Research shows cellphone use may not cause more car crashes

Research shows cellphone use may not cause more car crashes

Research shows cellphone use may not cause more car crashes

For almost twenty years, it has been a wide-held belief that talking on a cellphone while driving is dangerous and leads to more accidents. However, fresh research from Carnegie Mellon University and the London School of Economics and Political Science suggests that talking on a cellphone while driving does not increase crash risk. Read More

Uncommon chance to see Formula one cars in Fresh Zealand – Hampton Downs

Uncommon chance to see Formula one cars in Fresh Zealand – Hampton Downs

Infrequent chance to see Formula one cars in Fresh Zealand

Frank Lyons was at Silverstone in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven when James Hunt won the British Grand Prix in a McLaren M26 F1. “If you’d told me back then that I would own James Hunt’s car one day I’d have said there was more chance of me being struck by lightning,” says the Englishman. Read More

Portland, OR News, Weather, Traffic, Sports, Oregon – KPTV – FOX 12

Portland, OR News, Weather, Traffic, Sports, Oregon – KPTV – FOX 12

Portland, OR News, Weather, Traffic, Sports | Oregon – KPTV – FOX 12

Fire Weather WARNING in effect for: East Slopes of the Central Oregon Coast Range, OR

Fire Weather WARNING in effect for: Mt. Rubber hood National Forest – West of Cascade Crest, OR

Fire Weather WARNING in effect for: North Oregon Coast Range, OR

Fire Weather WARNING in effect for: Willamette Valley, OR

Eagle Creek Fire in Columbia Sea Gorge at about Trio,000 acres, zero containment

Oregon State Police said the cause of the fire is man-made, potentially from the misuse of fireworks. Read More

One dead as car strikes crowds amid protests of white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville; two police die in helicopter crash – The Washington Post

One dead as car strikes crowds amid protests of white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville; two police die in helicopter crash – The Washington Post

One dead as car strikes crowds amid protests of white nationalist gathering in Charlottesville; two police die in helicopter crash

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CHARLOTTESVILLE — Chaos and violence turned to tragedy Saturday as hundreds of white nationalists, neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members — planning to stage what they described as their largest rally in decades to “take America back” — clashed with counterprotesters in the streets and a car plowed into crowds, leaving one person dead and nineteen others injured. Read More

North Spokane resident finds vehicle vandalized

North Spokane resident finds vehicle vandalized

North Spokane resident finds vehicle vandalized

A North Spokane man says he woke up to find his SUV trashed, he believes by the guys he chased down last week for attempting to break into cars. (6-20-17)

SPOKANE, Wash – A North Spokane man woke up to his car vandalized Tuesday morning.

Brett Faison, holder of the vehicle, said the vandals broke his car window with a bucket of sand. Read More

Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi head sees self-driving dominance in five years

Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi head sees self-driving dominance in five years

Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi head sees self-driving dominance in five years

Autonomous cars will predominate the streets by 2022, according to Nissan-Renault-Mitsubishi Alliance Chairman Carlos Ghosn.

The hard, which has an established autonomous car program, wants to give drivers control of their cars; their autonomous cars are not driverless cars — instead, drivers can determine when they want to drive and when they want the car to drive for them. Read More