According to a new study from The U.S. Department of Transportation and Consumer Reports, 63% of people under the age of 30 admitted to talking on their cell phones while driving in the past 30 days. Another 30% of them admitted to texting while driving, and just 30% of drivers under 30 thought that was a problem. It's not like their rear view window was blocked by a bunch of cats or anything. more ›

The skies above Newark Liberty International Airport are a disaster waiting to happen, according to federal investigators who are concerned about the simultaneous use of intersecting runways. Problems arise when a plane needs to abort its landing — which occurs about once every 700 flights at Newark. Current protocol forces the diverted plane to make a sharp right turn directly across the flight path of planes taking off and landing, "allowing little margin for error," according to CNN. more ›

Car dealers in NY and around the country are frustrated with the federal government's "cash for clunkers" program and are opting out—because they haven't received reimbursements yet! According to the Post, "about half" of the Greater New York Automobile Association's 425 members "say they've dropped out because they've gotten only 2 percent of the millions of dollars owed them by Washington," leading the association's president Mark Schienberg to complain, "It's an administrative nightmare...Cash flow is extremely important," and point out that when dealers try to fill out the 13-pages of paperwork, "Their [computer system] crashes all the time and you can't talk to anyone. It's extremely frustrating." The feds say they have processed 37% of applications, but Bloomberg News reports the Department of Transportation "didn’t say how many of the processed transactions have been paid out and how many were rejected or sent back to dealers for further information." more ›

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After talk of flight caps to help ease airport congestion that leave many travelers very irritable, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced another policy to help ease airport woes. The DOT will let airports charge airlines based on the time of day and volume of traffic their planes are landing in. Previously, aircraft was only charged based on plane weight. more ›