GHSA Surveys The Science Of Distraction, Finds 15%-30% Of Crashes Involve...
The Governor’s Highway Safety Association has reviewed a number of studies on distracted driving, and its report [PDF here] shows a number of disturbing findings. A few of the highlights (or is that...
View ArticleTexas Appeals Court: Driver Has No Right to Dashcam Video
Drivers have no recourse if police say the tape from a dashboard-mounted video camera is not available, according to a ruling Wednesday from the Texas Court of Appeals. Mark Lee Martin wanted to defend...
View ArticleWould-Be Civic Thief Thwarted By Hidden Kill Switch, $21 In Junkyard Parts...
Having spent most of my driving years in car-theft-prone neighborhoods in California and preferring the please-steal-me Honda Civic as my daily driver of choice, I learned many years ago that a secret...
View ArticleCourts Uphold Right To Video Police, New Mexico Officer Makes Us Wonder If We...
Boston.com’s On Liberty blog reports that the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the right of citizens to video police officers, ruling in part that changes in technology and society have made the...
View ArticleNorth Dakota Supreme Court: Drivers Not Searched Under Auto Exception
Just because police can search an automobile does not mean they can search its driver, according to an August 15 ruling by the North Dakota Supreme Court. The finding was applied in the case of Kevin...
View ArticleAsk The Best And Brightest: Is The Supercar’s Cool Wearing Off?
The arrest of 13 young supercar drivers near Vancouver, British Columbia is not necessarily the sort of piece I’d jump all over right away, but it did inspire quite a number of emails from readers...
View ArticleMissouri: Lawsuit Challenges Red Light Camera Legality, Astroturf
Lawyers for motorists in Missouri are looking to capitalize on recent discoveries regarding deceptive marketing campaigns orchestrated by red light camera companies. On Wednesday, The Simon Law Firm...
View ArticleHow To Tell If A Red Light Camera Is A Safety Tool Or A Dangerous Form Of...
[Editor’s note: The following was sent to us by Donald Sawicki of Copradar.com, a site where Mr Sawicki offers insight and literature on radar and red light camera safety issues to victims, defendants...
View ArticleBrazil Investigating High Car Prices
Whenever our man in Brazil, Marcello DeVasconcellos reports on new model introductions in his home country, TTAC’s American audience is consistently blown away by the prices commanded by new cars...
View ArticleCosta Rica Unveils Most Burdensome Speed Camera Program Yet
Since September 8, motorists in Costa Rica have been racking up speed camera fines worth 308,295 colones (US $600) each. Sixteen speed cameras have been flashing around the city of San Jose at a rate...
View ArticleOur Daily Saab: Antonov Wanted In Europe, Was Saab “Rescued” With Embezzled...
If GM needed another reason to let Saab die on the vine, it just arrived: Vladimir Antonov, the Russian banking scion, longtime partner with Victor Muller in Spyker, and erstwhile Saab rescuer is...
View ArticleKill Switch Thwarts Denver Civic Thieves Once Again, Junkyard Parts To the...
I love my beater 1992 Honda Civic, and living near downtown Denver is great, but the combination of fifth-gen Civic and urban living means that thieves are going to try to steal my street-parked car on...
View ArticleVengeful Scam On Legit Repo Man or Crooked Repo Man Selling Stolen Car? You...
The world of towed-away cars can be a harsh one, as our very own Steven Lang often points out. Today I heard the latest in a long series of tales from the often-penumbral world of towing and...
View ArticleQuestion: What Car Is Most Favored By Murderers?
Back when I was looking for a cheap suspension-donor Lexus SC400, I had a couple of friends tell me to be careful when I went to go look at clapped-out Americanized Soarers with three-digit price tags:...
View ArticleFreaky Friday: Man Discovers his 2014 Jetta’s Street Value is Much Higher...
Have you ever bought a secondhand car, only to find the previous owner forgot his or her favorite CD in the stereo? Well, that didn’t happen to a Kentucky man. That Volkswagen owner’s discovery is just...
View ArticleGuam Residents Unknowingly ‘Owned’ Luxury Vehicles in Export Scheme
Guam, besides having the highest per-capita Spam consumption in the world (16 tins per person, on average), is also home to a recently uncovered fraud scheme that placed high-end vehicles in the...
View ArticleChicago: Where Crime Scenes Increasingly Have Lane Markers
There’s no shortage of ink spilled about the sky-high murder rate in Chicago, but the Windy City’s most overlooked crime scene isn’t a particular neighborhood or address. It’s the freeway. In a year...
View ArticleAs Volkswagen Exec Heads to the Slammer, an Engineer Awaits His Fate
The first person sentenced in the sprawling Volkswagen emissions scandal is headed to jail in South Korea, but the man who helped design the defeat smog-spewing engines will have to wait for his...
View ArticleSix Volkswagen Executives Indicted by Department of Justice
The United States has now laid charges against six former or current Volkswagen officials for their role in the diesel emissions scandal. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Michigan...
View ArticleVolkswagen Exec Could Get 169 Years; Top Managers Warned Not to Go on Vacation
After a Volkswagen official was collared in Miami while on vacation, other top company officials have been warned to stay close to home. Oliver Schmidt, who allegedly lied to environmental regulators...
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