Filed under: Videos , Humor Big city parking blows. You’re either fighting the vultures to get a spot on the street, or paying a king’s ransom to park off it. (Let’s not even talk about parking tickets .) And if you want to own a nice car? Fuhgeddaboudit
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Video: Parallel parking like a pro
Filed under: Aftermarket , Videos , Humor Ever been so mad in traffic you wish you had more than just a horn and a finger? Ben Hallert has your answer. It seems he got so tired of bad drivers that he decided to make his car horn sound a little more forceful. Now his Pontiac sounds like a line of cars blaring their horns.
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Video: Man creates multi-car horn emulator to better startle slowpokes
Filed under: Etc. , Europe , Safety , Videos Worst driver in The Netherlands – Click above to watch video after the jump We’ve seen some pretty bad ideas for reality TV shows come to fruition, but they all pale in comparison to De Allerslechtste chauffeur van Nederland? (Who Is The Worst Driver In The Netherlands?) – a concept that takes bad drivers and puts them behind the wheel in a series of contests. Show organizers apparently got their answer when a contestant identified as Pim mistook the accelerator for the brake, veered off course, took his hands from the wheel, covered his eyes, struck a car and ran down both a camera man and the show’s host
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Video: Netherlands’ worst driver proves it in graphic video
Filed under: Safety , Technology We all see bad drivers. Now, one company has developed an iPhone app called DriveMeCrazy, which allows you to digitally jot down a license plate and deem someone a “bad driver.” This information isn’t then simply posted to some lame social network, it’s reported to the DMV and your insurance company . While the idea of being able to report someone for driving like a jackass sounds great, there’s little question that this will lead to abuse. What if someone were out to get you and reported you simply because they felt like it?
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DriveMeCrazy app provides outlet for virtual tattle-tales
Filed under: Government/Legal , Technology , India It looks like drivers should be less concerned about their vehicles’ black boxes recording their every move, and more worried about their neighbors in traffic. Police in New Delhi have dished out 665 tickets for traffic violations, though not by using any traditional footwork. Instead, the local PD launched a Facebook page where fans can submit photos of bad drivers. With 6.5 million vehicles registered to drive on its roads, New Delhi is notoriously afflicted by motorists that tend to alternate between homicidal and suicidal.
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NYT: India’s police turning to Facebook to catch bad drivers
Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal , Safety How many bad drivers can you spot every day on your drive to work? Five? Ten
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Obvious: Survey says nearly one-in-five motorists "unfit" to drive