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Study: Where does your city rank among the road-rageous?

Listen up, all you people in New York, Dallas, Detroit and Atlanta. Settle down. You, too, Minneapolis. There's no excuse for the kinds of things you're doing out there on the road. That's right, we saw you. Well, not us, but your fellow drivers who tattled on a new AutoVantage survey about road rage. Those were the five worst cities for road rage incidents this year, with respondents citing hot-tempered drivers and aggressive speeding and horn honking. But wait – there are two sides to the road named rage. Something must have set off ... Read more →

VIDEO: Traffic jam shockwave recreated in experiment Jonathon Ramsey

Click above to watch video Shockwave traffic jams -- the kind where you slow down and speed up (with others behind you doing the same thing) -- have finally been recreated in a controlled ...

More common sense - Cellphones make you a bad driver Dan Roth

In light of the "backwards-travelling wave" that researchers recently discovered as a cause of congestion, another study has pinpointed a possible major contributor. The University of Utah's Traffic ...

The real reason for traffic jams: us! Dan Roth

Finally, there's an explanation for those wasted hours we spent on the MassPike today asking no one in particular "what the (dirty word) is this (dirty word)?" A team of mathemeticians from the ...

President Putin fixes Russia's traffic congestion, for about an hour Frank Filipponio

Here's one way to clear traffic jams – become the Russian President. The above picture shows you how a typical Moscow street looks at pretty much any time of day. It's bumper-to-bumper traffic ...

Jam Session: Automotive Orchestra 2 years ago on Autoblog

One of the curses I've faced as a recording engineer is that the symphony of every day life drills itself through my skull. It can be quite distracting. People try to converse with you, and all you can focus on is the groovy rhythm coming from a rattly interior bit. Avant-garde musicians and ...

Nissan continues to build a better traffic light 2 years ago on Autoblog

Nissan is about to begin a new phase in its ongoing intelligent transportation system (ITS) project. The idea is that traffic signals can incorporate new technology to help reduce traffic congestion and pedestrian accidents. Using a section of roadway at the company's Kanagawa campus show above, ...

Survey triggers ironic UK traffic jam 3 years ago on Autoblog

From the department of "It Seemed Like a Good Idea At the Time," UK officials in Poole, Dorset conducting surveys waved morning commuters over with their clipboards in order to get participants to answer their questionnaires. The all-too-predictable result? A two-mile long rush-hour traffic ...






Autoblog Podcast #156: Paukert comes back for more! 

Chris, Dan, and Editor Paukert chat and give each other grief. Merriment ensues.

 
 

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