Driving

  • Mysterious D.C. rampage leaves smashed cars in its wake

    11/4/11 4:59 PM Comment

    Drunk drivers, perhaps? Roving midnight vandals? Someone who clearly needs to learn how to parallel park better? It's like a hurricane blew through the block.

  • District bicyclists to D.C. Council: Yes, we need protection from angry drivers

    11/3/11 2:22 PM Comment

     Today councilmembers heard from many of D.C.'s bicyclists about the failures of our roads — including the bicyclist struck in the well-publicized video of the Rhode Island Avenue accident. How should the Assault of Bicyclist Prevention Act of 2011 move forward?

  • Happy 100th birthday, Chevrolet!

    11/3/11 2:10 PM Comment

    The Chevy brand is officially one century old today. Let's salute the cars with a look back at a quaint commercial from the 1940s and the Chevrolet centennial retrospective video.

  • The danger of sneezing at the wheel

    11/1/11 5:02 PM Comment

    A Salisbury driver suffered from a sneezing attack and his passenger is now dead and he's in the hospital with broken ribs. How dangerous is road sneezing and just how can it lead you to be charged with reckless driving? 

  • Picture of the day: How the New York Times defines the wheels we drive

    10/20/11 10:53 AM Comment

    A marketing survey from the New York Times asks us which images represent our chosen mode of transportation. But most choices just show cars. Is something missing?

  • Metro history: Remembering D.C.'s rogue streetcar driver of 1957

    10/19/11 1:31 PM Comment

    More than half a century ago, a D.C. laborer absconded with a trolley and raced 15 blocks down Pennsylvania. By the end of its voyage, the streetcar managed to strike five cars and only stopped after the streetcar veered off its tracks.

  • Zipcar now lets you reserve cars through Facebook

    10/18/11 12:25 PM Comment

    The world's biggest car-sharing company meets the world's biggest social networking site. A new application lets you check out the Zipcars in your area and take one out ... all without leaving Mark Zuckerberg's domain.

  • A pox on Washington, D.C.'s Beltway speed demons (video)

    10/11/11 9:26 AM Comment

    Oh, you reckless, speeding, law-breaking drivers ... what motivates you? Who's going to stop you? One driver is demanding to know why you're all breaking the law and passing him on the road. He, after all, is keeping to the legal limit of 55 miles/hour. Why aren't you?

  • Daimler's Car2Go and Hertz On Demand bring new car-sharing to D.C.

    10/6/11 10:49 AM Comment

    The District Department of Transportation has officially confirmed that Zipcar, Hertz, and Daimler will all be operating car-sharing services in Washington, D.C. before long. Up until now, Zipcar has monopolized that market here in the District since 2007.

  • Gas prices may begin to drop in coming months, AAA says

    10/5/11 12:46 AM Comment

    Can it be? A automotive miracle has occurred — AAA's mid-Atlantic branch is reporting a drop in gas prices ... and one that may continue until we see what now seems like a breathtaking three bucks a gallon. But we're still spending more on gas than ever before.

  • Iconic VW bus rolls to life in a new documentary film

    10/3/11 3:31 PM Comment

    Damon Ristau, director of the forthcoming documentary The Bus, shares his thoughts on the eccentricities, history, and wonder that have led a post-World War II utility vehicle into becoming an American icon that signifies freedom, hippies, and the open road. 

  • Tinted window fans, your day has arrived

    9/28/11 4:16 PM Comment

    Whether you're paranoid or just think it's cool, you can now get tinted windows cheap thanks to a new Groupon offer. If you're willing to trek to Sterling, Virginia, that is.

  • Just how soon will robot drivers take the wheel?

    9/20/11 12:35 PM Comment

    Driverless cars will become more popular over the course of the next half century. But how will that affect the culture of driving? One day the notion of driving lessons themselves may well be obsolete.

  • Here's what busy transit looks like in Bangladesh (video)

    9/15/11 9:45 AM Comment

    See the cars race by. See the pedestrians crush together in massive crowds. See the bike commuters angling around corners. Welcome to Dhaka, Bangladesh.

  • Metro history: D.C. parking was agonizing even 70 years ago

    9/14/11 6:39 PM Comment

    Consider the headline of this wonderfully fascinating April '46 article from The Rotarian: "The Parking Problem Can Be Solved," the title forthrightly proclaims. The vice president of the Automotive Safety Foundation proceeds to explain tips on how to manage parking and, in a telling but significant phrase from the article's subhead, "keep downtown shoppers cheerful."

  • Go car-free in D.C. and save more than $10,000 a year

    9/13/11 2:47 PM Comment

    The American Public Transportation Association has again released their national transit-savings report, which looks at how much the households of different cities can save by opting for public transportation. As expensive as the Metro is, it sure beats driving, based on these numbers.

  • Picture of the day: IBM's Commuter Pain Index spares D.C.

    9/8/11 3:41 PM Comment

    A new report from IBM shows that bad commuting really is the worst. From New York to Nairobi to Mexico City, cities around the world suffer from delays and worse as people wait in traffic. But don't worry! IBM has ideas about how to save us.

  • Yes, D.C. drivers are the worst—here's proof (video)

    9/1/11 12:02 PM Comment

    You've been cut off, you're waiting for hours in congestion, you're heard a driver honk and scream at you — it's just another day on the D.C. roads. D.C. has the worst drivers, according to a new report, so let's look at some of the best videos proving the point.

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