June 7, 2010
Video: Why you should always stop at Toll booths
A suspected drunk driver has been caught on video taking a rather unusual route at a US toll booth – going over rather than through.
The Dukes of Hazzard-style jump was caught on camera at the north toll plaza on the way out of Dallas Fort Worth airport last week.
The driver caught the concrete divider that separates one toll booth from another, which launched the Chevrolet Impala into a barrel-roll jump. The car then clipped the top of the toll booth before landing on the other side as a fiery wreck.
Fortunately the toll booth operator wasn’t hurt at all, while the driver – Yasmine Villisana – amazingly suffered only minor injuries.
We suppose the moral of the story is that you’d better be careful about the in-flight movies you watch – it might give you strange ideas. Although Dukes of Hazzard was probably a better choice than Die Hard would have been…*
*we joke – we have no idea whether Ms Villisana had even been on a flight, let alone her choice of in-flight entertainment…
April 30, 2010
Driver has lucky escape after poor parking
A 67-year-old Oklahoma man had quite a fright after backing his car at high speed through a seventh-floor exterior wall of a parking garage.
Ralph Hudson says his foot got stuck between his Mercedes’ brake and gas pedal as he was backing up in a towering parking garage in downtown Tulsa on Wednesday.
The car burst through the building’s exterior wall and sprayed debris on a parking lot below before stopping just in time. The car’s trunk and part of its back wheels were left hanging precariously out of the building but officials were able to safely drive it back inside.
No injuries were reported. Police officer Jason Willingham says Hudson was not ticketed over the incident.
February 3, 2010
Why drivers need to learn to be green
The head of engine development Oscar Bonet believes that drivers need to learn to drive green if we are to meet are strict CO2 targets.
Technological developments over the last few years have made the latest reductions feasible.
“Reducing friction within the engine and reducing overall weight of the engine are still our biggest challenges,” said Bonet.
“But if drivers don’t know how to drive economically the real benefits of what we do are lost.”
He calculated that the Leon Ecomotive with its 55-litre fuel tank has a potential range of 1450Km. with a average motorist driving 15,000km a year, this could equate to filling the car 11 times a year.
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