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...week, the Federal Government is expected to issue rules requiring automakers to standardize the recorders and make the information uniformly downloadable with commercial software. Thus, some manufacturers who have guarded black-box data as proprietary will have to make it accessible. In a nod to critics, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration would also mandate that the devices be disclosed to car buyers...
...primary function is to link the nation's major cities, apart from Canberra. But it has always attracted intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains...
...primary function is to link the nation's major cities, apart from Canberra. But it has always attracted intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains. For this year's Australian Journeys special issue, we decided to tootle along...
High fuel prices have yielded one bonus: with more and more people keeping their cars at home, the roads are relatively free of traffic snarl-ups. It's typical of Baghdad that when something seems to get better--whether traffic or the ride from the airport--it's usually because something else has got much worse...
...smooth, money is a great equalizer, says Mitchell Gold, a co-owner of Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams, a furniture manufacturer with revenues of more than $100 million a year. Both owners are gay, and although the factory is located in Taylorsville, N.C., a small, conservative city ("there are 14 traffic lights and 135 churches," jokes Gold), there has been little friction with employees. It's not a mystery to Gold: "We pay better than anyone [else] in the area, with better benefits." There have been small problems along the way, says Gold. "There have definitely been times that...