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VIDEO: Low-flying pelican results in Bugatti Veyron Hydro Edition **[*UPDATE:** Now with actual crash footage!]

This is one of the saddest, yet most amusing sights we've ever seen. A $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron sitting in a salt water lagoon, door open, in two feet of nasty, corrosion-inducing muddy water. While the sight is sad, how the event allegedly transpired is downright hilarious. The unnamed owner of the vehicle, traveling through Galveston, Texas to look at some high-end property, was reportedly talking on his cell phone when a low-flying pelican distracted him. The driver swerved to avoid the big bird, dropped his cell phone, and in the ... Read more →

Laptop steering wheel desk is real. And real funny. Alex Nunez

You know, when we're driving along, eating buffalo wings and trying to manage a Super Slurpee while playing Cooking Dash on the iPhone, it sure would be helpful to have a place to keep all that stuff ...

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

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. ...

Transportation Secretary LaHood calls for September 'distracted driving' summit? Chris Shunk

A recent study from Virginia Tech showed that texting while driving makes you 23 times more likely to get into a crash and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is looking to address the problem ...

REPORT: NHTSA withheld results of studies on cell phone use while driving because of Congress Jonathon Ramsey

As always, it ain't the crime, it's the cover-up. In what looks to be Congress protecting its turf, a planned study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on driver distraction – ...

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Breaking news (yea, right): Distracting driving may account for most accidents 3 years ago on Autoblog

What follows should come as absolutely no surprise to any of our readers who have passed drivers' education. According to a recent study, 4 out of every 5 crashes may be attributable to driver distraction. The work performed by the National Highway Transportation Safety Adminstration and the ...

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

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