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Painful Growth: 9-day long traffic jam in China continues on

Published on August 23, 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: 9, China, continue, days, jam, long, traffic.

From the “And you thought YOU had it bad?” department comes a report from the AFP, via Google News. The report says that drivers on the Beijing-Tibet expressway experienced a slowdown on August 14th due to extra cargo trucks entering the roadway headed for the capital, and the problem was compounded 5 days later by scheduled roadway maintenance. Now there’s a mini-economy of merchants selling food and water at inflated prices to stranded motorists – who says greed isn’t good? The traffic jam, which crawls continuously, is expected to last until the end of the road maintenance, which is scheduled to continue until mid-September.

Chalk this up the rate of growth of the Chinese automobile industry – it’s seen an increase of 1 million cars in the last 2.5 years, almost ten times faster than cities like Tokyo did it.

by John Suit

Source: AFP via Google News

Repeat DUI Offender Hits Judge

Published on June 17, 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: collier, driving, drunk, dui, fernandez, Gazette, judge, NHTSA, offender, repeat.

While it’s not a specific car I’m talking about this time, this one hits close to home. This incident happened in Montgomery County, MD, where I currently reside. Turns out that a repeat DUI offender named Rene Fernandez was involved in a collision last August, when his Tahoe struck a Honda Accord in the oncoming lane. The ironic part? The driver of the Honda was none other than Edwin Collier, a retired judge who had let Fernandez off light in 1998, when Fernandez was caught driving drunk for the second time in 3 months.

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Video: MythBusters crash cars for science

Published on May 6, 2010 in Fun Stuff, General and Under the Hood (In Depth). 0 Comments Tags: Adam, car, Discovery, Hyneman, Jamie, MythBusters, Savage, video, wreck.

MythBusters Host Jamie Hyneman

On last night’s MythBusters, hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman wrecked a bunch of cars. Why, you ask? All in the name of science. In a previous episode, Jamie said that two cars hitting each other at 50mph was the same as one car hitting an immovable object at 100mph. Viewers wrote letters to the pair of hosts, complaining that Jamie was incorrect. Read on for the videos and more synopsis.

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SFGate Ranks Hybrid cars by Years to Payoff

Published on April 28, 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: Altima, Ford, Fusion, Hybrid, Mercury, Milan, Nissan, SFGate.

So, you want to save the environment or lighten your gasoline expense? Naturally, you look to the many hybrid vehicles out there. Most of the major players currently have hybrid models on sale. In the near future, there will be a bevy of smaller players joining in on the fun. In the mean time, SFGate has ranked 7 of the most popular hybrids by the number of years until you “break even.” Click past the jump for more info.

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Consumer Reports tests Brake Override

Published on March 25, 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: brake, Consumer Reports, override, test, video.

Consumer Reports has a new video they’ve produced, showing the before and after for brake override systems, and it’s eye-opening. They took a new Toyota Avalon (pre recall) and a Toyota Camry (post recall) and tested them, comparing their results to previous test results on the corresponding vehicles. Click past the jump for the video and my analysis.

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Slow-motion Seatbelt ad … best ever?

Published on February 10, 2010 in General. 0 Comments Tags: ad, belt, seat, seatbelt, video.

Rather than taking a shock-and-awe or fear (“Click it or ticke”) approaches to reminding drivers to wear their seat belts, the following video shows the opposite; it shows life and beauty. I won’t spoil the details, so click past the jump to check out the 1 minute, 28 second-long video for yourself. For more information, please visit the Suffex Safer Roads web site. If you’ve seen another good car-related ad, by all means, send me a link.

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