Car accidents are highly stressful on those involved, and it doesn’t help alleviate the stress when your car starts to malfunction. Unfortunately, one common issue that can happen with cars after they’ve been involved in an accident is that their seat belts will lock and jam, preventing you from legally…
Why Don’t School Buses Have Seat Belts? Everything You Need to Know Did you know that more than half of the nation’s almost 50 million K-12 students use a school bus to get to and from school each day? This greatly contrasts the pattern a few decades ago when active…
Why are Seat Belts Important? Seat belts are part of the standard safety equipment installed in any modern vehicle, but why should we wear seat belts? Other than the fact it’s the law in every part of the U.S., the importance of seat belts cannot be underestimated. Below, we will…
How Fast Do Airbags Deploy? Everything You Need to Know Airbags are a standard safety feature on modern vehicles. Despite being unseen until an accident occurs, they are just as crucial in preventing serious injury and death as seatbelts. But how do airbags protect you from harm? When do airbags…
Night Driving: 7 Tips for Road Safety After Dark If you’ve noticed that you’re more tense when driving at night, you’re not alone. While the road can be dangerous at any time, studies show that driving is more dangerous after the sun goes down. In fact, fatal accidents are 3x…
6 Safety Tips: How to Drive in the Rain We’ve all been there, the sun is shining and the day is beautiful — right up until the moment you get in your car to leave and it starts pouring. Wet roads and heavy rain result in some of the most…
7 Dangerous Driving Habits to Avoid Nobody’s perfect, but if there’s one place we should strive to be as close to it as possible, it’s on the road. However, for most of us, we drive so often that it’s become second-nature — we don’t put much thought into our driving…
After a long day at work, you’re driving down the road, listening to your favorite music. When your car’s music player stops working, you glance down to remedy the problem, and BOOM!!!…you rear-end the car in front of you. Vehicles suffer from a range of common undesirable side effects following…
Learning to drive is a massive responsibility, one that affects you and other people on the road. You likely know the basics about driving now, but that isn’t enough to get you through your driving sessions. New drivers may not know this, but it’s also essential to learn about the…
An on-board diagnostics (OBD) reader, also called a diagnostic scanner or a scan tool, is a device used to read the memory and data error recorded on your vehicle’s systems. It allows you to create a connection between your car and a mobile app or diagnostic software. Once the connection…
