As the school year ends, parents often think about getting a car for their teenage son or daughter. However, the combination of immaturity and inexperience makes driving especially risky for teenagers. If they’re going to drive, choosing a safe vehicle is key. In addition to safety, ...

While most new passenger cars and SUVs come equipped with Automatic Emergency Braking (AEB) and at least offer lane departure prevention and blind spot detection as options, such features are comparatively rare on light vans. Intelligent Speed Assist, which makes it difficult or impossible for ...

This week’s column is complimentary to local drivers for what I perceive to be a significant improvement in using full headlights during rainy days. Having written nearly 900 columns on vehicle and traffic laws and traffic safety over a period of more than 17 years, I cannot drive anywhere ...

Road construction work is now under way for the next several months. With road work comes reduced speeds through work areas and often includes flaggers to control one-way traffic. All this leads to delays for drivers. Unfortunately, too many drivers still refuse to obey reduced speeds and flag ...

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) is updating its vehicle-to-vehicle front crash-prevention test to address crashes that occur at higher speeds and those in which the struck vehicle is a motorcycle or large truck. Only one of the first 10 small SUVs evaluated earns a good ...

Last summer I wrote a column about drivers who were using fake license plates or were purposefully obstructing their license plates to avoid paying tolls. Much of the focus around license plate fraud and “ghost vehicles” has been concentrated in the New York City area, which boasts a higher ...