New Diesel Engines Don’t Increase Lung Cancer Risks, Study Says
27 Jan 2015, 17:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / New study says that the new generation high-efficiency diesel engines represent not much of a cancer-inducing risk anymore
Best Cars to Buy Used Over New in the US
23 Jan 2015, 16:43 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Ownership is a knife with two edges to be completely frank. On one hand you’re there, behind the wheel of your spanking brand new ride, getting acquainted with the onboard gadgets, the unique ...
UK Motorists Fear Garage Practices, Prefer To Drive With Faults
22 Jan 2015, 13:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Are there too many cars on the road these days that develop so many problems they determine mechanics carry out fast, lousy repair jobs? Can’t really find an answer to that right now, but trut...
Americans Are Driving More than Some Claim
21 Jan 2015, 17:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There’s an overall hype in the auto industry saying that people are not driving that much anymore, especially teens who seem to be not interested in getting their license as fast. Well, Americ...
Old Cars Putting Teen Drivers at Higher Death Risk, Study Says
22 Dec 2014, 10:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / So your son/daughter just passed the driver exam and it’s time for a first car. Better choose carefully, because the older it is, the higher the injury rate gets for the beginner motorist. ...
Electric Vehicles Are No Greener than Gasoline Ones, Study Says
16 Dec 2014, 13:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / All you owning electric vehicles and bragging to everyone about how you help saving the planet and all, they’re useless. Well, not totally useless... but it depends how you charge them, or els...
Collision-Avoidance Systems Have Bugs, Discovered by AAA
10 Dec 2014, 09:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Technology is moving fast these days and found its way faster on cars, where you now have most features operated using electronic circuits backed up by sensors and algorithms. The whole car became s...
Shipworms To Reveal Secrets of Making Biofuel
25 Nov 2014, 13:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Shipworms are quite odd sea living creatures to start with. First of all, they’re not actually worms, but mollusks and they feed on wood, hence their name coming from eating their way through ...
Study: Recalls Don't Affect Only Cars, But Your Time As Well
23 Nov 2014, 08:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you've been watching the news lately, you might've heard how big a mess-up there is in the United States with all those faulty vehicles called back to dealership service departments for...
Google Bus Takes an Internet Ride Across Bangladesh
13 Nov 2014, 13:17 UTC · By: Ionut Ungureanu / Google has just unveiled their latest project held in the emerging South Asian country Bangladesh. Called Google Bus, the company is literally taking to the road to promote the possibilities of conn...
Free Wi-Fi on Buses and Trains Could Turn More People towards Mass Transportation
5 Nov 2014, 10:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What would you prefer to do on you way to work? Stare at stoplights and burn fuel aimlessly or browse the Internet while being “chauffeured” to your destination? Some, prefer to combine ...
Google Glass Texting While Driving Is Almost As Dangerous as Using a Phone
29 Sep 2014, 09:12 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You’re probably thinking that Google Glass will help you a lot with staying in touch with friends while driving and still be safe. Well, you’re somehow wrong as a study reveals the devic...
Massachusetts Drivers Named Worst in the United States in Allstate Report
27 Aug 2014, 18:41 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Allstate Insurance has realeased its 10th Best Driver's Report to date and we have bad news for Massachusetts motorists. Boston shouldn't worry. In fact, Worcester drivers are 134.8 percen...
Riding the Metro Makes You Lose Weight, Study Says
25 Aug 2014, 10:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It seems that Captain Obvious is back in business and probably works with some British scientists, because the latest news he brings us are related to public transport use that makes you fitter. ...
Newspapers Can Be Turned into Biofuel Now
21 Aug 2014, 09:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The pleasure of flipping through a newspaper in the morning with a coffee next to you is slowly dying as most news are now more actively thrown at people via electronic devices. The fact that the ne...
Study Says 100-Mile Range EVs Are What You Need
20 Aug 2014, 10:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / It’s in the human nature to always want more and more. We started with cars that had a few horsepower and everyone now wants one that has at least 150 of them to feel at least OK. Same goes fo...
Over 85 Percent of Motorists Disqualified from Driving are Men, Study Shows
14 Aug 2014, 12:01 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / According to figures supplied by the U.K.'s Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, the Institute of Advanced Motorists found that male drivers aged 20 - 30 are the most common group to lose their...
British Drivers are Against Autonomous Cars on Public Roads, Study Shows
13 Aug 2014, 13:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Over the past 15 years, the upper end of the automotive world has given us driver aids and active safety technologies that were once regarded as science fiction as the quirky telephone box used by D...
Western Europe Car Sales Up 5 Percent This July
8 Aug 2014, 11:28 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / LMC Automotive, a company specialized in providing auto industry intelligence, has released a report according to which sales in Western Europe hiked in July to a little over 1 million vehicles. Yea...
Taking a Selfie While Driving: One in Four Young Drivers Did It, Study Shows
8 Aug 2014, 09:12 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Back in 1839, Robert Cornelius took the world's first selfie. Fast-forward 165 years or so and #selfie first appears on Flickr in the year 2004. The stupidness has gotten way out of hand in 201...