Mismatched Bumpers on Cars and SUVs Result in Costly Repairs
2 Dec 2010, 13:23 UTC · By: Andrei Costea / The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) conducted crash tests to demonstrate that the mismatch of bumpers on cars and SUVs can lead to higher repair costs, despite the bumpers being a car&...
Women Dig Men with Porsches. Duh...!
21 Nov 2010, 11:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're back, ladies and gents, with yet another “in your face” type of study. You know, those type of endeavors devised, executed and published by individuals and organizations and w...
Drivers Like Speeding on Motorways
27 Oct 2010, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Duh! You gotta love those researchers with a lot of spare time on their hands. So much spare time, that they keep on bombarding us with studies and surveys about the most obvious behavioral patterns...
Careless Women Drivers... And Men Even More So...
25 Oct 2010, 13:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / How many studies does this world need to get it through its head that people like cars, like buying them, like watching them, like making the paint on them shine, but rarely bother to look under the...
Speed Cameras Save Lives, Study Shows
6 Oct 2010, 14:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Perhaps one of the most dreaded contraptions on public roads, the speed cameras, have fallen right into the path of angry motorists in recent years. Because they are more and more diverse in nature ...
Segways NOT that Cool, Injuries on the Rise
29 Sep 2010, 11:59 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Just hours after the news that multi-millionaire Jimi Heselden died in a Segway accident hit the media, the specialists at the George Washington Hospital in Washington D.C. have released a report th...
Drivers Unwillingly Break the Speed Limit
26 Sep 2010, 08:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / How many times have you found yourself traveling much faster than the posted speed limit on a certain portion of a road? Quite a few times, right? Now try and remember how many times you broke the s...
Video Games Help the Brain Make Quick Decisions
22 Sep 2010, 07:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Tired of your parents telling you to stop playing Grand Theft Auto IV, Need for Speed or other video games you like playing a lot more than learning? Here's the solution. Why don't show yo...
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...
U.S. Loses $99Bn a Year in Crashes
30 Aug 2010, 13:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The cost of traffic accidents in the US has been calculated by the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention as reaching an average of $500 fo...
Asking for Directions Helps Save $3,000/Year
30 Aug 2010, 12:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are already countless studies made all over the world highlighting the ways in which people tend to their driving, including how many men ask for directions, how many don't, why, how many...
Women Leave Their Cars Unwashed Longer than Men
21 Jul 2010, 09:17 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The somewhat controversial positions taken by many regarding men vs. women drivers have reached the apogee with the latest findings from a British online car retailer. Autoquake has recently conduct...
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...
Most In-Car Fighting Caused by Directions
19 Jul 2010, 13:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We've seen up until now the results of countless studies which tried to figure out what people do most while behind the wheel, except for driving, of course. But never, until this moment, did w...
Volvo Truck Drivers Take Part in Major Safety Study
29 Jun 2010, 10:39 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The EuroFOT (European Field Operational Test) project is looking to gather information on how truck drivers behave in various traffic situation and how is this assisted by the truck's on-board ...
Adults Text as Much as Teenagers
21 Jun 2010, 08:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As the US offensive to ban texting nationwide continues, studies on the subject keep on pouring in, showing results on anything from what people text while behind the wheel to who is more prone to t...
Ladies Love the Volkswagen Beetle
16 Jun 2010, 10:06 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / Don’t get too excited guys, as this is not for those of you who own a Beetle. Women are not attracted to men behind the wheel of VW’s new Bug, but would rather see themselves driving one...
Drivers Want Audio Messages Sent to Vehicles, Study Shows
15 Jun 2010, 10:36 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / A recent study conducted by Synovate Motoresearch on behalf of telematics services provider ATX Group revealed that more and more drivers want recall notices or information related to vehicle mainte...
Weed and Driving Do Mix
14 Jun 2010, 10:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Legalize it! (in places where it's not legal already, that is...) This catch phrase may pick up speed once again, after the Hartford Hospital and the University of Iowa Carver College of Medici...
One Fifth of All Cars Could Sell Online by 2015
3 Jun 2010, 10:51 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / According to a British web management company for the automotive sector, GForces, about twenty percent of all UK car sales will be conducted online within five years. According to GForces, the entir...