News from the Automotive World

April 4, 2012

Smartphone apps are dropping the price of in-car navigation.  Automakers are trying to keep up and offer several hybrid options such as the Toyota’s Entune, which uses Bing search with an in-dash nav system. Chrysler will unleash ads to promote its various brands. The company looks to explore their brands through stories of hope and [...]

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Safety Seat in Cadillac XTS Warns Drivers of Dangers

April 4, 2012

This spring when Cadillac rolls out the XTS luxury sedan it will be the first car to use direction tactile sensation. The bottom of the seat will vibrate to warn of threats when parking or when a collision may occur. The pulse patterns generated by the seat warn of such dangers such as drifting into [...]

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Drive like the Pros at Racing School

April 4, 2012

Learn about Formula 1, stock cars, the Baja buggy, and so much more. Learn NASCAR through the Richard Petty Experience School. For Rally try the Team O’Neil’s Rally School. For those that want to burn up the drag strip try the Frank Hawley’s Drag Racing School. If you like the mud and outdoors get some [...]

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2008 Audi A3 Cheaper to Insure For Teenagers

April 4, 2012

CarInsurance.com has revealed the 20 best cars for teenagers. Insurance rates can double even triple for new teenage drivers. It’s the teens lack in experience not the car that causes this. The cars in the list were rates by price, reliability, and fuel economy. The 2008 Audi A3 came out on top. The cars on [...]

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Google Meets George Jetson

April 4, 2012

Have you ever seen the cartoon The Jetsons? Meet George Jetson… daa-di-ta daa-di-ta … his boy Elroy… okay, so now that you have that song in stuck in your head for the next few days… Well the future has arrived. Not quite the future we saw in The Jetsons, but a pretty impressive move in [...]

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Seat Belts Not One Size Fits All

April 3, 2012

Safety belts, like cars, are inherently believed to be a viable means to protect all passengers in the event of an accident, but what if they didn’t protect all passengers equally? In a recent study done by the American Journal of Public Safety a report was released about a startling gender bias hidden within car [...]

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High School Safe Driver Wins New Car

April 3, 2012

For one lucky Walworth County high school student, April 11th will bring with it a new car for one of the counties safe and responsible drivers. Operation Click, a reward program for high school students designed to promote safe and responsible driving based in southern Illinois, has chosen Wisconsin as a participating state this year [...]

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My Dog Ate My … Car Insurance?

April 3, 2012

In a surprising discovery by Admiral Insurance, a report detailing the strangest insurance claims by customers had a startlingly high number of claims that often involved culprits of the animal variety. Whether it is stray peacocks who angrily vandalized car headlights, parking brakes being pulled up instead of the puppy the driver wanted, a spider [...]

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iOnRoad Augmented Driving App

April 3, 2012

Phones today come with a lot of nifty bells and whistles, all created to make your life just a little bit easier. Well a new App was recently created called iOnRoad Augmented Driving for Android phones, which actually makes your drive a little bit safer too. The app will track incoming dangers, give safety alerts [...]

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Walking the Green Talk

April 3, 2012

Some people talk about living green while others work on the “green” products that people use.  In an article by the New York Times, reporter Jim Motavalli talks about one couple who chose to live the “green” life in all its complexities. Shunsuke Okubo and his wife Carol are engineers for Ford in the city [...]

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