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Will Uber Destroy the Driving Profession?
On a recent trip to Washington, D.C., I booked a ride through Uber, the popular ride-sharing network. My driver was a retired social worker. He told me that he’d gone to work for Uber after eight fruitless months pursuing an official taxi license. Uber had approved his application within a few days.
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“It’s All Tied to One Decision”
The SAAQ is launching a new ad campaign to remind individuals of the many serious legal and financial consequences of drinking and driving. The messages encourage people who have been drinking to think before taking the wheel.
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Mercedes' semi-autonomous truck lets its driver relax on the highway
If you've ever driven a highway on a major trip, you know how monotonous it can get -- and it only gets worse for big rig operators, who may spend every day on those uneventful roads. Mercedes-Benz may eventually let those long-haul drivers make better use of their time, though. It just recently demonstrated Future Truck 2025, a semi-autonomous concept vehicle that takes the reins on the highway.
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What 4x4's want to do in traffic
What 4x4's want to do in traffic, but it would be frowned upon
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Drivers Get Screwed Over Constantly in America
In order to legally operate a motor vehicle on public roads in the US today, citizens must abide an astonishing array of affronts to even the most basic concepts of civil liberty.
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Insurance scam turns nasty for this guy
He forgot the golden rule -the driver of the car must know you are lying in front of their car
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Self-Driving Cars Will Mean More Traffic
A future based on driverless cars could mean big changes to the way cities are shaped. Given that there are plenty of things wrong with our relationship to cars today, it’s tempting to fantasize about how much better things would be be once self-driving vehicles become the norm.
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Epic Old Man - Traffic Jam Prank
A gang of seniors are headed on the way to their corner store, but they're so unbelivably slow that they cause a traffic mayhem. Even the most patient driver in the world can't help but get frustrated at how long it takes them to cross the street!
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The Epic Driftmob feat. BMW M235i
Is it possible to make a drift-choreography in a rotary traffic? We took some hollywood stunt driver and added the same amount of BMW M235i cars. The result: About 90 seconds of driving pleasure and smoking tyres.
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Demented riders SA accident *PG advised*
Demented Riders SA on a ride to Harties when a car from the oncoming swerves into our lane hitting a car in front of us then coming to a stop in our lane. The driver of the car insisted that the accident was our fault!
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Robo-cars, Uber Will Save Us Billions, Keep Us From Crashing And Put An End To Waiting At The DMV
One of the great American rites of passage has been the teenager earning his or her driver’s license. Nearly everyone went through some version of a parent trying to teach them to operate the family car, the trepidation of taking the driving test and the subsequent few years, where statistically you were disturbing likely to kill yourself or someone else.
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With Lyft Line, Passengers Can Split Fares For Shared Rides
On-demand ride-sharing startup Lyft is launching a new product in San Francisco today that it hopes will get more people using its service. Called Lyft Line, the product is designed to lower costs for passengers by having multiple people ride together when they share a common route.
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Third Person Driving with a Drone
A filming drone, video goggles, a Mazda MX-5 Miata and a disused airfield. Paul and Oli compete to answer the question: can you drive in a third person view? The stunts in this video were performed by trained drivers on a closed course. Do not try this at home.
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Uber-nasty? Staff submits 5,560 fake ride requests
Uber is using a pattern of aggressive and questionable tactics in its effort to control the car-on-demand market, according to rivals. New data provided by Lyft, a competitor, shows that Uber employees have ordered and canceled more than 5,000 Lyft rides since last October. The data was provided to CNNMoney per a request made when reporting another story on the competition between the two companies.
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No, no, no, no... Whew! .........Wait NO!
I'm not sure what was going on with this driver.
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Car Insurer Unveils Plans For "Pink Zones," So Male Drivers Don't Kill All The Women
Female focused car insurer Sheilas’ Wheels has recognised the need to make UK roads safer for women drivers and have identified PinkZones, a concept that would see separate lanes for female drivers on UK roads, as a potential vision of the future.
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Get Ready To Say Goodbye To The Traffic Light
The traffic light turned 100 years old this month. At the rate things are going, though, it seems unlikely to survive another century. It might not even make it past the next decade.
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Uber Is Currently Fighting the Battle That Jitneys Lost 100 Years Ago
The mid-1910s saw an explosion of people driving unlicensed cabs. They were called jitneys (slang for a nickel, which was also what they typically cost) and cities across the U.S. scrambled to regulate them. Today, cities around the world are struggling to regulate modern-day jitney coordination companies—ride-sharing apps like Uber and Lyft.
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A new strategy for taxi apps: banning men
Taxi apps are locked in bloodthirsty competition, and it's hard for a new business to break in. But The New York Times is reporting on a new and unique angle on the business: banning men. The app is called SheTaxis, currently operating in New York, Long Island and Westchester County with all female drivers and all female customers. It's a feature neither Uber nor Lyft is offering, and it turns out to be something a lot of customers are willing to pay for.
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San Diego Cabbies Cry Foul Over Body Odor Test
Body odor is among 52 criteria that officials at San Diego International Airport use to judge taxi drivers. Cabbies say that smacks of prejudice and discrimination. For years, inspectors with the San Diego Regional Airport Authority run down their checklist for each cabbie — proof of insurance, functioning windshield wipers, adequate tire treads, good brakes. Drivers are graded pass, fail or needs fixing.
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