Archive for the ‘Children’ Category
Thursday, March 19th, 2009
When it comes to helping you with the widest range of automotive-related dangers, no service in the world comes close to GM's OnStar safety-security system, and now the 24-hour service has added specific information related to a growing incidence of poisonings involving children and pets. For direct details on the ...
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
The craziest auto writer in the English-speaking world is back recommending a Volvo smart shoppers should avoid and suggesting that attractive cars should get preferential treatment. We think it's supposed to be a joke, but who knows?
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Monday, January 26th, 2009
Apparently a significant number of people, including a lot of children, are burned when gasoline catches fire, and the Shriners' Hospitals for Children wants to reduce that number. More information can be found at www.burnawarenessweek.org.
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Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Groups of mothers regularly pray together for the safety of their families and they believe those requests have often been answered.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
It's a little unfair to say that what the children of Baby Boomers want is not on many car companies' menus at present, but it is true that many changes will have to be made if they want to attract younger buyers in large volumes.
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
A consideration of how to handle one of the most irritating things about having a car leads directly into a consideration of the best way to lead your life. It may not work for you, but it might be worth your time to think about it.
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Most people take being in a car for granted, especially if they've been doing it for years with no untoward results. But this story shows how close to disaster you can come every time you get into a vehicle. This situation will play out in these people's lives forever and ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
An examination by a tech writer at the Washington Post makes it clear that the new technologies meant to stop people from being able to use cell phones in cars aren't as infallible as many people, but particularly the parents of teenagers, had hoped.
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Saturday, January 17th, 2009
The days of having nothing but a few gauges that most people didn't understand are behind the instrument panel, which is historically known as the dashboard. Soon enough they will be considerably more adaptive and interactive than you could possibly imagine.
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
Despite the tone of harrumphy disapproval that usually accompanies auto writers' examinations of the subject of in-car entertainment, this NY Times article is a fairly balanced view of the continued expansion of TV service to cars.
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Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
This is the kind of story that gives parents nightmares, so that means it's required reading for anyone who wants to know how the world can put her children at risk and what she has to do to protect them.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Not only did she do it on purpose and not show much emotion at being sentenced, but it seems to have happened because of a man and an injury to an innocent dog. For reasons that defy explanation, it seems even worse because it happened in Scotland.
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Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Not much of this will be new to the concerned parent, but it's always good to have the truths and dangers of teen driving brought up for reconsideration.
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
In an effort to avoid prosecution for driving without insurance, a 24-year-old Welsh man told the court he thought his mother had looked after getting it for him. Though guys like him would never get married and have children in a just world, it's likely he'll be blaming his wife ...
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
When he missed his bus to school, a little boy in Virginia decided to use skills he garnered playing Grand Theft Auto to take the family sedan instead. Technophobes everywhere will be delighted by this story.
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Tuesday, January 6th, 2009
Maybe 15 years ago the president of a frozen foods company caught our attention with a prediction about the upcoming popularity of microwaves in cars. His thinking was that new vehicles would soon come with microwaves because they would allow people to stop at a store after leaving to buy ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
As depressing as this story is for the obvious reasons, the worst of it may be what some passer-by did before leaving the scene. The crash, even the hit-and-run is sadly familiar, but that second guy...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
This is one of those stories that's simply hard for most people to believe, but unfortunately it's true. At least the authorities seem more disposed to doing something about them now.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
Obsessive-compulsive disorder isn't a lot of fun (except for fans of Monk), but it certainly turned out well for the people in this story.
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009
This story you would have to say is an unfortunate consequence in the increasing levels of equality and opportunity for women in various countries of the world.
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
The primary charm of this entry is a few minutes with the kind of English that only the Japanese are able to create (the headlines of this entry is a clue), but it's also instructive when you think about the size of this seven-passenger van -- it's nearly three inches ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Turns out the five young people who survived that drive off the Pacific Coast Highway and down the cliff to the edge of the water the other night might have used up their "lucky points" for the next couple of decades. The driver should be glad he survived to face ...
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
Japan is one of those countries where operating a car makes very little sense because it's so densely populated, but until recently that did not bother the consumers who believed that owning a car was a status symbol. Increasingly, however, young people in Japan reject that notion and stick to ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
A man who lives not far from Niagara Falls in Canada has given up his car to help the environment and has pledged to walk almost everywhere, and what that's like. It's great for the planet, but you can't ever rush to anything.
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
It's not exactly Attack of the Killer Floormats, but those rubber things that keep snow, ice and dirt from despoiling the carpet of your car can also cause considerable harm. There are lots of reports of them getting knocked out of position and jamming up against the gas pedal and ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Except for perhaps "choose your friends wisely," there's no real moral to this story. But that doesn't make it any the less fascinating.
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
The basic rule about preventing theft from cars (rather than preventing theft of the whole car) is not to leave anything on view that would attract a thief. That rule is especially true at this time of year, when shoppers are jumping in and out of stores and cars and ...
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Sunday, December 21st, 2008
It may not be the best time for unionized auto workers, but their history in Detroit and what it means for everyone on the continent's future should not be ignored.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
A new study finds that overweight kids suffer more injuries to their arms and legs during car crashes, but no one seems to know exactly why. It might be that their bodies aren't getting the right nutrients to develop strong bones because they eat the wrong food.
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Thursday, December 11th, 2008
People in the auto service business who want to help others quite often donate their services to repair a used car that can help someone in need change their life. That's what happened in this small city, where an auto body shop fixed up a Saturn for the victim of ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Usually when politicians go looking to score some easy points following a tragedy by pandering to public concern, an innocent group of citizens is stuck with the results. This time, the teens who would have had their lives disrupted by the new regulations rose up and used modern technology to ...
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Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Except for maybe having the sound on your iPod turned up too high, no one thing is responsible for the growth in hearing loss, but there are many ways to help lessen the problem.
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
With very little to live on following a bad car crash, a Buffalo woman has made her life richer by sharing it with two foster kids who have even less.
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
No information on who the writer is, or if she's really a cop or even a woman, but the advice is pretty good and while you've probably seen it before it doesn't do any harm to look it over again. The story about the guy with the crutch is a ...
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Monday, November 24th, 2008
For reasons unknown, the people who run this website went to a lot of trouble to pull together endless jokes featuring cars. It has to be of use to someone out there, even if we can't immediately think of who it might be. A child who loves cars, perhaps? We ...
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