Can driving from 11 years old save lives?
Why not? Since driving involves both decision-making and physical skills, it makes sense to have kids spend longer doing those things before they get their license. Giving children as young as 11 experience behind the wheel could potentially slash accident rates and save lives. That’s according to research from Seat and Young Driver Training Ltd, [...]
Texas opens first 85-mph highway in U.S.
From Yahoo! News: Everything’s bigger in Texas including, as of Wednesday, the speed limit. A new 41-mile (65-kilometer) stretch of toll road between San Antonio and Austin is now open with an 85-mph (137-kph) speed limit, the highest posted speed limit in the United States. State transportation officials hope that the speed limit will be [...]
More on That Silly Proposed NTSB Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving
I posted just the other day about how silly this proposed ban is, and how it’s practically unenforceable. Glenn Reynolds, the Instapundit, writes in Popular Mechanics that the facts of the accident that supposedly initiated this action by the NTSB don’t even point to usage of electronic devices as the distracting factor. Rather, it was [...]
Proposed NTSB Ban on Cell Phone Use by Drivers is Silly; and, It’s Unenforceable
This week the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that there be a national ban on cell phone use by drivers. This seems like the typical big-government-every-issue-is-a-nail-and-we-have-a-big-hammer approach to solving perceived “problems.” Let’s pass another law! Radley Balko (the Agitator) has a solution that would work in many cases like this: use common sense. If you’re [...]
Don’t Mess with Texas: They’re Raising the Speed Limit to 85
Safety weenies and some insurance companies don’t like it, but the Texas legislature is raising the speed limit on some sections of interstate to 85 mph. The Texas House of Representatives has approved a bill that would raise the speed limit to 85 mph on some highways. The bill now goes to the state Senate, the Austin [...]
Driving While Talking on the Phone is Dangerous, Right? Maybe Not…
Image via Wikipedia You see it all the time. Somebody in front of you is driving really slow, or erratically, or they’re slow to get going from the stop light. When you blast around them, you see the reason: they’re talking on the phone. It’s pretty much part of the canon of accepted theories that [...]
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