I have driven manuals all my life but recently had to drive an
automatic car for a week. I noticed automatics are quite poor when it
comes to having instant acceleration. You have to floor the gas pedal
then wait a second for it to downshift. This makes it difficult to

I am praying for the day when this country will lower the speed
limit back to 55 MPH. Gas prices have increased enormously yet I
still see people in their gas guzzlers driving 75 mph. I dont think
people realize how much more economical , safer and less stressful it

http://www.ng2000.com/fw.php?tp=driving
FRIDAY, May 25 (HealthDay News) -- While not as dangerous as talking on a cell phone while driving, passengers can cause distractions that boost crash risks, an Australian study finds.

Let's see a show of hands: who believes that this "accident" was
staged in order to force more people to use publoic transit? Notice
that officials have ALREADY added more trains to Bart...
That they blame the crash on "speeding" is just the icing on the cake.

Google has pulled out all the stops.  You can now look at roads from
the first-person perspective!    What's the catch?  Only major cities
seem to get the new feature.
E.g., Las Vegas:  http://tinyurl.com/3y9nvv

ALL NEW CARS MUST HAVE IT!
Is this the end of oversteer, powersliding
or as the kids call it, DRIFT
will we have a switch, where we can turn it off?

A friend of mine was telling me he got pulled over the other day
allegedly because his windows were tinted too darkly.
The cop then told him that "a lot of people in this year and model car
are up to no good" and let him off with a verbal warning to fix his

The clock has ticked, and is now past midnight GMT.  Happy May 30th--
the results are in for Calrog.com's Highway Enthusiast poll:
http://worldwide-hwys.calrog.com/poll/0905.php
Thanks to the overwhelming support from the Canadian and British

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/17/1777.asp
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Another document shows a city proposal to "de-synchronize traffic
signals in order to slow down traffic,

Was a little late for work today...  not playing hooky, had to stop at
a job site which was actually past my house in a direction away from
the office... anyway, on my way *to* the office I was sitting at a
stop light.  Cross traffic is moving, then slows, then stops.  At

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aoZ7q9LhDrVs&refer=home
Colorado, Utah Rival OPEC Reserves, Lure Chevron, Exxon, Shell
By Joe Carroll
May 29 (Bloomberg) -- Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi

As I'm walking back to my office after lunch today, I see a woman in
an SUV driving down a side street. Behind her is a man driving a small
Mercedes sedan. The woman slows down in order to make a right turn
into a driveway; there is nothing on the left side of the road except

I was just in a minor accident in California.  I was in a little two
way straight (one lane each way) at a stop sign for a pretty busy
street.  I was contemplating making a left, but decided to make a
right instead.

Yet another documented case....
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/17/1759.asp
Missouri: City Lowers Yellow Light Time Before Installing Cameras
Springfield, Missouri cuts the yellow time at over 100 intersections