Idiocy Meter Asshole Meter So we’re back from San Francisco, and it has been almost 2 years exactly since I last did a comparison between SF and LA. We flew up there this time around and didn’t rent a car, so I was seeing everything from a pedestrian’s point-of-view. Perhaps I was a bit kind [...]
Filed under: aggressive, car lights, cell phone, clueless, leapfrog, observation, reviews | No Comments »
Lauren Fix, aka The Car Coach, has appeared numerous times on Oprah, TODAY, The View, CNN, FOX News, ABC 20/20, and more. She is a winning professional race car driver, an alpha mom, and an award-winning automotive and lifestyle expert. She is holding a teen car care clinic tomorrow, August 10 in Los Angeles at the [...]
Filed under: reviews | 1 Comment »
Hopefully you were smart yesterday and didn’t drink and drive. I was at a friend’s house for the classic all-American Independence Day BBQ, and another friend started telling me that on his way north on the 101 Fwy, some zigzagging, erratic driver almost ran into their vehicle, sped off, and nearly caused three other accidents [...]
Filed under: reviews | 6 Comments »
The Daily Beast contacted me today informing me that they’ve done some number crunching to ascertain the top 100 interstates most likely to generate a fatal auto accident. The keyword here is fatal. They used 5 years of accident data from the NHSA, and each interstate was broken into stretches within a single state. You [...]
Filed under: reviews | 6 Comments »
I got an email yesterday about Waze, a free social GPS application available on iPhone, Android, and Blackberry (in beta). L.A. drivers can receive real-time data on traffic and accidents along with updates on other road incidents provided by other users. The concept is actually pretty cool. The application turns commuters with GPS-enabled phones into [...]
Filed under: reviews | 3 Comments »
