Don't say we didn't warn you...This morning's commute will be the first in Washington state where that jackass swerving in front of you while texting on their Blackberry is actually breaking the law, rather than merely endangering their life and yours. While hands-on cell phone offenders have to get pulled over for something else ticket-worthy in order to get slapped with the new fine, we are glad to see common sense become actionable law.......

You've got one week, Seattle, until the bumper sticker motto of "Hang Up & Drive" becomes state law. Starting next Tuesday, July 1st, it will be illegal to operate a moving vehicle while talking on a hand-held cell phone. Drivers will be able to continue their conversations and multi-tasking, as long as they have a hands-free device. If you are caught talking (or, God forbid, texting) and driving after the 1st, you will face at......

Welcome to our world, rest of the country... Surprising no driver, the AP reported yesterday that the average cost of a gallon of gas in the U.S. has surpassed four dollars. This is the first time the average cost of a gallon of gas has topped four dollars in the States. And we're sorry to inform the rest of you, it does not just plateau at four dollars. Oh no, we paid $4.27 a......

Mother Nature is not Q. When your car has been coated with a couple of inches of snow, brush it off before you drive down the freeway. If you don't brush it off, it gradually blows off as you speed down I-5, making you look like James Bond in a rinky-dink car with an incompetent smokescreen. In other words, like Roger Moore circa View to a Kill. Yes, that bad. It also annoys the......