Seems as though NBC has decided to dump "journalistic credibility" in exchange for appealing to the Lowest Common Denominator. Maybe Leno’s looking for something to do after Conan takes over the Tonight Show.
Source: Edmunds Inside Line
Monthly Archive for January, 2008
Will they just go underground? Will YouTube imitators also be affected? Can these videos really be stopped? Probably not with the proliferation of video cameras and simple demand.
Source: Pistonheads
It’s not the new Sony/Cannon/Olympus point-and-shoot mega megapixel camera, it’s Laser Atlanta’s SpeedLaser B radar which utilizes LIDAR technology that can give a reading in 0.3 seconds. It also includes proprietary stealth features, jammer detection and inclement weather modes. Perhaps this will keep Mike Valentine busy for a while.
Cuffed and stuffed, car impounded and then told to find his own way home after being released at 3am, the innocent man, Eric Kingkopf, a 57 year-old school teacher, was eventually repaid $190 to cover his cab ride and impound fees. The only good thing to come out of this is that New Hampshire’s lawmakers quickly moved to begin consideration of a bill to modify toll road penalties.
Sources: theNewspaper, WMUR
Given the story above, this past weekend’s tragic Ocala M5 accident and various remarks sent my way since the 31:04 NY-LA Run, it’s been hard to keep a silent, straight face when it comes to road safety…then I read The Truth About Cars’ piece linked above.
I love TTAC. Jalopnik is snarky. Autoblog is newsy. But TTAC editorializes on serious topics without irony, and sometimes hits home so honestly, so clearly, that the logic of an argument can only be made clear by staring at pictures like those above, reading the story behind it, then starting at the picture once again.
As I did, after which I returned to ponder TTAC’s editorial on safety:
TTAC is pointing the way toward some terrible truths many have yet to face, but first, the short version of their story…
In light of the Ocala M5 Accident story now making the rounds here, here, here, here, here and here, I think it’s time I publish the first half of an editorial I’ve been working on for some time. Stand by…
Elderly drivers in the UK may face IQ tests to maintain licenses.
Source: autospies.com via pistonheads.com
Eight hundred and seventy thousand for a license plate? Worth it! And then he puts it on a McLaren-Mercedes SLR? Wouldn’t a McLaren F1 be more appropriate? At least the money went to a good cause, a charity to raise the standards of young drivers, a dark irony considering the previous post.
Source: Autospies
Just hours before the accident, the driver of the car was on the M5board asking members how to make his new M5 shift more smoothly. Despite the warnings from other members to drive safely, the 18 year-old would later lose his life and those of four other occupants when the car launced off a berm at the end of the airstrip and crashed into a tree. Go to: ocala.com, foxnews or jalopnik for more…
If they won’t, then why are the Prius and other small cars selling so well and ultimately helping Toyota nudge GM from the top spot? Lutz said consumer behaviour is difficult to change and that change might only come if gas were in the European range of $8 a gallon. Well, thanks to Peak Oil, $8 a gallon will come sooner than most people realize. Maybe he’s one of the few CEO’s who hasn’t read Matthew Simmons’, "Twilight in the Desert," or "The Long Emergency," by Howard Kuntsler or seen "The End of Suburbia," or any other books and documentaries about the End of the Age of Oil. Buyer behaviour will change because people won’t have much choice.
Source: Autoweek
