Learning to Drive Again
I let my driver's license expire. For years, it didn't seem like such a big deal. Frankly, not driving had some nice benefits: Riding in the passenger's seat was the one time in my life I could relax.
I let my driver's license expire. For years, it didn't seem like such a big deal. Frankly, not driving had some nice benefits: Riding in the passenger's seat was the one time in my life I could relax.
The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood and Michael Grass | Posted 05.17.2012
WASHINGTON -- Google showed off its driverless car during a demonstration Thursday morning outside its offices on New York Avenue NW downtown. The ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 05.10.2012
Gas prices have been falling for five consecutive weeks, defying prognosticators who said the cost would soar to a national average of $5 a gallon. ...
Myra Demeter | Posted 05.08.2012
We just returned from our first weekend away from home since my husband's stroke 20 months ago.
Phineas Baxandall | Posted 04.13.2012
More than older generations, they say that they will sometimes choose to take alternative transportation as a way to help the environment. Will our leaders notice this important trend? You wouldn't know it looking at Congress.
Barbara Greenberg | Posted 04.12.2012
The next time you think to yourself --"those teenagers" -- try to think of the teens in the above stories and feel pride in what teens are capable of.
Kristina Groves | Posted 04.05.2012
I'm advocating a mind shift in how we live our lives, and believe that an alarmingly simple change in the way we structure our time can drastically improve our quality of life.
The Huffington Post | Catherine New | Posted 04.03.2012
The quintessential dream of waking up on your sixteenth birthday to find a new car adorned with a big red bow parked in the driveway is now a thing of...
Jena Kingsley | Posted 05.19.2012
Three miles on this road? But its going in a direction totally opposite of the city. I mean, my GPS is from England. Does she really know her way around here? But her voice... it's so... calming.
Phineas Baxandall | Posted 04.04.2012
The agenda for transportation advanced by the House this week flies directly in the face of clear trends in how Americans are choosing to travel.
Gabe Zichermann | Posted 03.05.2012
While coming up shy of a complete ban, the NTSB report was sobering to say the least. Of course, changing this kind of behavior with "traditional" approaches will come up against serious challenges.
Rebecca Anderson | Posted 01.28.2012
If you're traveling over the holidays and you can't pack the whole family into the car (or better yet, bus or, my personal favorite, train), here are a few things you can do to lighten your carbon load.
BootsnAll | Posted 01.24.2012
While many of Europe's most alluring spots can be reached by train, others require you to hit the highway and (sometimes literally) take the road less traveled in order to fully appreciate them.
Marcy Cole, Ph.D. | Posted 01.17.2012
Experiencing anger is part of the human experience. It is what we choose to do with it that determines whether it will lead to a breakdown or breakthrough.
Travel + Leisure | Posted 12.20.2011
Which cities' drivers strike fear in the hearts of visitors? In a new survey, Travel + Leisure readers lived to tell. Wendy Peck once spent a year d...
Infrastructurist | Posted 01.09.2012
Road researchers have noticed that driving in major cities has reached an unexpected plateau, a phenomenon known as "peak car use."
www.cracked.com | Posted 01.07.2012
Complaining about bad drivers is probably the third most common talking point of every hack comic, right after airline food and how weird the opposite...
Travel + Leisure | Posted 12.23.2011
These roads may not be household names, but they are an integral part of the American fabric. Highway 31, west of New Orleans, takes you through classic Louisiana countryside, past lazy bayous and swampy lagoons filled with alligators and herons.
Posted 12.20.2011
Boston-based baby boomers hoping to cruise smoothly into their golden years might soon be able to make that journey in a more personalized way -- lite...
The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011
WASHINGTON -- Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier agrees with the District of Columbia's law on expired car license tags, but admits tha...
AP | By CHRISTOPHER TOOTHAKER | Posted 12.08.2011
CARACAS, Venezuela -- A part of Venezuela's capital is giving dangerous drivers the silent treatment, sending mimes into the streets to do what police...
Terry Kelhawk | Posted 12.05.2011
American women take for granted, and sometimes even bemoan, the soccer-mom type need for driving themselves and others around on errands. Yet for years, my Saudi friends in America have held out this commonplace activity as a hope.
Steve Heilig | Posted 11.29.2011
Jerry Brown flubbed a big one this month when he vetoed a bill that would have significantly increased fines for using a cell phone for talk or texting while driving.
AP | By ANN M. JOB | Posted 11.28.2011
-- Luxury brand Infiniti finally joins the gasoline-electric hybrid car market with the 2012 M35h that's rated 38 percent more fuel efficient overall...
The Daily Meal | Posted 11.06.2011
It's hard to imagine, but if common wisdom is to be believed, the drive-in restaurant precedes McDonald's by about 19 years. See, the first McDonald'...
Judith Greenberg, Ph.D. | Posted 05.24.2012