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Technology that prevents a drunken driver from starting a vehicle holds the promise of greatly reducing alcohol-related deaths, the government and auto safety groups said Wednesday.
A city police officer who recently received an award from Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been charged with drunken driving, authorities said.
A senior police officer tasked with promoting road safety has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk — the most high-profile arrest in a nationwide crackdown on the once-widespread practice in Ireland.
A man told police not to blame him for crashing his truck into a light post — it was that unicorn behind the wheel. Prosecutor Ingrid Rosenquist said Phillip C. Holliday Jr. initially denied driving the truck involved in the March 7 crash in Billings. He told officers at the scene that a unicorn was driving, she said.
Toyota Motor Corp. is developing a fail-safe system for cars that detects drunken drivers and automatically shuts the vehicle down if sensors pick up signs of excessive alcohol consumption, a news report said Wednesday.
New technology such as alcohol-detecting devices in cars may hold the key to eliminating drunken driving, according to a campaign begun Monday by Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
A 15-year-old girl accidentally struck and killed her mother while being taught how to parallel park, police said.
Bill Healy held the future in his pocket. The senior vice president of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. whipped out a tiny hard drive about the size of a Wheat Thin. The drive's label claimed a capacity of 1,000 gigabytes — more than 100 times greater than today's models that can hold 8,000 photos or 2,000 songs.
NASCAR driver Kyle Busch pleaded guilty Tuesday to improper driving and was fined $150.
One of the things that are most annoying when driving a car through traffic is aggressive driving behavior. This behavior often results in an angry feeling and the urge to correct the driver that offended you or did something you believe is endangering you.
Perhaps the most unique tool of mapping is the users ability to alter any route the computer shows. If you want to drive a different route all you need to do is drag and drop the route trail to a different location. Many times you want to go to alternate locations on your route...
Proper shoes for driving are a very important element in safety on the road.
New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer has started a major political fight over immigration by ordering state officials to issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens, prompting at least one county legislature to defy the executive order and pushing toward a showdown in court.
There is apparently video of an incident where it looks like Britney Spears ran over the foot of a paparazzo. More details after the jump.
An international working group of 11 researchers from six countries will recommend that Driving Under the Influence of Drugs (DUID) laws aimed at marijuana users adopt a limit of a set amount of THC in the bloodstream instead of relying on a zero tolerance approach that criminali …
Excellent article that goes into the two most important aspects of buying a car for your teenager: getting a good deal and keeping them alive. I've seen stuff on both before, but never together in one car buying article. Good stuff.
Two stories in The Times on Tuesday, only three pages apart, told a similar tale. One with obvious comic implications, the other with tragic ones. Both were about dealing with modern teenagers, and both were about cars.
NEW cars in American showrooms this autumn are more fuel-efficient than they've been in 20 years. On average, they get nearly 2% more miles per gallon than new cars did in 2004—America's worst year for gas guzzling since the country's fuel-economy figures peaked in 1987.
"I live in a country where people drive like maniacs. It's a fascinating phenomenon, because the natives are pretty passive people. Ok, maybe they're a little more passive-aggressive than just passive, but generally speaking they aren't outwardly aggressive people."
And so the clock starts and the taillights flare, and they're off again, strapped down, fueled up, and bound on an outlaw enterprise with 2,795 miles of interstate and some 31,000 highway cops between them and the all-time speed record for crossing the American continent on four …
A Chicago ordinance banning the use of hand-held cellular phones in vehicles has bitten one of its creators.
The British Government now want 20mph speed limits in all built up areas in the country. They want to police this new policy by installing hundreds, possibly thousands, of new surveillance cameras in built up areas.
That is one of the most badass stories I've ever heard in my life. I can't imagine, for one thing, jumping a bike with no ramp. I'd figure that's just impossible. And another thing: jumping what is pretty much a scooter is flat out ridiculous.
Seattle is a city that has some very strange traditions and phenomena regarding traffic rules that natives delight in attempting to explain to visitors.
It's statistically safer to be around an experienced driver who is traveling ten miles over the speed limit on an interstate highway in good weather and light traffic, than to be near a distracted teenager driving home from the mall - a few miles under the speed limit, perhaps, b …
An 11-year-old boy and his parents have been arrested after he fled Louisiana police in a car chase at speeds of more than 100mph (160km/h), it is reported.
The chase started at 6:30 a.m. Friday on Interstate 310 on the outskirts of New Orleans when a state trooper recorded a sport utility vehicle going 130 km/h in a 100-km/h zone, Piglia said.
The great nanny state digs its claws even deeper this week with new legislation that clamps down on the British driver yet again. So, what is this new legislation that the guileless motorists now need in order to save them from themselves in this dangerous place we call our homel …
In the UK you can now purchase your Road Fund License (Vehicle Tax Duty) on-line. Unfortunately, this is not quite as progressive as it first seems.
Holiday destinations are often a far distance from town and many people enjoy motoring adventures that involve long hours behind the wheel. However, very often driving on rural roads leads to death when their car leaves the road and rolls or hits something hard.
Nowadays a simple trip downtown often turns into a frustrating and exhausting adventure. Impossible parking, countless red lights, never-ending construction, and the constant threat of car theft can change even mild and polite person into a malicious and gloomy beast.
The main trouble with writing articles about driving skills is that the best way to learn about driving is to do despite reading various articles. However, it is always better to be armed with theoretical information before starting to learn something practically.
From a taboo about which there could be no open discussion, a woman's right to drive is developing into a topic of growing and lively debate in Saudi Arabia.
The publication of the latest edition of the Highway Code, the first new version for eight years, comes almost 80 years after the booklet first advised UK motorists on road use.
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