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One in eight. That’s about how many Americans will travel at least 50 miles from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, May 25-29, according to AAA Travel. And nearly 90 percent of those 39-plus million will drive to their…
Americans have a vehicle-recall problem. And it’s not necessarily the number of recalls – although that has been rising in recent years. A big problem is that millions of vehicle owners don’t get their vehicles repaired for reasons ranging from…
We’ve given fear of night driving a name. Nyctovehophobia. Now the question is, what do you do if you suffer from this condition? Ford wants you to buy a vehicle with the latest in pre-collision assist with pedestrian-detection technology, starting…
Nyctovehophobia. It’s night driving fear – nycto-veho-phobia. The word is a mash-up – a combination of other actual words, nyctophobia and vehophobia – but the situations that cause it are real. And at least one car company thinks it has…
Everyone seems to have advice on how you can become a better driver, from Jalopnik to MotorAuthority, lifehacker to DriverSide. Much of that advice is what you would expect to hear or already have heard. Some of it is much…
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