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Driveway blocking, driveway encroachment, the hinderance of residential driveway ingress and egress – call it what you like – is one of the most common driving transgressions. That means there are a lot of unhappy people out there. It happens so frequently on my street in…

Canadians love to honk their horns. In recovery-speak we are horn-dependent. We are a nation of honkers. We stand on guard to honk. It makes sense, given there are so many Canadian geese flying around honking. Honking is not restricted to urban environments. You…

It’s fall and the leaves are changing colour. Trees are aflame with red, orange, gold and brown. Sunshine lights up the Canadian countryside into a dazzling display while the cities look dressed up for autumn. So why are the cars so boring? Meanwhile, cars…

Meet 23-year-old Philadelphia resident Dimple Patel. On Sept. 3, the pre-med student was charged with homicide by vehicle while DUI, homicide by vehicle, involuntary manslaughter, DUI and a slew of other offenses in connection with the deaths of two men on the I-95 in…

Prior to GPS, I would get lost because when my wife, reading the TripTik we ordered from CAA, would tell me to “turn left on Beaver Street and then keep right on South Center Street” I would not believe her and just keep going….

While it’s a small sample – 745 Ontarians and 235 Albertans – its findings are intriguing. The survey defines road rage as “honking, flashing lights, obscene gesturing, tailgating, slamming brakes, colliding into another vehicle intentionally, rolling down the window to yell at or cutting…

It all begins with its beaches. Tropea offers some of the most welcoming in the Mediterranean, among them Il Palombaro, Cannone and Mare Grande. We spent most of our days on la spiaggia della rotonda, a 15-minute walk from Palazzo Mottola that includes a steep…

Social media howled at the latest instalment of Autopilot outrage. It showed the driver of a Tesla, in what appeared to be a state of deep slumber, motoring along the Queen Elizabeth Way in southern Ontario while the vehicle used Autopilot to navigate. Of course,…

f you want to play, you’ve got to pay. You won’t find this philosophy written in the margins of our Charter of Rights and Freedoms, nor carved into the base of the Statue of Liberty, but it permeates most of our post-capitalist-midday-Marxist-pre-apocalypse society. Congestion…

There are trips and there are drives. Trips are made back and forth without much fanfare. You make a “trip” to the store. Drives leave an impression. Drives are tied to an occasion or special destination. You’ll always remember the first time you drove…