Winter Driving . . . in a Modern Car
Times have, as the saying goes, changed.
If you learned how to drive before - roughly - the mid-1980s, you probably learned how to drive in a car without anti-lock brakes or...
New Cars Are Sometimes Easier To Fix . . .
The conventional wisdom is that new cars are a maintenance nightmare - tough even for professional mechanics with all the right tools to service. There is a lot of truth to...
Huskeroos
Ah, the people of Wal-Mart.
The kids, too.
According to an article in the peer-reviewed journal, Pediatrics, about one out of every six children ages 1 to 6 is too beefy to...
If Things Are So Swell . . .
A canary may have just keeled over. Not in the coal mine - but in the stock market. Shares of Ford - healthiest of the Big Three automakers - are down...
The Price of Saaaaaafety
One of the very real negatives of modern car design is that even very minor impacts can cause major damage to the car.
Hit something in a late-model car at 10-20 MPH...
Bug Out Buggies
If things get bad, you will probably want to stay put - if where you are when things go bad is a relatively safe area. But what if you need to...
Asleep At The Wheel . . .
If you dislike driving - or just aren't very good at it - you may like the idea of the autonomous car.
In it, you become a passenger - as involved in...
Dead Pool II
I keep reading stories about how healthy the car industry is. If that's true, how come so many car brands have croaked recently? Since '08 at least seven have gone wheels...
Mike Valentine Responds
About a week ago, I did an article (here) about my V1 radar detector being triggered not by police radar but by the radar (and laser) signals emanating from many new...
Waterloo for the Radar Detector?
I love my V1 radar detector. It has without doubt saved me thousands that would otherwise been mulcted out of my hide by radar-trapping cops - and it has made driving...