The 407 in Toronto is an entirely electronic toll road, which is pretty cool. Unfortunately, if you don’t have a transponder, they charge you $4.15 for each trip they have to process via license plates. And the toll charge is 40¢ per kilometer.

Big part of the reason I use GPS if I’m even slightly unfamiliar with where I’m heading. If I miss the exit, it’s going to just give the next best option.

It’s not a “crash test rating,” it’s a safety rating. It’s the New Car Assessment Program, it the New Car Crashtest Program.

Just because some manufacturers implement these features poorly, it doesn’t mean the features are flawed at the conceptual level.

I don’t think it’s necessary to have a large car “just in case,” but if you’ll definitely use that space even several times a year, it’s probably worth it. For example, I wouldn’t enjoy a compact at all just because my dog is frequently my backseat passenger.

I think that’s the most important aspect: being proactive in managing your own treatment. They’re going to give you strict instructions, and if you feel like you need to deviate from these instructions in any way, you need to talk to them first.

In all seriousness, would minor paint repairs on an expensive car be massively more expensive than paint repairs on a cheaper car?

I bought a 10 month old Kia Optima last summer that barely had any miles on it. I flew in from out of town to pick it up, and my parents picked me up from the airport to take me to the dealership, so they were checking out the car with me. My mom was noticing some slight scratches and a couple of places where there…

Whoa, it looks like the type of lines humans drivers would get tripped up on as well (although a human will notice the divider). There’s a section of road near me where you can barely see the lane markings because it’s been a haaaarsh winter, and twice now I’ve gotten confused and realized I’m partially on the…

The three lane law isn’t weird. The left lane law refers to roads with “four lanes or more,” meaning the center lane law is referring to roads with three lanes total, aka with a center turn lane.

I’m originally from Pittsburgh but currently live in a mostly flat region in Ontario now. It being Canada, most people don’t have issues with driving in the snow, but I feel like I’m flying past everybody when I’m going up a hill in the snow since it’s unlike the other 95% of the time they’re driving.

Because points in the bike race are actually earned on the hills, and if you stop having forward motion on the hill, you have to start from the bottom to earn points.

I’m originally from Pittsburgh, and I just can’t comprehend this article. I’ve never had an issue even on roads where a sharp turn on a hill means that if you take the turn tightly, you’re going to bottom out.

I just looked up the NY Driver’s Manual and it had this to say:

I never said it was a defense of signatures, I was explaining why they were there in the first place and why they’re now gone. It’s almost as if things chance and we didn’t have sophisticated fraud detection algorithms 30 years ago.

I’ve convinced a few people to use Apple Pay just by explaining that the app basically creates a new one-time use credit card number for each transaction, so if there’s ever a breach at that retailer, the stolen number will be useless. That convinces a lot of people considering all the major breaches of large…

The point of the signature is for defending against chargebacks. If your card makes a large purchase at Walmart and then you request a chargeback, Walmart can produce the signature which corresponds to that transaction. Obviously it’s a flawed system, but it’s no longer even necessary since the card companies have…

On horizontal traffic lights, red is to the left and green is to the right. They’re no more difficult to read than vertical traffic lights if you actually, ya know, skim your state’s driver’s manual.

No, the car crash rotated 90 degrees. Look at the cars that are waiting at the intersection to the left of the motorcycle when he enters the intersection. At :18, those cars are still to the left of the green light when he’s running over to the grass. The impact from the crash caused all the cars to rotate so the…

My parents don’t understand why I always engage the parking brake (“you’re parking on a flat surface! You don’t need it!”), and really, I just use it because I don’t like to feel the car shift after I put it in park and take my foot off the brake. But there’s been a few times where my mom borrowed my car (usually to…