Driving Laws

Recent studies have found banning cellphone use while behind the wheel is not leading to a decrease in accidents.

How exactly car insurance companies calculate rates is a mystery, but we do know that they use a closely guarded calculation weighing obvious risk indicators like driving history and age with more surprising factors, such as gender, credit score and zip code. In fact, where you live can end up costing you hundreds of dollars extra per year.

In recent months, a number of states across America have made it easier for law-enforcement officers to meet the standards necessary to search a motorist's car without a warrant during a traffic stop. Massachusetts is headed in the opposite direction.

Rolling coal isn't always mere indiscriminate harassment, but a form of grassroots political protest against President Obama and perceived burdensome federal regulations.

Alcohol has played a large role in making Independence Day the deadliest day on the calendar for American drivers in recent years.

Teen drivers in New York are safer than teens in any other state, according to a new study from Wallethub.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a law today which bans police from implementing a traffic ticket quota systems

Montana became the only state in the nation that does not ban at least some drivers from texting when a new law took effect in South Carolina this week.

Days before Morgan's accident thrust trucking safety into the news, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved legislation that would undo rules that only went into effect last year that mandated certain rest periods for truck drivers.

Police officers in Pennsylvania no longer need a warrant to search your car during a traffic stop. A recent court ruling granted law-enforcement authorities broader powers in determining whether they can search a vehicle.

Here's the line to remember: "As robots become mainstream, lawmakers will have to grapple with how to govern machines and hold software accountable." That comes from a New York Times piece on what kind of legislation will be needed to deal with the inevitable accidents that autonomous vehicles will get into. The lawyers, naturally, will go after everyone with money, but who do the authorities charge when a self-driving car parks itself in a no-parking zone, and who will the jury hold re

Public-service announcements fashioned in the form of a rap battle seem like a terrible idea, but the video made by YouTube stars Rhett and Link for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration manages to be hilarious.

LAPD patrol cars are fitted with devices to videotape traffic stops and encounters, and officers wear transponders on their belts that capture audio and send it back to the vehicle recorder via an antenna on the car. In summer 2013 an internal LAPD audit found that antennas on patrol cars had been removed.

The Department of Transportation released a commercial Wednesday aimed at teens and young adults to help curb distracted driving just in time for Distracted Driving Awareness month.

An artist in California is calling attention to bad driving habits in a big way, posting pictures of real motorists engaging in distracted driving on billboards all over San Francisco.

The Colorado Department of Transportation released three new public service announcements today encouraging newly legal recreational marijuana users to attempt to do anything they want, just not driving. The PSAs are part of a new push to keep stoned drivers off the road.

Drive high, get a DUI. That warning comes from the Colorado State Patrol, which starts its new campaign today to prevent stoned drivers from hitting the road.

The self-confessed speed freak who taped himself running a 26-mile loop around Manhattan in only 24 minutes pleaded not guilty in court on charges of reckless driving.

Texting while walking results in more injuries per mile than texting while driving, according to a new study from the University of Buffalo.

Four police officers in one small California town were arrested Tuesday, accused of illegally seizing the cars of poor motorists.