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V8 Supercar champ in Australia wants kids to learn to drive at age 12. How about you? [w/poll]

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Filed under: Motorsports , Etc. , Government/Legal , Safety , Australia Albert Einstein has commonly been quoted as saying that stupidity (or insanity, depending on your source) is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Which begs the question, with over 100 years of traffic enforcement behind us, why are we still relying on the same methods of catch and punish to modify driver behavior?

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LaHood launches first federally funded distracted driving crackdown campaigns in CT and NY [w/video]

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Marketing/Advertising , Safety , Videos The NHTSA is combatting distracted driving – Click above to watch the video Starting on April 8 in Syracuse, NY and April 10 in Hartford, CT, drivers who are caught using a cell phone behind the wheel can expect to get a little more familiar with the local justice system. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has given the official go-ahead on a pilot program aimed at curbing distracted driving , and police in those localities will be pulling over anyone they see texting or using a cell phone without a hands-free device. They’ve even come up with a catchy slogan for the crackdown: “Phone in one hand. Ticket in the other.” Residents in the greater Syracuse and Hartford areas have likely been seeing a number of ads urging drivers to put down the phone since the first of April

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Report: Carbon Motors still awaiting Fed loan approval, hoping to have first patrols on streets in 2013

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Filed under: Government/Legal , Plants/Manufacturing , Earnings/Financials , Police/Emergency , Specialty Carbon Motors E7 – Click above for high-res image gallery Carbon Motors Corp. plans to deliver its first police car in 2013 – assuming the company’s request for a $310 million loan from the U.S. Department of Energy is approved. As we mentioned nearly three years ago , Carbon is diving into the rarefied purpose-built vehicle segment with the goal of delivering thousands of its “E7″ police cars to municipalities across the country, powered by a BMW twin-turbo inline-six diesel engine

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BREAKING: First images of Ford’s new Taurus-based Police Interceptor revealed!

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Filed under: Sedan , Government/Legal , Ford , Specialty 2012 Ford Police Interceptor – Click above for high-res image gallery Later today, Ford will officially unveil its new Police Interceptor at a private fleet sales event in Las Vegas, but the first images of the new vehicle were posted this morning on the company’s website. As has been rumored for some time, Ford will be adapting the Taurus to take over for the aged Crown Victoria, which is finally being euthanized in September 2011. At this point, we don’t have any mechanical details on the new cop car.

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DetNews: New Ford Police Interceptor to be Taurus-based

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Filed under: Concept Cars , Sedan , Work , Ford , Specialty Will the new Police Interceptor be a toughened Taurus SHO? – click above for high-res image gallery Just a quick note: The Detroit News is reporting that the next Ford Police Interceptor will be based on the same platform as the Taurus . For you platform geeks out there, that’s the Ford D3 chassis that underpins everything from the the Lincoln MKS to the Volvo XC90 to the Ford Flex (though the Flex and the Lincoln MKT ride on a lengthened version called D4 ).

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