Navigating the Los Angeles area and avoiding traffic is a difficult enough proposition, but it must be especially scary this week for people fleeing or trying to steer clear of… Read More
OK, forget Halloween for a second. You want to know what’s scary in Seattle these days? Try on this new report about how long and stressful the daily commute is… Read More
A new law that prohibits Washington drivers from using personal electronics behind the wheel took effect July 23 and in the first week, state troopers pulled over 337 offenders. Fortunately… Read More
On his Wednesday morning commute, a Seattle man did something we’re probably all guilty of from time-to-time. He checked his email while waiting at a long stoplight. Unfortunately for him,… Read More
Seattle commuters might find this difficult to believe, but when it comes to traffic, it could be much worse. In fact, there are 22 cities worldwide where drivers spend more time… Read More
Seattle’s traffic system is buckling under the weight of so many newcomers. Many of the traffic signals were built before Seattle’s tech-driven boom attracted record numbers of transplants to the… Read More
Text-message senders, beware: U.S. courts are moving ever-closer to blaming the sender of a text for car accidents that occur when the recipient is driving and texting back. How could… Read More
Traffic, like root canals, mosquitos, and papercuts, is a universally hated phenomenon. So it stands to reason that an app for “outsmarting traffic together” would be adopted as a win… Read More
In May of last year, I finally pulled the trigger: I got rid of my car, a 2013 Honda Civic. I was paying an exorbitant amount for parking as a… Read More
Siri may seem like the safest way to interact with information while driving, but according to a new report from AAA, Apple’s virtual assistant is a menace when it comes… Read More
Jean Quan might want to put her smartphone away while driving. The Oakland mayor was involved in a minor accident Sunday evening with another vehicle. There are conflicting reports over who… Read More
If you’re one of the anointed few who has been given the opportunity to try Google Glass, you might want to avoid wearing them behind the wheel. Cecilia Abadie, a… Read More
When Flutter, a startup that works on using gestures to control functions in your computer’s media player, announced that it was acquired by Google yesterday, pundits everywhere rushed to try… Read More
Is Google Glass safe to use while driving? That question is generating lots of discussion in the tech industry following reports that officials in the UK are pre-emptively prohibiting the… Read More
After nearly one year of hard work and more than 60,000 hours of planning, building and testing, an engineering team from the University of Washington came away victorious at a… Read More
Race car drivers all share one thing in common: To cross the finish line in as little time as possible. Seattle-based AutoSport Labs is helping them do that with some pretty… Read More
Lots of online mapping services tell people how to get someplace. A new Google Maps mashup, developed by Seattle-based Clarian Labs, also tells drivers how fast (or slow) they should… Read More