A new video from the San Francisco Bay Area has been added to the Worldwide
Highway Library (a Calrog.com component).  This video outlines the layout of
State Route 9, including discussion of Santa Cruz Mountains and nearby
redwoods, and showing the Monte Sereno city hall.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16692196/
Driver gets life in prison for smuggling deaths
19 illegal immigrants died in nation's deadliest human trafficking
attempt

Once again a little snow has closed the 5. They shut it down yesterday
and don't expect to re-open it until later today. The alternate route
only takes about 45 minutes, but thousands of Truckers have chosen to
spend the night in Castaic (or Arvin) and wait out the closure.

My friend in California sent me a file that has a clip from Italy.  In it,
there is a Lamborghini police car.  500 hp, 309kph, blue flashing lights,
television, electronic recording and recognition devices, lots of stuff.
A nice interview.  Anyone else seen this going around?

I tend to speed when tired, and the more tired I get, the more I speed.
The reason is that I want to get to destination to rest ASAP. Also,
fatigue reduces inhibitions, and that makes me less cautious. Does this
happen to you too?

I was watching a program about China this afternoon, and I think I know what
the reason for Chinese Fire Drills are.  You know, where the occupants of
the car get out at the light and run around and get back in?
On their traffic signals to the side is a 30 second clock that starts ...

You know how some cars (e.g. C6 Corvettes) do not come from the
factory with a proper place to mount a front license plate? In some
cases, the bracket provided by the manufacturer attaches with
double-stick tape(!!!), looks like sh.t, and falls off easily. This is

Spotted tonight, in Lawrenceville, GA:  
A Mazda Miata driver, drifting repeatedly onto the shoulder while an
LCD screen on the center of the dash was playing  video, plainly
visible through the rear window.  

Another fine day on the ice with FUBAR vehicle operators.
http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=C25F5D6E-1900-4EB3-8CE2-A25E2C142C90&f=00&
fg=copy

As everyone knows by now, latin american culture sees nothing wrong
with speeding and drunk driving even when it results in the death of an
innocent person. Now we have millions of these deadly criminals in our
country but as long as they're illegal they know they have to be at

They'd be deployed by a collision sensor. They should reduce the
severity of a a collision, but the question is to what extent. Comments?

Magazine's car seat findings withdrawn
By JIM FITZGERALD, Associated Press Writer Thu Jan 18, 6:10 PM ET
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - Consumer Reports was forced on Thursday to retract
a damning report on infant car seats after the federal government said

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6u-WQPhIs
They went a little over the top in the end, but it's definitely worth
watching!
Ulf

99% of the people in america don't break any laws except when they get
on the roads.  Then  nearly all of them turn into criminals who by
their speeding and drunk driving and red light running and other
assorted crimes kill 42,000 americans a year and injure millions and

KTLA reports this morning on a gas station fire. A man was fueling his
pickup truck; just like they tell you NOT to do, he was sitting in the
driver's seat while it was filling up. Apparently he built up some
static charge - when he went back to remove the nozzle, he started a