Newbie teen drivers even more useless than most teen drivers

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has used hidden cameras to prove what everyone already knew: most newbie teen drivers are pretty bad drivers. As their videos show, they are also impossibly obnoxious. No surprise there either. They also like Twilight.

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Ridley Scott's New TV Show Will Be Like Mad Men For Racing

Ridley Scott's New TV Show Will Be Like Mad Men For RacingMovie-director brothers Ridley and Tony Scott know their way around action movies. Now the two are working on a TV series about the glory days of Le Mans racing. Think Mad Men with sports cars and Stirling Moss. Holy crap.

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Ford "Nanny Key" For Teen Drivers Limits Vehicle Speed, Radio Volume

Ford has announced a new feature available on many 2010 models called "My Key," consisting of a programmable computer chip imbedded in the key that limits vehicle speed to 80 MPH. Designed for parents of teen drivers, the My Key system will also limit the stereo volume settings and sound a constant chime if seat belts… Read…
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Goodyear Polyglas Tires Help Stereotypical Women Drivers

This commercial aired during the first Monday Night Football game in 1970 and proves just what everyone already knew: women can't drive worth a damn and need exceptional tires to compensate for the lack of driving ability. Of course, the woman in the video has to deal with construction, bumpy roads, detours and more…

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Road Safety Monitors Judge Your Driving Automatically

greenhouse-leds.jpgWho needs wife when you can have a tiny box with three LEDs constantly judging your driving? The U.K. military has begun testing a program that will monitor driving habits of its personnel. Installed in 200 vehicles is a system from Greenroad Technologies. It uses a green, yellow and red LEDs to rate your driving based …

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Top Gear's Stig: Man Not Machine?

Some say he's a space alien, a specialized robot, or a secret genetics experiment. All we know is that he's a very talented driver who has a very mysterious identity. Until now. This new photo that has surfaced clearly shows a man behind the mask. So he's human after all. But which human?

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Only Half of Polish Adults Drive (Insert Punchline)

fiat126.jpgIn Post-Soviet Poland, cars drive... there are... well a majority of people don't drive cars. Almost all of the Polish-Americans we know drive (and living in Chicago, there are a lot) . But according to pollster Estymator, only half of Polish adults still living in Poland engage in the ancient art of driving. The study …

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Connecticut Bus Drivers Should Be Thanked For Fattening Up Their Riders


I am a former fat kid. Yes, that's right, an FFK. Not to make things too personal here, but because of that I'm not so much a fan of McDonald's. Which is why I perked up to one of the promo pieces CNBC's got running for a special taking viewers "Inside the McDonald's Empire" tonight at 9 PM. The piece catching our eye …

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