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Driving in Traffic is as Stressful as Jumping Out of a Plane?

Big Jim — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 13:03:44 +0000

If you’re too scared to go skydiving, here’s something that might make you feel like less of a coward. Driving during rush hour is just as good. A new study out of MIT found that driving in bad traffic causes the same stress in your body as jumping out of an airplane. We’re thinking it [...]

Does Casper Need More Residential Stop Signs? [POLL]

Ian Delap — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:49:09 +0000

Casper's residential areas have no doubt seen an increase in traffic in the past few years. Expanding business parks, a steady growing population, and congested main streets have pushed more traffic to the residential areas. Despite this surge, I still notice a lot of "4-way-go" intersections where accidents are impending everyday. Does Casper need more residential stops signs?

Shocking Report Shows Just How Bad Traffic Is in America

Drew Weisholtz — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 23:26:27 +0000

Everyone hates traffic. Now there’s reason to hate it even more. A new study has found that Americans wasted $121 billion in gas in 2011, because of traffic. We also sat in our cars an extra 5.5 billion hours that year because of traffic. And the average American wasted an average of $818 in 2011 [...]

Stuck In Rush Hour Traffic? Let Ford Drive You To Work

George Roush — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 23:00:31 +0000

We all experience it — That frustrating time of day when you know you’re going to be stuck in rush hour traffic. Held to the mercy of the freeway gods as you crawl your way to work, tiring out that right leg as you constantly stop and accelerate, while swearing at the guy in the [...]

Loud Traffic Isn't Just Annoying — It's So Dangerous It Could Give You a Heart Attack

Don Deane — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:00:23 +0000

There’s no denying that loud noise from traffic is annoying, but who knew it actually has the potential to cause you physical harm? According to a new study from Denmark, the louder traffic is near a person’s home, the greater their risk of a heart attack. Researchers studied 50,000 participants over the course of almost [...]

Man Rides Lawnmower in Traffic, Unsurprisingly Gets DUI

Don Deane — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:30:19 +0000

Getting arrested for DUI must be bad enough, but imagine the additional embarrassment of getting busted for drunk driving on a lawnmower. That’s what happened to a 69-year-old man in Wisconsin last Saturday. Police came upon Charles Gray while he was riding a lawnmower down a busy stretch of highway. At first, Gray refused to [...]

Upcoming App Tells You How Much Time Is Left on Traffic Lights

Jeremy Taylor — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:01 +0000

Researchers at MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone app called SignalGuru that will tell drivers exactly how much time they have to make the next light. The app, which has been successfully tested in neighborhoods in the US and Singapore, uses dashboard-mounted smartphone cameras to record whether a light is green, yellow or red. When combined with traffic [...]