Hugh got his driver’s license yesterday! Third time’s a charm. I will spare you the details of the long, tedious wait next to the litter-filled scrubby hillside behind a grocery store, which is where cars line up for the test drive. The wait is usually an hour, so bring entertainment. I will also spare you [...]
Car rides are where it’s at, when I need to have a meaningful chat with someone in my life. Many parents know this trick. To get your kid to open up, usher him or her to the automobile for some sort of longish errand, sit behind the wheel, pull off a complicated left turn, and throw [...]
They weave. They race. They tailgate. They thread the needle. I have a name for young guys who drive like bats out of hell on the highway. Video game drivers. These young dudes grew up playing video games, and you can tell that’s where they got their driving technique. Certainly not from driver’s ed, which – [...]
Sadly, we needed expensive studies and elected officials to tell us that texting while driving = bad. This report comes straight from the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious (hey, have I just quoted a Monty Python reference?). The conclusion is painfully self-evident. Do we really have to be told not to take our eyes off the road and look [...]
