Utah 80 MPH Speed Limit Increase Leads to Fewer Highway Crashes
9 Dec 2014, 10:27 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When petrolheads like us argue about what is the best highway in the United States, I have a sneaking suspicion most of us would answer US Route 50. Stretching 3,008 miles (4,841 km) from Ocean City...
Idaho, Wyoming to Allow 80 MPH Speed Limit
24 Mar 2014, 11:07 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Idaho and Wyoming will become the third and fourth American states to bump speed limits on their interstates to 80 miles per hour (128.7 km/h). Last week, Wyoming Governor Matt Mead signed a bill...
Australian Senator Proposes Motorist-Set Speed Limits
21 Jan 2014, 14:24 UTC · By: Liana Nastase / When it comes to speed limits, there have always been contradictions and people that find them absurd while others find them acceptable. Still, there are certain people that believe a new system wou...
Illinois Interstate Increases Speed Limit to 70 MPH
21 Aug 2013, 11:22 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Illinois’ rural interstates will have their speed limit increased from 65 miles per hour to 70 miles per hour as of January 2014, when a new law signed by Governor Pat Quinn will come into eff...
Autobahn Speed Limits Proposed: 130 km/h
19 Jul 2012, 11:24 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Germany as a mecca of speed is in serious problems right now. The famous Nurburgring track has officially been declared bankrupt, and now the place where normal people can max out there cars is in d...
Speederaser Cruise Control Android App Released
4 Nov 2011, 12:01 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We’ve always been supporters of brining limitations to “there’s an app for everything idea” and we now have a new occasion to bring this forth again, as a developer called Ce...
Texas Raises Speed Limit to 85 mph, Drops Nighttime Limit
5 Sep 2011, 06:49 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Speed limits have always been an issue. Allow people to go too fast and there will be blood. Impose a very strict limit and you’ll make the automobile useless. Really, it’s hard to keep ...
U.K. Young Drivers Need Training to Avoid Crashes, According to IAM
25 Aug 2011, 11:52 UTC · By: Dragos Serban / According to the Institute of Advanced Motorists, young drivers are 15 percent more likely to crash than older drivers due to their lack of experience. The IAM’s report shows the under-20 driv...
Do You Know What the Speed Limit Is in NY?
16 May 2011, 11:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A very crowded city, tons of nationalities and an equal number of approaches to driving collide each day on the streets of the Big Apple. At times, that collision is only a figure of speech, but eve...
Low Emissions Push Turns into Autobahn Speed Limits
8 Apr 2011, 09:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Sometime in the last week of March, we all heard about a plan the European Union has of making internal combustion powered cars a thing of the past in the continent's major cities, and replace...
85 MPH New Speed Limit for Texas
8 Apr 2011, 08:06 UTC · By: Cosmin Voicu / At this very moment, Texas has more than 520 miles (836 km) of interstate highways where the speed limit is 80 mph (128 km/h), but things are about to change. In the aforementioned state, the speed ...
AA DriveTech Launches New Fuel-Saving Course for Fleet Customers
24 Mar 2011, 12:38 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Despite the fact the the British Chancellor cut fuel duties yesterday, the average cost of fuel in the country should stay above £6 per gallon, so the average business is facing difficult cond...
FIA Introduces Safety Car Rule Amendment
8 Mar 2011, 15:36 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / FIA has just announced that following a meeting of the World Motor Sport Council in Paris today it has decided to introduce a new amendment to the safety car speed limit rule. In just a few words, c...
Spain Cuts Speed Limit Due to Oil Crisis
8 Mar 2011, 08:18 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / The oil crisis in Lybia and in the Arab region not only that raised petrol prices in most countries across the globe, but also made authorities take at least curious decision. The Spanish government...
Road Colors for Speed Limits in Abu Dhabi
4 Jan 2011, 07:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What better way to announce new traffic rules or speed limits than apply some sorts of “in your face” strategy. Road signs could do the job but, as we all know, at times they are not eno...
Valentino Rossi Gets Unusual Recognition
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Dragos Rusu / Everybody agrees that bike rider Valentino Rossi is very good at what he does. Even movie superstar Brad Pitt was quoted as saying that he'd give anything to be like the sassy Italian and prais...
Almost Half of All UK Speed Cameras Are Turned Off
21 Nov 2012, 14:06 UTC · By: Madalina Iancu / Good news for road-hogs in Great Britain! You can easily exceed the speed limit and receive no speeding ticket on the condition you guess which cameras are not in use. As the British police admits, ...
BMW Speed Limit to Be Launched in Australia
30 Jul 2010, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / German manufacturer BMW announced this week it will bring the Speed Limit technology onto the Australian market. The system is used to inform the driver of the maximum permissible speed at all times...
Petrov Gets EUR7,000 Speeding Fine in Australia
26 Mar 2010, 11:30 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / Earlier today, we have reported to you that the Australian Grand Prix organizers have proceeded to dropping the pit lane speed limit from 100 kph (approximately 62 mph) to 60 kph (approximately 37 m...
Australian GP Organizers Bring Pit Lane Speed to 60 kph
26 Mar 2010, 09:22 UTC · By: Ovidiu Panzariu / The 2010 Australian Grand Prix will present the drivers with yet another new rule, this time linked with pit lane speed. According to a statement from the Aussie organizers, the speed limit in the p...