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Ford planning a car parents will love

All I can say is that I'm sure glad they didn't have this system when I was a teenager. Ford is introducing a system that allows parents to control a vehicle's maximum speed, limit the radio volume, and even ensure that seatbelts are worn. All of ...

Heated seats not so good for wanna-be dads

Most machinery works best when kept cool, be it mechanical, electronic, or even biological. Your car's engine has a cooling system that's pretty darn important (he writes with an experienced air) and your computers really belong in an air-conditioned ...

Cars that drive themselves: family trips will never be the same

I've never been a fabulous driver. Although I've only ever totaled one car (when I was 18 and scatterbrained and oh, man, I hope my Dad doesn't still remember that), I've almost had several accidents, largely in the last two years. I blame this ...

The Auto Show 2007

On the last day of November, which happened to be my birthday, I picked Jared up early from school (his class had been on a field trip all day and I didn't think they get much learning done in that last hour) and we hopped on the streetcar to go ...

Changing your oil -- so easy, an eleven-year-old can do it

I'm not good with mechanical things. I mean, I understand the concepts behind the internal combustion engine. I've seen the drawings in the manuals. I get it. Really. But when I pop the hood and look inside the engine compartment, it doesn't look ...

Going to the auto show

Pretty much from the moment we left Moscone center in downtown San Francisco last November, Jared was asking me when we could go back to the auto show. I told him that we would go again next year. Well, once again, it's November and that means it's ...

What do you look for in a family vehicle?

A while back, it seemed like the only thing that mattered about a new car was the number of cupholders it had. You could have made a vehicle that seated ten, got a hundred miles to the gallon, and handled like a Ferrari, but if it didn't have at ...

UK considers banning cars from school zones

Our friends over at Auto Blog are all about the cars. We, of course, are all about the kids. When cars and kids collide - well, that's a bad thing. Surprisingly, that's not the reason the UK's Institute for European Environmental Policy is looking ...

DVD Players can be deadly

We made it to Disneyland and back without resorting to the use of a DVD player in the car, although we did have one with us just in case. We did the same going to Calistoga recently and to Yosemite last year. Personally, I would rather the kids look ...

Haynes' teenager manual

If you own a classic Land Rover, the chances are you own an oil-stained, ragged old copy of the relevant Haynes manual. While nowhere near as good as the official Land Rover shop manuals, they are significantly cheaper. For almost any vehicle you ...

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