With Tesla, Google, and Amazon making new innovations every day, the car of 2025 looks like it will be an extraordinarily safe and green machine. How about a solar powered car? Or a car that parks itself, drives itself, and communicates with other vehicles on the road? Things that are just fancy features today, like back-up cameras and zero-emission engines, will be mandated by many state and federal laws in the future.
Commercial vehicle drivers can drive most any vehicle on the road today from passenger vehicles to buses and tractor trailers. Owners and operators of large commercial trucks and passenger buses need to obtain a Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) before entering the field as a commercial driver.
U.S. commuters spend approximately two days each year stuck in traffic, and more than 30,000 people die each year in car accidents. Autonomous vehicles could vastly improve condition. With a self-driving future not too far down the road, Swift Navigation has commissioned the following infographic, “Approaching the Age of Autonomous Vehicles”.
The following infographic from TitleMax.com takes a look back at all civil vehicles that our Presidents had and still have. As you will see, vehicles of the head of the country are not limited to just automobiles. The Presidential garage has been long extended to airplanes, yachts, and even a bus.
Gas prices have shocked Americans at the pump for the last ten years or more. Really, since the early to mid 1970’s, gas prices have been rising and spiking quite frequently. It’s only in recent years that prices have settled and fallen. Prices at the pump in 2015 felt very similar to those in 1929 when you compare them both in 2015 dollars.
For nearly 100 years, auto makers around the world have been creating exciting concept cars for what their vision is of the future of the passenger car. Unfortunately, we never really lived up to those expectations. Even some of the ground-breaking features seen in concept cars in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s, still haven’t been seen in a commercially released vehicle to date.
For those new to winter driving, handling highways with snow and ice may be daunting. There are some tips and tricks to winter driving to keep you safe no matter the weather, but they start with proper preparation. Whether you are a novice snow driver or driving in snowy conditions is old hat, staying prepared will keep you and other drivers safe behind the wheel.
With Cars becoming more like smartphones nowadays, the folks at Select Car Leasing take a look at the growing concern of car hacking, a phenomenon that’s sending chill up motorists’ and manufacturers’ spines across the globe, more efficiently than any air-conditioning unit could. More importantly, they will tell you what the world’s governing agencies are doing to help eradicate car hacking and what you can do to prevent your car from being hacked.
With Uber seemingly always in the news nowadays, the team at Select Car Leasing thought they’d look into the motoring phenomenon and bring you some of the most intriguing stats you may not have known about the world’s largest transportation network company, as well as its funding timeline and it’s top 10 destinations of all time.
Jumping a car battery is not hard once you learn how to do it. The main concern is not just knowing which cable goes to which battery post, but also how to do it safely. Keep in mind when using jumper cables that there is a dangerous amount of electrical power running through them. But when taking the right precautions, using jumper cables is perfectly safe, so be prepared and handle the cables carefully.
