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Volvo buys full-page ads to pledge support for distracted driving legislation

Volvo has publicly stated that it would like to eradicate accident-related injuries and deaths per year by the year 2020; an extraordinarily lofty goal that would obviously save countless lives. But in the next ten years, hundreds of thousands of drivers will die in traffic accidents in the U.S. alone, and Volvo feels that anti-distracted driving legislation passing through Washington right now could save quite a few. To support the legislation, Volvo took out full-page ads in yesterday's Washington Post and USA Today. Volvo points out ... Read more →

SURVEY: Drivers feel 35% less safe than they did five years ago... do you? [w/POLL] Jonny Lieberman

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has released new survey results stating that over one-third of the motorists it polled are driving scared. More specifically, they feel less safe than they ...

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

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 ...

Nissan testing car-to-car communication system Damon Lavrinc

Beginning this October and running through March 2008, Nissan will be equipping 2,000 drivers with an experimental system that aims to make Japan's roads a safer place to be. The in-car system will ...

Legislate me: drivers favor ban on distractions Erin Mays

A recent study by Response Insurance, a national car insurer, says that cell phones aren't the only driver distractions people want banned. Reading, grooming, and even listening to MP3 players or ...

Mobile phone to provides real-time traffic reports 3 years ago on Autoblog

The ability to foresee the state of freeway traffic in real-time (as opposed to snapshots of traffic conditions) seems to be the up-and-coming technology for high end iron. Both Acura and, recently, Cadillac have bundled such systems with their navigation packages, which gather their data via ...

Custom blinker tones to replace ringtones in popularity? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Could it happen? CNET pundit Rafe Needleman let us know via email he asked this very question after reading a Ford press release that reveals turn signals of today emit a digital tone that has been meticulously engineered by dudes in white labcoats. In the past that familiar clicking sound that ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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