Car recalls take on varying degrees of severity, but as a rule, it’s probably better to get your car fixed for free than to leave the car not injuring you because of the safety recall up to chance. Faulty airbags, compromised brake lines, windshield wipers that can malfunction and start engine fires. Consequences of these going unchecked shouldn’t be tempted. Look at the following recent footage from a couple in South Korea who were victims of sudden acceleration:

The catalytic converter is my favorite car part to say. It rolls off the tongue like cheese from a fondue fork onto a baguette. Plus they’re important. Catalytic converters control the chemicals and compounds that can compromise the smell of your car’s interior. (Try saying that out loud and tell me it’s not fun to say.)

Google, the pioneering company that empowers millions of corporate workers to not remember anything, has been trying to extend its “let us think about it for you with our algorithms” ethos to cars. And Nevada just handed over permission to Google to test its non-think technology on the state’s long, hot, dusty roads.

I thought there were only two routes to securing a new iPad. Buying one the traditional way, either through a store or ordering one on-line, is method one. Method two involves being opportunistic and poaching one from someone who’s unaware their iPad is being watched. A lot of folks like to commute with the iPad tucked under their arms, and even more like to sit by café exits reading on them.

If you’re going to be elitist, might as well do it in California.

When you read about businesses realizing impressive “returns on investment”, it’ll be difficult to find anything beating car maker’s marketing to Baby Boomers. A recent study from JD Power and Associates confirms this, and also provides evidence that the younger generation (those pesky Millennials) are harder than ever to convince of the merits of car ownership.

Is there a more intriguing place than Russia? Putin and communism and fascism and oligarchs and vodka! Siberia and the gulag and the Kremlin and corruption!

A lot goes through my mind when I’m driving. How much I hate traffic. How much I hate the person in the left lane based only on their face. Why people insist on going to Disney World for their family vacation every year. Whether or not Hartford will get the Whalers back.

A New Study and Bonnie Tyler Remind Us How To Turn Safely and Properly

If we’re going to pay tolls on our highways, at least we have the EZ-Pass. Tolls can be cheaper depending what state you’re traveling in, and having an EZ-Pass provides for a good laugh at people who’ve been too stubborn to sign up for the transponders. (The westbound off-ramp on the Massachusetts Turnpike at Sturbridge serves as a perfect example of this; you save at least ten minutes of traveling time when volume is nauseating and you’re an EZ-Pass customer.)

Not to be outdone by “Plugged In”, the Ford and Yahoo reality television union, or the “2012 Electric Car Challenge”, the Ford (again!) and Men’s Health cross country road trip contest, the great Bay State of Massachusetts is trying to reap some extra revenue out of electric (and hybrid!) vehicles.