Driving
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When it comes to slowing down drivers, conventional wisdom requires police to issue citations, which ultimately lead to points against a drivers license and points against your automobile insurance. Rack up enough license points, and you lose your ability to legally operate a motor vehicle. Accumulate enough insurance points, and your car insurance becomes prohibitively expensive or gets cancelled. That’s all the incentive most of us need to drive within a reasonable approximation of the posted speed limit. Some, however, drive with utter disregard for speed limits, despite the risk of...
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Chevy Wants To Teach You The Joy Of Rowing Your Own Gears
After years of declining market share, sales of manual transmission cars are oddly on the rise. Take Chevy’s compact Sonic, for example: something like one-in-five leave the dealer’s showroom with a manual transmission. Just a few decades back, learning to drive a manual transmission...
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Don't Fine Drivers For Speeding - Pay Them To Obey Limits
Behavioral psychology tells us that there are two ways to modify human or animal behavior. Negative reinforcement, as the name implies, generally involves something unpleasant in reaction to an undesired behavior. Positive reinforcement involves some sort of reward for acting as desired. Generally...
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Here's Why You Pay Attention To Road Debris
We’ve all been there before: one minute, you’re driving down the highway wondering why the band Boston still gets so much airplay, and the next you’re swerving to avoid some bit of debris narrowly missed by the car in front of you. Sometimes dodging isn’t an option, and a...
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Texas Highway Could Be First In U.S. With 85 MPH Speed Limit
Modern cars are faster, more fuel-efficient, safer and more nimble than their counterparts of decades past, yet modern highway speed limits fail to take this into consideration. Given the poor condition of many U.S. highways, combined with the distracted drivers using them (and the general...
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MINI Shows You The Fastest Way To Parallel Park: Video
Parallel parking is one of the driving skills needed to obtain a driver’s license in most states. Student drivers often spend weeks knocking over cones and garbage cans before perfecting the combination of vehicle positioning and steering angle necessary to produce the desired results. If...
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Building on the success of its "Power on Ice" driving experience, Bentley will bring more temperate driving programs to North America in 2012.
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American Porsche Pilot Breaking Monticello Lap Record, In Stereo: Video
Porsche factory driver Pat Long sets a new record at Monticello Motor Club during his first time driving the track, and the event is caught by a pair of videos.
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On The Road With BMW's Self-Driving Car: Video
BMW has developed its own autonomous car technology, which it insists is for the improvement of existing driver assistance systems.
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Skip Barber 3-Day Mazdaspeed Racing School Review
As you expertly trail-brake your MX-5 Cup car into T11 and get a run on the driver in front of you heading up the hill on the front straight at Laguna Seca, you have just a few seconds to think "shift, aim at the telephone pole, holy hell, I'm really moving--how is this just three days in--BRAKE...
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The Porsche Cayman, Explained: Video
Gordon Robertson, chief driving consultant for Porsche's Experience Center at Silverstone, explains why the Porsche Cayman is one of the best-handling cars in Porsche's current lineup.
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F1 Drivers Can't Drift, And Here's Proof: Video
Jenson Button and former F1 star Mika Häkkinen team up to promote Johnnie Walker's anti-drunk-driving campaign.
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Pennsylvania motorists got an unexpected obstacle on their way to grandmother's house for Thanksgiving: a tanker spilled a partial load of driveway sealer onto the highway.
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Filming Car Commercials Isn't As Easy As You Think: Video
Most people who view car commercials have no idea of how complex, expensive and potentially dangerous they are to film.
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Driver Helps Stranded Motorist, Who Then Saves His Life
If you don’t believe in things like karma or divine intervention, ponder the following story. It starts when Victor Giesbrecht stopped by the side of the road to help a stranded motorist change a flat tire. The car with the flat tire was driven by Sara Berg, who was traveling on I-94 some 70...
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Richard Petty Experience Expands To Include Exotics
After proving that Americans will spend serious money to climb behind the wheel of a stock car, the Richard Petty Experience is expanding to include exotic cars.
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An Android App For... Cruise Control?
App writer Cellurl has created an app that interfaces with your car to act as a cruise control, and we're not sure that's an entirely good idea.
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Could Big Brother Be Watching From Your EZ Pass?
An Austrian company that provides toll transponders to most automated toll systems in the U.S. has just filed a patent for a multifunction camera system to be embedded on future toll transponders.
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A new iPhone app allows you to easily calculate the cost difference between driving and flying to a given location.
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Skip Barber Two-Day High Performance Driving School: Review (Part 3)
For the rest of the details on the Skip Barber High Performance Driving School, visit part one and part two of this review. We pick up with the last two elements, the slalom and the road course. Slalom The slalom might be the simplest of vehicle dynamics tests, but it's also one of the most...
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Skip Barber Two-Day High Performance Driving School: Review (Part 2)
We're back for part two of our review of the Skip Barber Racing School two-day High Performance Driving School, and this time we cover the threshold braking exercises and emergency lane changes. These two exercises are perhaps the most relevant to everyday street driving, as almost everyone is...
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Skip Barber Two-Day High Performance Driving School: Review (Part 1)
Today's supercars, sports cars, and performance sedans are without doubt some of the most impressive bits of machinery humans have ever built, capable of feats of speed and handling that were unthinkable just a decade ago. But it takes a capable driver to get at that performance, and a quality...
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BMW: The Ultimate Driving... App "Social, Mobile Experience"
Some carmakers would have you believe that it's no longer enough to simply drive around in their product, that driving is now a connected experience and one to share with a wider audience than just your passengers. To this end, BMW's new mobile app, "The Ultimate Drive" lets you discover the best...
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GPS Racing: Over 7 Million Brits Try And Beat The Sat Nav
How long will a journey take from point A to point B? To get the answer, many of us will punch the destination into our GPS satellite navigation devices which give us an estimated time of arrival (ETA). However, a new survey thinks that subconsciously trying to beat the displayed ETA could be...
Antony Ingram