Highway vs. Aviation Safety
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the nation’s highways are safer than in years past. Assuming you’re in a car, that is. Apparently if you’re driving a truck or walking, somehow the trend is going in the wrong direction. Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) — The number of people killed on U.S. highways fell for the fifth consecutive year in 2010, marking the longest streak of declines since records began in 1899. Fatalities dropped 2.9 percent to 32,885, the lowest since 1949, the Washington-based National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said today in an e-mailed statement. Deaths of motorcyclists, pedestrians and large-truck occupants increased. A Los Angeles Times article quotes the NHTSA as calling this number...
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To those of you who said I’d never get a new car — and I know there are a lot of you out there — feast your eyes on this: Yeah baby! It’s a 2008 Honda Accord LX-S Coupe. I’ve been waiting for this car to hit the showroom floor since I first saw photos of the concept vehicle at the auto shows last year. In my opinion, it’s one of the best looking automobiles on the market today, and you can get them for around $21,000. Mine’s a base model four-cylinder with 190 hp. Any more horsepower and I’d be getting speeding tickets right and left. Now I’ll just be getting them left. The navigation system, leather seats, moonroof and XM radio push the price closer to $30,000, so I went with the base model and certainly...
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