Eating while Driving Deadlier than Using the Phone
7 May 2012, 12:28 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / In an effort to make people aware of the dangers of doing, well, anything while driving, apart from driving, the University of Leeds has recently published a study called “Two Hands Better Tha...
Reversing Car Hits Pedestrian on the Crosswalk
30 Apr 2012, 14:03 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / Apparently, pedestrians in Russia have a very hard time. The kid shown in this video is attempting to cross the road (properly - on a crosswalk) and not only is he forced to stand in the street to w...
Is Wearing Headphones while Driving Legal in the US?
30 Apr 2012, 11:43 UTC · By: Andrei Nedelea / One tends to see many people driving around while wearing headphones, yet very few people ask themselves whether or not it is legal. The short answer is ‘it depends’ on which state you&r...
Audi Interactive Youtube Driving Video Game
7 Oct 2011, 16:11 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Your bank account isn’t quite large enough to accomodate a 2012 Audi A6? Your computer won’t let you play the upcoming Forza 4 or NFS: The Run? No problemo! Audi has a solution for all t...
Left Foot Braking - Rules Are Made to Be Broken
7 Jul 2011, 14:43 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Hello and welcome to driving school. This is your first day in the car and we shall start by familiarizing you with its controls. [...] The pedals: you will only use your left foot to operate the cl...
Top Teen Driver Safety Campaigns of the Year Announced
31 May 2011, 16:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With more and more emphasis being placed on educating the young drivers about the proper way to act and react behind the wheel, the naming of the top ten most interesting and effective driver safety...
Driver Busted for Speeding While Using Two Phones
30 May 2011, 05:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Talk about multi-tasking... A British driver took the entire use of cell phone while behind the wheel debate to a whole new level last week, after he got caught speeding at 110 km/h (68 mph) while u...
April, Distracted Driving Awareness Month – How Distracted Are You?
30 Mar 2011, 08:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / April is, for the first time in history, the National Distracted Driving Awareness Month in the US. A month that represents the struggle of a nation to take its eyes and hands off the screen of the ...
Repeat Drunk Drivers to Have the Cars Seized
24 Mar 2011, 14:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Drunk driving is a phenomenon that plagues the automotive world ever since the first set of four wheels turned, in unison, for the very first time. Since then, governments, organizations and law enf...
Distracted Driving Overrated, Say Young Drivers
9 Mar 2011, 18:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A new proof that Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's epidemic speech on distracted driving is not pure rhetoric comes this week via Consumer Reports, who conducted a poll on the subject on yo...
Faces of Distracted Driving: Miss South Dakota
8 Mar 2011, 12:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the start of the anti-distracted driving campaign sometime last year, we've seen all types of manifestations of the push to rid the nation of what Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood...
Mind Controlled Car, Just Around the Dark Corner
23 Feb 2011, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / BrainDriver, they call it, even if it's not a driver, but a car. A very special one, packed with enough gadgetry to make the NASA labs look like antiques. All right, so that's a bit of an ...
Toyota Has High Driving Expectations of Teens
11 Feb 2011, 14:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Distracted driving has been last year one of the major topics of discussion in the US. Countless experts had their say, Transportation Secretary cried “plague” on TV, car makers rallied ...
Ford Launches Driving Skills for Life Program
10 Feb 2011, 06:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Taking its role as a leading car manufacturer on the global market in general and on the US one in particular seriously, Ford announced today the launch of the Driving Skills for Life program, an en...
People Avoid Driving at Night
25 Oct 2010, 05:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Unsurprising, we know... A new study, commissioned by automotive lighting supplier Sylvania and conducted by KRC Research has found that a little over half of the American citizens licensed to drive...
Motorists Afraid of Texting But Admit Doing It
20 Sep 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Thank you for stating the obvious! 88 percent of motorists included in the 2010 Traffic Safety Culture Index study released today by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety think that texting and emai...
Parking Sensors for Cops with No Parking Skills
31 Aug 2010, 14:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Having all those flashy lights and the annoying sounds fitted to the car is a clear indication that you are a police man, but by no means driving a police car is a clear indication that you are a go...
Woman Drowns While Driving and Talking on the Phone
17 Aug 2010, 19:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If there was any need for yet another proof that talking on the phone while driving can kill you, than this is it. 47-year old Kathleen Gomez Collier drove her Ford Expedition right into the Sacrame...
Men Feel They Drive Better than Women
21 Jul 2010, 05:07 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Of course, the above statement is not something most of us didn't intuitively know already, but this time we have proof. A study conducted by OnePoll.com found that men are pretty much scared w...
Soon to Be Possible: Blind People Behind the Wheel!
4 Jul 2010, 16:05 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Sensors and systems that eliminate blind spots and inform drivers about certain obstacles or dangers that might appear at one point while driving might set the basis of a brand new concept that woul...