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I live in an area that actually has winters, pretty much every year. And there's snow in the forecast coming up in the next couple of days. Now understand that I'm coming off an experience yesterday of dealing with what had to be the world's stupidest appliance installation guy, (Dub may deal with that this weekend)  so my tolerance for stupidity is at zero at the moment, but I'm going to make this wish list anyway...

It's bad when bad things happen, but it's starting to bug me when people think that everything bad can be prevented or eliminated. We're never going to get rid of stupid. Case in point, apparently they're having a problem in Texas with people driving the wrong way on the North Dallas Tollway...

City Safety from Volvo, it sounds like a wonderful implementation of technology. If you approach a car in front of you going 2 mph to 9 mph, the car will put on the brakes and stop before hitting the vehicle. City Safety is only available in the XC60 models as of right now...

Dear Dub, We had our first snow of the year and it's so pretty. But I'm a new driver and I'm just about to get a car. Do you have any recommendations for a car that's best in the snow?..

Dear Dub, I did something really stupid the other day. I didn't pay attention to the fact that it was fall and the leaves were coming down. It had rained the night before and we went out for a drive to view the fall foiliage...

Yesterday must have been Tap Your Brakes Day. I wish I had known so I could have left earlier for my 90 mile run to basketball practice. (Yes, my daughter is hooked up with an AAU team that's based 90 miles away...

My 16 year old got her learner's permit two weeks ago, so I thought I'd report on her progress as we add another lover of manual transmissions to the traffic flow. Here in Pennsylvania, new drivers have to log 50 hours behind the wheel over 6 months on their permit before they can take the test to get their driver's license. It's a great idea as long as the parents are conscientious about filling in the log...

Well it's a big day in our house. Today is the 16th birthday of our daughter and that means time for the learner's permit. So right after 6AM basketball practice - that's right, 6 in the A of M - I'll be taking her to the driver's license center to take the permit test...

I'm beginning to think all this "self esteem" nonsense and telling kids that no matter what they do it's fantastic is coming home to roost. It's one thing to tell a two year old who scribbles all over the T-Rex picture that you love their picture. It's another thing once that kid should know better, like in high school...

There are days when I think that the test for getting your license needs to be tightened up a bit or maybe occassional retesting. Yesterday was one of them. The main road from my place to town is a rural, two lane road that's basically a straight road...