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Emily Blue, 25, was driving home from dinner with friends several weeks ago when she decided to call a friend on her Sprint PCS portable cell phone. She was still dialing as she went through an intersection and plowed into a parked Ford Explorer, totaling her own Acura Integra. While suffering only a burnt lip after the air bag exploded in her face, Blue admits to being plenty embarrassed. "I know better than to dial and drive," she insists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Hands, No Harm | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

Virtual Advisor--available by year's end in 32 of GM's 54 cars (as well as some Lexus, Acura and Saab models)--is an extension of GM's OnStar system, which when introduced in 1996 was touted mostly as a luxury option for drivers who could use it to get directions, make restaurant reservations and buy theater tickets over a speakerphone from the comfort of their Cadillacs. This year the selling point is safety first; the pampering will cost you extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Hands, No Harm | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...duty firefighter heard the screams and wrote down the license plate number of the car Wodja was driving, a blue two-door Honda Acura...

Author: By Rachel P. Kovner, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Summer School Student Reports Assault Attempt | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...Queens resident took a Breathalyzer test that showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19, almost twice the legal limit of 0.10. Then there was the matter of his eight previous arrests for drunk driving. The grumbling began later, when the N.Y.P.D. took possession of a 1988 Acura that belonged to librarian Pavel Grinberg. The Polish immigrant, 28, who had been swerving when police pulled him over, was legally drunk at a more modest 0.11 blood-alcohol level. But he had never before been arrested for drunk driving, and he was still relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotham on the Wagon | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...drives a 1989 Acura, takes her lunch towork, uses coupons at the supermarket andcomposts...

Author: By Rosalind S. Helderman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Schor Explores Gender, Work, Consumption | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

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