If you don't maintain your car, you become a danger to yourself and everyone else on the road. But maintaining a car is expensive, so your broke friends end up deferring maintenance until they crash.

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Here's a father telling his daughter what to do if a car crashes in front of them. And while he's giving that advice, a motorcycle crashes in front of them.

Hey, why is that guy driving his tuned Honda with the steering wheel taken off? Isn't that stupid dangerous? Allow me to me explain.

You hit black ice. You see a car ahead spin out on the highway. You spot the back end of a truck coming out of a hidden driveway. Now what?

That sounds scary, but it's true. Somewhat. Mercedes-Benz has tapped the former Formula 1 driver to help develop some of its future driving aides and things to stop drivers from crashing really expensive cars.

A whopping 3.3 million Hondas, Nissans, Toyotas and Mazdas are being recalled due to a minor little glitch in which the passenger-side airbags send shrapnel flying into the cabin. Doesn't that sound fun?

How do firefighters learn the proper method of opening a Tesla Model S, with its high voltage cables, battery pack, and DC converter? They tear one apart for practice.