Posts Tagged ‘cars’
big three
Once in a while you can find me surfing the major stories on CNN, International edition – even though they lost the meaning of “international” – it tends to be more about USA than anywhere else.
Today was one of those days where I look at some of the headlines, snort in derision, then move along. [...]
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Tags: big three, cars, CNN, credit-crunch, finance, opinion, recession
subversive continued
A comment yesterday got me thinking further than just “how would our lives change if we didn’t have personal cars”. Fae’s comment got me thinking – how much would we change as a society if we were forced to take communal transport? Whether that is mass transit, or subsidized carpooling…
Originally, I was thinking internally, as [...]
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Tags: cars, driving, life, social conciousness, society, transit, transportation
loose nut behind the wheel
Reading a Canadian newspaper online this morning, I found an article about a subject that gets me worked up pretty quickly. Auto insurance premiums.
So the back-story on the article is there is a college age young man in British Columbia (western Canadian province) that has received a quote from a insurance group for an annual [...]
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Tags: canada, cars, driving, insurance, news, speeding
got common sense?
Wired has posted an article about safety systems in luxury cars, that I am in complete agreement with. I am all for helping drivers operate their vehicles better (especially where I am from, where everyone drives everywhere) but taking choice and vigilance out of the equasion might make the roads less safe.
I always thought that as [...]
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Tags: blogging, cars, drivers, news, safety, wired
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