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Microsoft Word - Report on cars final 7-31-06.doc 

Fewer Americans like to drive, survey shows Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids? FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Paul Taylor, Executive Vice President ... Cary Funk, Senior Project Director Peyton Craighill, Project Director MEDIA INQUIRIES CONTACT: Pew Research Center 202 419 4332 http://pewresearch.org 1 Americans and Their Cars: Is the Romance on the Skids? Any nation with more passenger vehicles than licensed drivers has a pretty serious love affair with the automobile. But the romance seems to be cooling off a bit—a casualty of its own intensity. Today 69% of American drivers say they like to drive, down from 79% in a 1991 Gallup survey. And just 23% say they consider their car “something special—more than just a way to get around,” barely half of the 43% who felt this way in 1991. The biggest reason for the cooling of the affair isn’t the recent spike in gas prices. Rather, it appears to be the result of a longer term trend—the growing hassle of traffic congestion, according   [More...] [Less...]

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NAVIGATION SYSTEMS SERIOUSLY UNDERMINE ROAD SAFETY Software errors are being ignored ... Research report of Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen Reportnumber: nav-001 - (English version) The Hague, The Netherlands, December 10th, 2007 Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen Muzenstraat 89 2511WB The Hague, The Netherlands K.v.K. Den Haag 27307175 E-mail: secretariaat@stichtingonderzoeknavigatiesystemen.nl Website: www.stichtingonderzoeknavigatiesystemen.nl The purpose of Stichting Onderzoek Navigatiesystemen is defined as follows in the articles of association: 1. The foundation serves the purpose of conducting comparative research on the market for navigation systems, at home and abroad, and carrying out any activity in any way related to or in support of this purpose. 2. The foundation covers a wide range of activities in achieving its objective and may conduct c   [More...] [Less...]

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Nabbed for speeding? GPS data could get you off the hook 

As anyone who has ever gotten a speeding ticket knows (full disclosure: I never have... knock on wood), you often have very little ammo to fight back against ... the reading that the all-knowing radar gun spat out. But thanks to more sophisticated and affordable technology, that could be changing. A California teen is using GPS data to attempt to get himself off the hook for allegedly going 17 miles per hour over the speed limit, simultaneously casting doubt on the accuracy of police radars and giving hope to tech-savvy drivers. The story started out simply enough. 18-year-old Shaun Malone was caught by a police radar going 62 in a 45 mph zone last summer. Under most circumstances, most people would assume that this was all simply true—it's not unheard of for teenagers to speed, after all. Malone's parents knew differently, though. It turns out that they had installed a GPS device from Rocky Mountain Tracking in his car in order to monitor his driving behavior. But this was far more sophis   [More...] [Less...]