CAR AND DRIVER TIPS — Tip #10- Stopping a Runaway Car
In recent months news reports have surfaced of runaway cars complete with grisly details of accidents that have occurred as a result. In some cases police dispatchers can be heard offering counsel to those who automobiles are speeding down a highway out of [...]

Everyone who drives has had at least one run-in with a discourteous driver.,  In recent years experiences such as these had led to a new phenomenon called “Road Rage.” Sad to say, awful experiences as a result of outrageous acts perpetrated against other drivers have resulted in damage to property, injury to drivers and passengers [...]

Have you ever ridden with someone who seemed to think his or her car was a wild bronco with the drivers only responsibility being to hold the reins? Its a fun experience only if you are a young kid and the driver has promised to let you drive next!
Most passengers in a motorcar, I [...]

Two days ago I was talking to a tow truck driver about his volume of calls this time of year. He said, a common call he receives in early spring is from homeowners who get stuck in their own yards.
I had a keen interest in what he was saying because, at the time, I [...]

Many highway accidents occur at rural crossroads. I, personally, exercise great caution at these very closely at all times. I consider this incumbent upon me as a responsible driver for the sake of my passengers, those I am approaching and myself. Let me tell you some of the precautions I exercise and [...]

You have probably seen television pictures of what happens to some drivers at the first snow of the season. Often these pictures will be of incidents and accidents in southerly areas where drivers seldom experience ice and snow driving.
The other day I saw one such picture. A mid-size car was shown, driving at a [...]

In years gone by, the situation on the highway was much different than it is now. As a young sailor, I hitchhiked many hundreds of miles. Later, driving on the open highway, when I had a problem, I wasn’t greatly alarmed. Even with my family with me, I felt little sense of [...]

CAR AND DRIVER TIPS
The tragic death this past week (December 6, 2006) of Mr. James Kim of Oregon gives focus for a suggestion you can use to save yourself when your car is stuck in mud or snow.
After several days of waiting at the site of their automobile at a road junction where its wheels [...]

Over the years of my driving career, now spanning well over five decades, hundreds of cars have passed me in parallel lanes in order to speed to the traffic signal ahead. Arriving there, the drivers await the instant the light changes to green in order to heavily accelerate toward the next light. Not [...]

Tip #1- Tire Pressure
You can be sure fuel prices will never be a real bargain again such as we have known here in America for the past many years. Oil rich countries will see to that. Therefore, we need to be wise stewards of the use of our vehicles.
Let me give you a [...]