Last year I was lost in Washington DC. It was late at night, I had just arrived in the city and I needed to make my way to a friend’s house in Virginia. Trouble was, my GPS device decided to stop working. This was particularly problematic because the only place I had the address stored [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cell phone while driving’
Massive NYPD cell-phone crackdown snags over 7,500 drivers
Last week, the NYPD held their third Cell Phone Crackdown day of the year.
During the one-day crackdown, the boys in blue wrote 7,529 tickets to motorists who dared chat on their cell phone while driving or even glance at their iPod while at a red light. Typically they issue about 540 tickets a day for [...]
Remember when GM had balls?
Remember the good old days before General Motors was a government company?
When it purchased and dismantled streetcar networks across America;
When it fought tooth-and-nail against mandatory seatbelt legislation;
When it abandon its hometown of Flint, MI and laid off 30,000 people while making record profits;
When it led the charge to defeat new fuel economy standards, again, and [...]
The war on driving
An American’s car is his castle, and that castle is under siege.
The assault on American motoring practices began last Saturday when The New York Times published its lede story on the dangers of driving while talking on a cell phone. The Times continued the theme Monday, citing recently released study from the National Highway Traffic Safety [...]
