Fernando Alonso “making a solid recovery” says McLaren
The Spanish driver’s manager Luis Garcia Abad tweeted a picture of Alonso smiling in a hospital bedless than 48 hours after a hair-raising smash at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Alonso’s…
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Road rage+guns=tragedy
The death of 44-year-old mother of four Tammy Meyers in Las Vegas on Valentine’s Day after an apparent road rage incident is the latest tragedy to challenge the adage: “An…
Road rage: Cameras and guns only add to the problem
But sometimes it takes a tragic turn. Last week in Las Vegas, a mother of four was killed in an apparent road rage case. Police say Tammy Meyers died of…
Biden: I’m friends with ‘an awful lot’ of Somali cab drivers
Some Delaware cab company owners disputed Biden’s comment about Somali drivers. “I don’t think I’ve seen any in Delaware,” said Anthony Eber, the owner of the six-cab Family Taxi and…
Stoned Drivers At Far Lower Risk Of Crash Than Drunken Drivers
A government study on impaired driving released last week found that drivers who had used marijuana were at a far lower risk of getting into a car accident than drivers…
The Attention Machine
Human attention isn’t stable, ever, and it costs us: lives lost when drivers space out, billions of dollars wasted on inefficient work, and mental disorders that hijack focus. Much of…
Will Uber and Lyft make your job obsolete?
In San Francisco, one federal district judge speculated that the ride-sharing company Uber may have to treat its drivers as employees rather than independent contractors. In another courtroom in the…
Drunk Driving Wanes In U.S., But Drug Use By Drivers Rises
Feb 6 (Reuters) – The number of U.S. drivers under the influence of alcohol is steadily dropping, but the use of illegal drugs by drivers is on the rise, new…
Fewer Drivers Are Drinking Behind The Wheel, But More Are Using Drugs
The number of drivers on the road with alcohol in their systems has declined by nearly one-third since 2007, but there has been a large increase in drivers using marijuana…
Uber Tries to Ease South Korean Concerns
SEOUL, South Korea — Uber, the ride-hailing service, said on Wednesday that it was asking the South Korean government to register Uber drivers so that it could overcome legal challenges…
Ron Dennis: McLaren ‘will return to winning ways’
A previous five-year collaboration led to total domination of Formula One and McLaren chief executive officer Ron Dennis is confident its new partnership with Honda can bring back that winning…
Uber, Lyft, And Sidecar Win Latest Regulation Battle Against California
Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar have won the latest battle over government regulation after the California Department of Motor Vehicles retracted a controversial memo telling the companies’ drivers they needed to…
How Uber Fails To Prove Its Drivers Make More Than Taxi Drivers
There’s a lot of uncertainty about how much money Uber drivers make and whether being an Uber driver is, as the company says, an ideal part-time job. Uber released a…
Taxi drivers strike in China over steep fees, Uber
Last week, China’s Ministry of Transport banned private cars from providing rides through taxi apps, after other drivers went on strike in some Chinese cities in early January, according to…