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Watch ‘Texting While Driving’ Get Put to the Test, Literally

What if you were forced to text and drive at the same time?

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What Stereotype? Women Are Better Than Men at Parking, Study Finds

Men might be able to zip into a parking space more quickly, but when it comes to accuracy, women win.

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Reading While Eating for December 28: Because I Said So

Wednesday’s links are good at grieving but bad at being intimidating.

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New Auto Technology Can Tell When You’re ‘Driving While Drowsy’

In the age of multilingual GPS devices, driver seat massages and cruise control navigation, it was only a matter of time before manufacturers developed drowsy driver alerts.

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Report: America’s Worst Drivers Live in Washington

The U.S. capital may be infamous for political dysfunction, but it seems the breakdown extends to its roads, too.

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Quote: Joe Biden Says Not Driving Is ‘The One Thing I Hate’ About Being Vice President

“I’m not allowed to drive anything. It’s the one thing I hate about this job. I’m serious.” — VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, in an interview with Car and Driver, on his love for cars and his frustration that the Secret Service forbids him to drive (via Car and Driver)

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Study: Drivers Are Dangerously Distracted By Their Dogs

Man’s best friend may not be the best driving companion.

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Rebel on the Road: Saudi Woman Protests Driving Ban

A Saudi housewife protested her nation’s driving ban by taking to the roads – for four days straight.

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Look Ma, No Hands: Watch As Italian Bus Driver Uses Two Phones Behind the Wheel

That takes skill, even when you’re not steering a 20,000-pound vehicle.

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Jesus, Take the Wheel: Polish Catholic Church to Pray for Nation’s Drivers

Nothing says anti-Catholic virtue as much as road rage, or so it seems in Poland. The Polish Catholic Church has organized a national day of prayer for the nation’s drivers.