It looks like the smart car is reaping benefits for Daimler already. The vehicle has already sold over 16 thousand units in little over half a year. Overall sales for Daimler are up, and are at a .5% increase over this time last year. So it is really starting to look like smart car production [...]
I hope that this study just pertains to British cars, but I’m certain that it does not exclude us in reality. It seems that a recent study by British scientists discovered that the average U.K car is something like a cross between a used Pamela Anderson tissue, and the underside of a sewage treatment plant [...]
I have long held a theory that men and women are equally bad drivers, just in different ways. I think of men as being reckless. A man’s accident involves driving 100mph down the wrong lane, side swiping an ambulance, while barrel rolling past a stopped school bus (all likely to impress a female.) These are [...]
Small cars are making a comeback, and rightly so, but they are also a massive cost liability in low speed collisions. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety is reporting that several small cars can rack up some big costs in little accidents. The cars that performed the worst in the low speed crash [...]
If you follow this blog at all you realize by now that I have a bone to pick with the U.S. auto industry. They are inefficient, poorly managed, produce horrid products, and suck money out of our economy to boot. In the latest turn of events Chrysler vice chairman Jim Press stated that [...]
Listen up Jewel. Alaska just banned all texting while operating a motor vehicle. So if you are doing any type of auto transport in Alaska, you are going to have to wait to send that text…so you don’t have to make a phone call…and make human contact. The law reads as follows according to drivinglaws.org:
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A recent plea by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety asks that states raise the minimum driving age from 16 to 17. The argument comes from studies that suggest, well, to put it bluntly:16 year-olds kill themselves a lot while driving. The study highlighted the mortality rates of 16 and 17 year-old drivers in [...]
From first hand experience I can tell you that Hispanics make up a disproportionately large quantity of drunk drivers. In my time as a Police Officer, almost every DWI I encountered was a Hispanic, but why? MADD has recently attempted to address this issue. The Dallas News is reporting:
Statistics show about 47 [...]
I don’t know about you, but I live in an area with lots of urban sprawl. It seems like no one lives in the city they work in anymore. This doesn’t seem like much of an issue, but when you have hundreds of thousands of people clogging the same two roads into the city in [...]
Chrysler is fighting to have a tax credit given for a line of low speed, all electric, autos. Apparently their is some debate over whether the vehicles that Chrysler is working towards getting the tax breaks for are new-enough technology. According to CNN:
David Friedman, research director at the Union of Concerned Scientists Clean Vehicles [...]
