How to Avoid Pothole Damage to Your Car
It’s a spring thing. April showers bring May flowers. And potholes. Here’s how to avoid pothole damage to your vehicle, which can cost repair bills from an average $300 to more than $1,000.
Top Ten Steepest USA Streets
If you think the steepest streets in the USA are in San Fransisco, you would be wrong. A list of the ten steepest streets by an outfit called Infographics rates the Waipio Road in Hawaii, in the historic Waipio Valley, as the steepest, at an astounding 45% angle. That’s steeper than some of the steepest
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Alcohol and Hot Weather Don’t Mix
Alcohol and hot weather can be an especially dangerous mix. Drinking impairs judgment and increases risk-taking any time. In hot weather, you add the potential risk of heat stroke caused by dehydration. That’s because alcohol lowers the body’s tolerance for heat and acts as a diuretic, meaning it causes the body to lose more fluid
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Safe Driving Tips for Rain & Hurricanes
Hurricane season brings battering winds, torrential rains and potentially dangerous wet and flooded roads, as do heavy rainstorms. These safe driving tips for rain and hurricane season could save a life – yours, a passenger, pedestrian or those in another vehicle. Know also that some higb-tech safety systems like lane departure warnings may not work
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Black Friday Vehicle Safety Tips
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday deals start the holiday shopping season – and also the season when your become a treasure trove for thieves. These basic common sense vehicle safety tips and reminders will help keep your vehicle – and any valuables inside it – safe and secure from “smash and grab”
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Women Learn to Drive in Saudi Arabia
When Saudi Arabia announced recently it would let women drive – finally – the historic decision to grant driver’s licenses to women was headline news around the world. Now, Nissan is helping some of the millions of Saudi women who have been only passengers in their lifetimes learn safe driving skills, with a surprise group
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3 Reasons to Avoid Speeding
With the peak summer driving season underway, it’s a good time to be reminded about the dangers and costs of speeding.
New driving safety blog for parents launched by Bridgestone tires
Bridgestone has launched a new FREE safety driving safety blog for parents called Driving…With Children, focusing on how to handle the many distractions parents experience with driving, car safety with children of all ages, including teens. You’re driving when Susie drops her sippy cup, again, or Johnny begs you to punch the ‘play’ button on the
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