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FRONT-SEAT DRIVER For the past 14 months, Progressive, the country's fifth-largest auto insurer, has been testing an optional pay-as-you-go system in Texas, using black boxes to track drivers' activity, including when and where they are going, via satellite. Monthly invoices are based on actual usage--the less you drive, the less you pay--and so far, Houston drivers have saved an average of 25% on their premiums. Progressive plans to launch the program in other states in the near future. Privacy advocates are concerned that despite safeguards, the information could by used against...
DeSoto. Hudson. Duesenberg. Packard. And now you can add Plymouth to the long list of American car brands no longer gracing auto showrooms. DaimlerChrysler executives announced Wednesday that the company is discontinuing the brand after 72 years. Earlier this decade, when Plymouth's sales begun to slump, Chrysler reinvented the brand as an economy line of cars for young families, branding it with the slogan "One Clever Idea After Another." At the same time, Plymouth's mid-sized Breeze sedan and the Voyager minivan received enthusiastic reviews from automotive magazines. But last year, after Chrysler merged with German auto giant...
...truly grateful that TIME's art critic Robert Hughes survived his terrible auto accident [DISPATCH, Oct. 11]. But some of his comments disturbed me, as I'm sure they did other readers. After having his life saved, Hughes said, "Jesus must have been busy...he didn't show." That offends me. I am Hindu, and faith is deeply rooted in me. Though this was not a fairy-tale ending or a religious experience for Hughes, someone holds this life that we all cherish. You may call him Christ, Allah, Vishnu or Bob, for that matter, but Hughes shouldn't think...
...efforts are a hit with employees. In booming high-tech fields, where companies are looking for every edge in the competition for recruits, a glistening, state-of-the-art fitness center can clinch a contract. Few employees are worried their bosses will use health data against them, says United Auto Workers spokesman Reg McGhee. In fact, his union has even agreed to pay part of the cost of on-the-job health promotions...
Booze, however, is Webster's bogeyman. "The majority of kids go out and go drinking and then go home," says Raimondo. "It puts them at risk for auto accidents and bad choices." Every two years the school stages a brutally realistic drunk-driving accident for 11th- and 12th-graders. Right outside, two cars are smashed together, and five "bloodied" students are put inside. Two of them are said to be dead at the scene, and a third must be extricated by firemen wielding metal cutters while a helicopter stands by. The scene always has a chilling effect on students...