In the early 1980s, many studies conducted suggested that driver’s education classes made no difference in teen traffic accidents and tickets. As state school budgets shrank, stats from those studies were used as justification to cut driver’s ed classes from the curriculum in high schools around the country. Some insurance companies have even stopped giving…
The second day of Formula One in-season tests in Hungary is over. Because F1 rules dictate two of the four test days for the year must be given over to non-F1 drivers, and because most teams opted to run their current race drivers at the previous test in Bahrain, many new, lesser-known drivers were present…
Middle-aged drivers are at a higher risk of a fatal crash than drivers well into their golden years. According to a recent study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, drivers in their 70s posted lower crash rates than middle-aged drivers thanks to innovations in vehicle safety and technology. But that’s not all the senior…
Fernando Alonso’s McLaren on top of Charles Leclerc’s Sauber Ferrari looked quickest all weekend, but rain in the final qualifying session played to Mercedes’ strengths and Sebastian Vettel was only able to start second on the grid. Lewis Hamilton couldn’t keep him behind for long, though — the moment they got on the Kemmel Straight,…
Photo: byronv2 Well, the electric vehicle market has not exploded the way that former President Obama predicted back in 2011. While electric and plug-in hybrid vehicle sales have steadily grown under the help of the federal tax credit system, they have certainly not reached the 1 million EVs on the road goal that was described…
The 2014 Chevy Silverado is one of the latest models to be recalled by GM in March. To General Motors, vehicle recalls for safety-related issues may well be the equivalent of Pringles: “Once you pop, you can’t stop.” Except in this case, their reward is not the salty goodness of potato chips, but rather the…
Photo: FORMULA 1 | YouTube The second and final week of pre-season testing for the 2019 Formula One World Championship is over, which means we now have just speculation, rumors, and driver quotes to fuel our two-week wait for the season to start officially in Melbourne, Australia. Lewis Hamilton ended the second week having completed…
Drowsy driving might be more dangerous than originally thought Photo:AAA By now, the risks of drunk driving are rather well known and recognized, although the importance of preventing drunk driving cannot be overstated. Still, there are several other, often unmentioned, conditions and states of mind that can make operating a vehicle extremely dangerous. Take, for…
Mazda has for some time been trying hard to push its way upmarket. Particularly, it has been working on this with the strength of its engineering and design, both of which have earned it a particularly interesting distinction. Speaking of Interesting: Check out the sleek and fun 2017 Mazda3 Every single one of its vehicles…
Let’s talk about language for a moment. We all know that the words we choose are influenced by what we think about whatever we are talking about. For example, if you are at your mother’s house for dinner, whether you describe the steaks as “burned” or “well-done” reflects whether you liked it or not, as…
Photo: mohamed hassan via CC This should go without saying, but there’s nothing even remotely amusing about car crashes. According to Driver Knowledge, 6 million people experience crashes every year, and more than 90 people die every day in car-related incidents. For all of the tragedy these figures represent, they can spur on creativity. Some…
Photo: Ford Motor Company Ford has launched a new ad campaign promoting the 2020 Ford Explorer as the greatest exploration vehicle of all time. To help drive this point home, the commercials juxtapose exploration of the vast reaches of space, the deepest depths of the ocean, and the most treacherous climates on the planet with…
There’s no denying that the MINI Cooper is one cool car. From its retro looks to its customizability, anyone driving a MINI Cooper automatically gains points for being awesome. But there are always those people who take it too far. This was the case with some clever soul who decided that it would be a…
GM’s self-driving Chevy Bolt Photo: Digital Trends Any time a self-driving vehicle gets into a crash, the incident becomes the object of great scrutiny – the state of California even requires operators of self-driving test fleets like Google and GM to report every single collision, no matter how minor. Up until now, the few crashes…
In general, I have always liked Orlando Bloom well enough. Like most people, I mostly knew him lately from his roles in the various Lord of the Rings movies or the Pirates of the Caribbean series, but I now know something about him that I never had before: if put behind the wheel of an…
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