Why Cars Will Kill 30,000 Americans This Year
There’s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you’re sober, chances are you’ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter. Over the past hundred years, as automobiles have been woven into the fabric of our daily lives, our legal system has undermined public safety, and we’ve been collectively trained to think of these deaths as unavoidable “accidents” or acts of God.
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Cars could soon monitor our EMOTIONS: Device reads facial expressions to prevent road rage
Car manufacturers are always looking for ways to make driving safer. And in the future, dashboard emotion detectors could search for signs of irritation in a bid to identify the first signs of road rage. A prototype of the device is able to read a driver’s facial expressions using a tiny embedded camera.
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In-Car Facial Recognition Could Deter Road Rage
Slow drivers, tailgaters, lane cutters — they’re all fuel for road rage. While motorists may feel justified slamming the steering wheel, flipping the bird or swearing a blue streak, this kind of irritation makes drivers more aggressive and less attentive.
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Judge rules flashing headlights is free speech in Oregon case
Hauling a truckload of logs to a Southern Oregon mill last fall, Chris Hill noticed a sheriff's deputy behind him and flashed his lights to warn a UPS driver coming the other way. The deputy pulled over Hill on U.S. Highway 140 in White City and handed him a $260 ticket for improperly using his headlights, saying another deputy had seen the flashing lights from behind the UPS truck and alerted him to stop the log truck because of the signaling.
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