Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 8:37am
The ORIGOSafe both has a frustrating name to type and will stop you from texting while driving.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012 - 8:53pm
Dogs can do all sorts of amazing things from leading the blind, to sniffing out drugs, but now it looks like they may soon take over behind the wheel too. Best of all, unlike those robotic Google drivers, these guys will shower you with doggie kisses when you get to your destination.
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 2:57am
We all know about the dangers of texting while driving, but most young drivers still think they can get away with it. In Belgium, a safety group called Responsible Young Drivers decided to drive the danger home, by asking them to send texts while taking their driving test.
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 1:27pm
This post will never serve as an excuse for you to drive drunk, but it could make you think about not going anywhere when you're feeling under the weather (which could also be a pretty good excuse to just game all day). A new study finds that driving while sick is easily comparable to driving after having four double-whiskeys.
Monday, September 5, 2011 - 5:16am
On this lovely Labor Day, if you're off from work, we encourage you to spend time with your family and friends. What kind of memories can you create? One controversial video is going viral: the one where a dad in China lets his four-year-old daughter take the car through traffic and not kill anybody.
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 11:41am
Until we get the robot cars we've been waiting for, sleeping and driving just don't mix. The Anti Sleep Pilot is a gadget that lives on your dashboard and does its level best to keep you awake and safe while you're behind the wheel.
Thursday, August 19, 2010 - 2:51am
It sounds like the kind of technology you'd see on The Jetsons (well, you know, if the Jetsons drove on roads), but a group of researchers in Germany "Air Clean" slabs that help reduce the detrimental impact of cars and trucks.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 - 6:43am
If there's one thing we don't need more of on the road right now, it's distractions. Yet a group in San Francisco is looking into the possibility of slapping digital license plates on cars. Rather than simply display your plate number on a sweet, scrolling marquee, the plates would display ads. Ads for other drivers to read.
Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - 4:44am
This is the Uni-Signal, or Universal Sign Light. It's here to address a major problem with our old traffic lights: if everyone is supposed to know what a traffic light is trying to tell them, then why isn't it designed so that everyone will be able to read it?
Thursday, December 17, 2009 - 12:51pm
LED traffic lights may use a fraction of the energy their incandescent predecessors used, but there's a problem emerging as we enter these colder months: LED bulbs don't give off a substantial amount of heat. When things got cold in...
