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What Your Tire Tread Tells You About Driving Danger
By Phil Villarreal on January 2, 2012 11:30 AM
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Driving on bald tires jeopardizes your own safety on the road, as well as that of everyone around you. Frugal types like to squeeze every mile possible out of their tires, but it's a bad idea to push them to the limit. More »
Drive Through Hoops To Save Money On Insurance
By Phil Villarreal on December 16, 2011 9:45 AM
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Of all the regular costs that dog car owners, liability insurance is among the cruelest. You only get the best rates if you never file claims, so careful drivers end up subsidizing the costs incurred by reckless ones. The best drivers can hope for is to find the lowest rate by shopping around and taking advantage of every discount. More »
NTSB: You Shouldn't Be Using Your Cell Phone While Driving, Even Hands-Free
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 13, 2011 3:00 PM
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The day could be coming when it would be illegal for that girl yapping on her headset in the lane next to you on the freeway to be yapping at all, even on a hands-free cell phone. The National Transportation Board said states should ban all cell phone use for drivers More »
Tips For Keeping Your Tires On The Road During A Rain Storm
By Phil Villarreal on December 8, 2011 11:15 AM
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When roads get wet, the danger level increases significantly. Fast, careless driving can cause you to skid and hydroplane, risking your own life as well as that of anyone who's on the road with you. More »
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Lessons Learned From A DUI
By Phil Villarreal on November 16, 2011 4:00 PM
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Although those who are pulled over for driving drunk seldom realize it at the time, they're incredibly lucky. A fine along with a possible license suspension and jail time are preferable to suffering a car wreck or being charged with aggravated assault or worse for crashing into an innocent victim. More »
What's Worse Than Missing A Cool Text? How About Involuntary Manslaughter?
By Ben Popken on November 2, 2011 5:00 PM
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Pull over if you're driving and need to respond to or send a text message. Otherwise, that witty reply can wait. Because death won't. More »
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Man Drives Honda 1 Million Miles
By Ben Popken on October 25, 2011 11:00 AM
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Honda threw a surprise parade for a Maine car owner who became the first ever documented driver to rack up one million miles on the odometer. He did so behind the wheel of his 1990 Accord, which he's kept running smooth all this time. More »
Don't Yap Or Tap On Your Phone While Teaching Your Kid To Drive
By Laura Northrup on October 20, 2011 11:30 AM
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Teaching your teenage child to drive is an emotionally fraught yet important time. You can instill good driving habits that will see them through the couple of decades we have left before robotic flying cars dominate the market, then eventually enslave us. Or you can set a bad example by whipping out your phone while teaching the finer points of highway merging. Guess which one most American parents choose? More »
Big Drop In Car Crashes Tracks With Blackberry Outage
By Ben Popken on October 18, 2011 4:30 PM
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The big Blackberry outage is having an unexpected positive side-benefit. During the days the Blackberry service was out, there's been far fewer traffic accidents. More »
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Could Bad Economy Be Responsible For Drop In Drunk Driving?
By Phil Villarreal on October 5, 2011 9:45 AM
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To be able to terrorize the roads as a drunk driver, you need to be able to afford both a vehicle and booze, and those things aren't so easy to come by when jobs are so scarce. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says a survey finds that impaired driving is down 30 percent since the boom times of 2006. More »
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Gas Prices Rose Almost 6 Cents A Gallon In Last Two Weeks
By Phil Villarreal on September 12, 2011 8:30 AM
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Gas prices are expected to rise during holiday weekends, but this year's Labor Day price bump reportedly turned into a ramp. In the past two weeks ending Friday, the national average regular gas price crept up 5.76 cents to $3.667 per gallon. The increase echoes the rise in the cost of crude oil, and an ethanol price rise also was a factor. More »
Texas Ups Speed Limit To 85 MPH
By Ben Popken on September 1, 2011 4:00 PM
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Put the pedal to the metal and get it in gear, today the max speed limit in Texas was officially raise to 85 MPH. Woohoo, yee-doggy! More »
Sometimes, It's Cheaper To Pay Shipping Than To Drive To The Store
By Laura Northrup on August 19, 2011 3:05 PM
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It may seem like you're saving money when you climb in your car to pick something up at the store, or use free site-to-store shipping. But when you take into account the total cost of owning and driving a car, sometimes ordering the item at home without leaving the couch is more economical, even if you do have to pay shipping. How does that work? More »
Survey: More Than A Third Of College Kids At UAB Use Apps While Driving
By Phil Villarreal on June 28, 2011 9:00 AM
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An apparently unscientific but eye-opening survey found that 35 percent of college students polled at University of Alabama at Birmingham use mobile apps while driving. The sample size was only 93 students, all at UAB, and participants were not selected at random, but the survey was enough to draw the attention of the American Psychological Association, which asked the student who conducted the survey to present her findings at its August convention. More »
Oil Prices Drop 4.5% As 60M Barrels Are Unexpectedly Released
By Ben Popken on June 23, 2011 1:00 PM
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Expect some much-needed relief at the pump! The US and its industrial allies unexpectedly announced that they're releasing 60 million barrels of crude oil from reserves over the next 30 days. The move came after a recent OPEC meeting failed to result in increased production. Oil prices immediately kicked down 4.5% on the news. Time to fill up the 'ol SUV and do some donuts before the market realizes it overreacted and prices go back up! More »
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Decreasing Demand, Falling Oil Prices Lead To Gas Price Dip
By Phil Villarreal on June 13, 2011 8:15 AM
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The road trip activity that goes hand in hand with the end of the school year tends to drive up gas prices, but drivers are instead finding a bit of relief at the pump. Thanks to a drop in demand, an expected increase in production and fading crude prices, U.S. gas prices have dropped 4 percent over the past three weeks. More »
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Gas Prices Drive People To Buy Homes Closer To Work
By Ben Popken on May 20, 2011 11:00 AM
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A survey by Coldwell Banker of its realtors finds that gas prices are figuring big in the calculations made by new home buyers of where to live. 75% said the spike gas prices is influencing decisions made by their clients, pushing them to choose homes closer to where they work. More »
Skimmers Found Installed Inside Gas Pumps. Inside!
By Ben Popken on May 18, 2011 3:00 PM
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If you're the type of person who already reflexively jiggles every card slot and looks for pinhole cameras whenever you go to swipe your card, despair. There is no 100% foolproof way to protect yourself, as proven by a pair of banditos who stole 3,600 card numbers after installing a credit card skimmer inside several gas pumps, reports the MountainView Voice. More »
Honda Spokesman Gets Screwed By Honda Dealer
By Ben Popken on May 9, 2011 1:00 PM
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An actor who pitches Honda cars in their ads says he got screwed over by a Honda dealership when he tried to get the very same deal he helps sell on TV. More »
Tire Shop Spits On Investigative TV Crew
By Ben Popken on May 5, 2011 4:00 PM
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When CBS Sacramento's Call Kurtis went to investigate consumer complaints that a tire shop was advertising super low prices and then jacking up the price with the final bill, the store didn't do a very good job of living down their reputation. Especially when they spit on the camera crew twice and gave them the middle finger. I also enjoyed the part where Kurtis asks who owns the store and the guy behind the counter says, "your mom." More »
