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"...per gallon between fill-ups at 500-mile intervals of in-city driving. This hybrid electric car seats five people and is..."

July 19, 2002 Column

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"...per gallon between fill-ups at 500-mile intervals of in-city driving. This hybrid electric car seats five people and is..."

July 12, 2002 Column

The Luv Doc: A Pretty Low Bar
Give me a ghost-driven Jaguar any day
"...environment. He also has a lot of anxiety around driving and thinks he would end up having a horrible..."

Feb. 21, 2025 Column by The Luv Doc

The Common Law
Can I get a hardship driver’s license for football practice?
"...for a hardship driver's license so I can start driving myself. Is the hardship license likely to get approved?..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Column by Luke Ellis

How DPS's Occupation of a Border Town May Have Crippled Its Economy
Rio Grande City sees a marked decline in sales and tourism
"...and his neighbors complained that when they were out driving, they got hassled to no end by troopers...."

Oct. 6, 2017 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Where the Sidewalks End
Austin's patchwork sidewalk system has a history – and just maybe a better future
"...of fatalities." The city passed laws like the distracted driving ordinance to change how people act on roads, but..."

July 11, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Getting off the Road
Rail will help, roads will help – but so will your decision not to drive today
"...decision to take the bus on Tuesdays instead of driving. Austin doesn't have a central command center for TDM..."

June 27, 2014 News Feature by Robyn Ross

What Happens Next?
As D.A. Rosemary Lehmberg serves her sentence, the county attorney takes on the civil lawsuit and the next steps
"...Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg on a drunken driving charge – and, more broadly, her behavior during and..."

May 3, 2013 News Feature by Jordan Smith

Nacho Daddy
What do Michael Jackson and Manu Chao have in common? Joe King Carrasco.
"...different energy. Like old Austin, when Doug [Sahm] played!" Driving Through the Drug Wars..."

Jan. 25, 2013 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

You Drink, You Drive, You Spill!
Bob Ray's PSAs for Drunk Drivers of Texas
"...public meetings where guest speakers discuss alternatives to drunk driving. They help provide info on alternative forms of transportation..."

July 30, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Climate, Meet Mobility
Copenhagen is all about green transport – and Austin should be, too
"...many of the most obvious things – like not driving Suburbans.) Even in greenhouse-gas-hip Denmark, a climate-action plan for..."

Nov. 6, 2009 News Feature by Katherine Gregor

Naked City
"...them losing their license. Asked about the top worst driving habits, 93% knew that drunken driving was a danger,..."

Nov. 16, 2007 News Feature

Red Line Fever: Cured?
Texas teens are trying to be safe drivers, but there's still gaps in their road safety education
"...to find out if they were aware of dangerous driving habits, and how often they were likely to indulge..."

Oct. 30, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Time for Regular Publication of Collision Data
"...It's appalling that a motorist can incapacitate someone while driving blind drunk, and not even lose his driver's license...."

Nov. 16, 2006 Postmarks

Riding at Risk
Austin's streets still a hazard for two-wheeled transportation
"...had been "thrown" at his car as he was driving home. The caller, 38-year-old Rudy Saenz, hadn't unsuspectingly wandered..."

Nov. 10, 2006 News Feature by Daniel Mottola

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"...I therefore propose that we force every fat assed, SUV-driving, nonsmoking yuppie to run five miles a day around..."

June 23, 2006 Column

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"...Mark CoffeyMore on Drunken DrivingDear Editor,..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Column

Naked City
A continuing look at Drug War lunacy
"...in the otherwise nonsensical rush to pass zero-tolerance "drugged driving" laws, opining that the presence of a marijuana metabolite..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Feature by Jordan Smith

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"...are smoking and nonsmoking sections in restaurants, we have car-driving and no-driving sections in cities. If we tried this,..."

June 27, 2003 Column

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"...["Page Two," Feb. 14] will also try to ban driving cars. Driving your car just as often and carelessly..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Column

Confessions of a Cowboy
Working a cattle drive in Texas in the 1870s probably wasn't like what you imagine; ask Frank Harris -- he was there and he knows.
"...eight American cowboys crossed the Rio Grande into Texas, driving ahead of them a herd of 1,500 longhorn cattle..."

May 26, 2000 Books Feature by James C. Simmons

Don't Pop That Top
Road Money Tied to Bill
"...not pass an open container and two other drunk driving laws, by shifting a percentage of federal highway construction..."

May 14, 1999 News Feature by Janet Heimlich

Six Days on the Road
Rig Rock Deluxe Trucks Down Country Byways
"...Jeremy Tepper of Brooklyn, New York's Diesel Only Records, truck-driving songs are an important sub-genre of country music. He..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Joe Ely Cruises, Coasts, and Floors It on Driven to Drive
Austin’s roving soul Flatlander archives road-hog song collection
"...I’m a driving man, I’m a driving man I’m travelin’ light, roaring through..."

Aug. 9, 2024 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World
Romanian film is a sardonic critique of the contemporary working environment
"...as a woman in the male-dominated space of taxi driving, whereas the only freedom modern Angela has is in..."

April 5, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Luv Doc: A Better Passenger
Trusting someone with your life can be really scary
"...Driving with my girlfriend scares the f**k out of me!..."

June 23, 2023 Column by The Luv Doc

State Police Partnering With APD Mostly Arresting People of Color
License, registration, and ZIP Code, please
"...low-level, nonviolent offenses like shoplifting, possession of marijuana, or driving while license invalid, was even more striking: one issued..."

May 5, 2023 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Austin Scientists Focus on Helping AI Do Good
Weighing the pros, cons, and concerns of humanity's future overlords
"...for "vision and planning" in its choppy quest for self-driving cars, according to its website. (The company recently recalled..."

March 10, 2023 News Feature by Benton Graham

Southeast of Austin, an Unarmed Immigrant's Killing Galvanizes a Quest for Justice
Why did Adil Dghoughi die?
"...months, looking for work as a financial analyst but driving for Uber and DoorDash. "I would go with him..."

Dec. 10, 2021 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Half Brothers
Screwball road trip comedy should have stayed in the garage
"...died from.) The structure is thus: Brothers bicker while driving, brothers have tender moment, brothers have monkey wrench thrown..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

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