Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
It's depressing enough that anyone would think of stealing money from ladies in their 90s, but it's extra sad to hear that it's a younger woman doing it through force and intimidation.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
GM's OnStar system has sent emergency service personnel to the precise location of over 100,000 crashes in the last 12 years, often when the vehicle's occupants were unable to call themselves or to places where there was no cell service. For the serious safety seeker, OnStar remains the creme de ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
This isn't as self-indulgent a service as you might think, since it might be able to get you somewhere important (a roadside cafe with a clean restroom and a broad coffee selection) without you having to drive around looking for one, or pulling over to search the web the old-fashioned ...
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Friday, November 14th, 2008
A scary experience for a woman who thought she knew how to protect herself at all times.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
When it comes to the big traffic tickets -- reckless driving, DUI, seatbelt violations, failure to yield and speeding -- men are much worse than women. On top of that, women are more likely to be found innocent of blame in a crash.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
More proof that there's more to vehicle safety than a flotilla of airbags and a five-star crash rating.
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Thursday, November 13th, 2008
A Florida law requiring vision tests of people over 80 has reduced the highway fatality rate for that age group, but no one seems to understand why or if it will work in other jurisdictions.
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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008
Perhaps as many as 3,000 unborn children die in car crashes every year, yet it's pretty easy to reduce those numbers if the mothers are willing.
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
This little contretemps near Seattle provides big advice for people wondering about the relative safety of different cars. Consider the position and condition of the two small cars in relation to the trucks, and take special note that the drivers of both small cars were hurt and the truck drivers ...
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw
No matter how many airbags they put in cars from now on, there'll be no gigantic advance in auto safety until the car companies figure out a way to build cars that are smart enough to not run into each other.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
The rapist reached out from underneath the car to grab the women, pulled her to the ground and raped her -- in a large, well-used parking lot in broad daylight.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
At least in part, a man's time spent playing Grand Theft Auto is held to be responsible for him attacking women on the street. The drugs may also have had something to do with it, but authorities in the UK believe the game was key.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
Even when a recall notice from the manufacturer sounds mundane, the little problem can sometimes be the tiny spark that ignites a huge blaze, and we mean that literally as well as figuratively.
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
This story reiterates the major things you've heard before about women and the car business -- they prefer green vehicles, safety's important, dealers treat them with disdain, etc. -- but it's worth repeating, and it's good to know they're particularly excited about the coming of the Volt plug-in hybrid.
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Only two things will bring about significant decreases in highway fatalities -- cars that don't run unless the seatbelts are engaged, and cars that talk to each other. Naturally, there's no one giving any serious thought to the easiest, cheapest and fastest answer (seatbelts), but lots of people are ready ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
By Susan Winlaw: GM and its OnStar safety and security network recently debuted a service in that allows the police to slow down a stolen car so they can recover it and capture the people who took it.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Lots of people think a car's airbags will do the job as well as a seatbelt, but this Scottish TV commercial proves them wrong. Remember that the official name for the airbags is "Supplementary Restraint System," which essentially means it enhances the job done by seatbelts.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Yet another reason why not wearing a seatbelt so you can be "thrown clear" of the vehicle makes no sense.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Consider that the woman's move might even have distracted the male driver enough to cause the crash. So it's another lesson in the need for eternal vigilance in car safety.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
One of them was pregnant, which makes it all a bunch more unpleasant, and there were stomach punches and videotaping and arrests were made. And it was all over a parking space.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A top speed of 80 mph still seems too high, but Ford's MyKey system could help teen safety by muting the sound system until their seatbelts are done up.
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
A long, detailed and depressing overview of how political interference kept the feds from taking action on banning cell phone use in cars, from Mother Jones.
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Now this is the kind of thing hockey fans want to see on YouTube. For non-hockey fans, a Zamboni is the garage-sized machine that rolls around the ice between the periods of a hockey game resurfacing the ice. So when the machine at a rink near the Detroit-Windsor border starting ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Like their mothers and grandmothers before them, today's cohort of young female car buyers is much more enthusiastic about owning a car that helps ensure their safety and security than they are in buying a car which promises them a sporty ride. So why doesn't more automotive advertising reflect this ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
First off, carrying your beloved pet on your lap so that it can be trapped between the airbag and your body in a crash an incredibly stupid thing to do. Really, how bad will you feel when you kill your best friend like that?So it's a good thing that more ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
There's a mistake in this blog that makes you think the whole story might be a total fabrication, but it still imparts a message that will speak to a lot of women.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
This is pretty good advice from an organization that's nowhere near as reliable or infallible as most people believe, but you should be careful about taking Item 5 at face value. Sometimes buying the deal is the best way to get the best price with the least amount of effort. ...
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Monday, October 27th, 2008
Useful advice for parents, particularly with regard to creating a driving contract for your teens to sign.
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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Sure the crash had a lot to do with the foggy and wet conditions, but the Michigan teenagers and the baby probably died in the two-car crash because lots of people weren't wearing their seatbelts.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
A leading North American auto journalist praises Car Advice For Women (and Smart Men), which naturally enough pleases those of us who wrote the book. it's the kind of third-party endorsement authors can usually only dream about.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
For a while now various firms have been offering parents the chance to keep an eye on what their teens are doing in the family car, which is supposed to reduce the risk of crashes and deaths. But there's also been considerable generational angst, and that has caused other problems.
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Friday, October 24th, 2008
While the writer of this piece is not known for his aversion to exaggeration, he is known for making hard points in an extremely entertaining fashion. Here he takes a look at the idea of people switching from cars to motorcycles in an attempt to save money on gas.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Some things never change, but other things do, which is why the kind of reckless person who doesn't mind putting others at risk is now being caught by ever-evolving technology.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
A truly exhaustive examination of why about 40 million Americans don't wear seatbelts and why they should. It probably won't change many minds, but you can't leave them any chance to say that no one told them.
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