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Pennsylvania bus driver John Porter was shocked, shaken but not stirred when a furry white-tailed deer suddenly came crashing through the front windshield of his bus. According to reports, the wild animal was spotted running across the busy road and tried to jump out of the way before it went crashing straight through the front glass of the moving bus.

The unbelievable incident was all caught on surveillance camera video, as the freaked out deer and surprised bus driver scrambled in a panic until the animal finally ran out the front door. "I saw something come through the window and a deer was there... It was kicking around pretty good," Porter told WPXI.com.

Luckily, no one was harmed (including the resilient deer) as the bus driver walked away with just a few cuts on his hands from the broken glass. The only passenger aboard at the time was a shocked woman in the back who sat completely still the whole time (and we can't blame her). This incident also reminds us of the bus driver in China who miraculously survived a deadly pole crashing through his windshield.

Click here to watch the insane video footage of this party crashing deer in action.

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Red light cameras don't appear to be going away, so it should come as no surprise that neither are the controversies around them. We're told again and again that they're about safety, not revenue collection, yet year after year, the studies and headlines compete to support and tear down those arguments. An investigative report by WTSP Channel 10 News gets the maelstrom whirling again, having found that various municipalities in Florida have recently shortened yellow light times to below those recommended by the US Department of Transportation.

Until 2011, Florida regulations "mandated yellow light calculations factor in either the posted speed limit or 85th percentile of drivers' actual speed - whichever was greater." That year, though, the phrase "whichever was greater" was cut, and certain cities began resetting the yellow lights to illuminate for the shorter interval - either trying to ensure more safety or more revenue. The Florida Department of Transportation says the new language was only meant to establish a minimum time for yellow lights, not to dictate their exact duration.

And with so much money in play - the Channel 10 news report says Florida collect about US$100 million in red light camera fines last year and could get to US$130 million this year - it's no wonder cities shorten yellow light times below the minimum guidelines, manipulate accident data, robo-sign tickets with the names of dead police officers, and redesign their license plates to make them easier for the cameras to read.

Watch the news segment in the video below and if you're in Florida, you'll need to pay even more attention to the lights in front and the traffic behind.

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The driver of a small Nissan pickup truck has some explaining to do after getting stuck... in a tree. Most versatile off-road trucks are found stuck in deep mud or snow, but this utilitarian beast was found stuck in an evergreen grove.

Police responded to reports of the tree-climbing truck and found it still in place, clinging to the branches about 3 metres (10 feet) above the ground. The driver was no where to be found, and the vehicle's engine and exhaust system was cold, telling police that the vehicle had been there for some time, undiscovered.

Recreating the scene, it appears the driver of the small truck was traveling at a high rate of speed, lost control and 'jumped' a large ditch, which put him on a trajectory that landed him, well... up a tree. The driver later returned to the scene during the police investigation ("Where'd I leave my wallet?") and was charged with 'hit and run' and criminal mischief citations. This unlikely tale unfolded in Portland, Oregon, USA.

Speaking of the police, an officer found himself in a similar predicament when he pulled a U-turn to make a seatbelt related traffic stop, lost control, and hit the guide-wire of a telephone pole. The front bumper of his cruiser followed the wire up the pole, leaving the Dodge police car scampering up the pole like a spooked squirrel. Thankfully, this Memphis police officer was wearing his seatbelt and was not injured in the incident - no word if the seatbelt-less driver of the car he was attempting to pull over noticed all the commotion behind him.

Scroll down to watch a video report showing both cat car-up-a tree scenarios.

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Faced with truck drivers not heeding warnings when their tractor trailers were too tall to enter the Sydney Harbour Tunnel, officials turned to a company called Laservision to put an end to these costly crashes that were not only closing the tunnel for weeks at a time, but also put other drivers on the road in considerable danger.

Developed and implemented back in 2011, Laservision's Softstop system projects a familiar bright red stop sign, seemingly in mid-air, at the tunnel's entrance if a vehicle too large to enter is detected. In fact, the stop sign does not float in mid-air, but rather is projected onto a water screen that, should a vehicle not heed its command, would cause no damage from being driven through.

The Softstop water stop sign is a last resort, mind you. If a driver's truck is tall enough that it would crash into the tunnel were it to enter, a number of brightly flashing warning signs are activated that signal the driver to stop earlier. Only if those flashing signs are ignored is the Softstop system activated at the tunnel's entrance. Likewise, the Softstop system can be activated for other reasons, including keeping drivers out for their own protection if there's a fire or other disaster inside the tunnel.

Though we admit to chuckling at the occasional truck-crashes-into-low-overpass video (11foot8.com is a whole website devoted to vehicles crashing into a low railroad trestle in Durham, NC), this clever solution for preventing such accidents is even more interesting to watch in action.

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Clever water stop sign prevents tunnel crashes in Australia originally appeared on Autoblog Canada on Wed, 15 May 2013 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A lucky Vancouver man survived being hit on his scooter by an oncoming TransLink bus in BC. Mark Jarder, a 23-year-old photographer was waiting to make a left turn on a busy street, when he was suddenly struck by the city bus which he claims "tried to beat the light."

The surprising crash video (which Jarder posted online) was recorded by his helmet-mounted GoPro camera, as the accident forced his red scooter to swerve into a traffic median and then tossed him to the ground. Reports have since been filed with the Vancouver Police Department, Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and TransLink.

"The bus hit the scooter, not me directly. That's why I'm alive... What I didn't expect was the bus to actually speed up and change lanes. It tried to beat the light," Jarder told The Huffington Post. As a result of the crash, Jarder sustained several minor injuries including road rash and a few bruises, narrowly avoiding any broken bones. The same can't be said for his poor scooter, which took most of the impact and had its footrest literally split in half by the bus.

Click here to watch the Vancouver bus crash into the small scooter and judge for yourself.

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A 91 year old WWII veteran has called upon his decades old survival training and survived a 4-day stint lying injured in his car. Jay Ambrozia of New Port Richey, Florida was shopping at a local supermarket when he had a fall. Ambrozia broke his hip and arm in the fall, but being the trooper he is, he shrugged off the pain and limped to his car with the help of store employees. Once in his car he was able to drive home, stopping once at the side of the road when his leg went numb. He ought to have driven straight to the hospital (or perhaps been driven to the hospital by friendly local paramedics) but his unrelenting spirit of independence led him astray.

After parking his Chevy inside his garage he was overcome by pain and unable to move from the car. In an effort to beckon assistance he laid on his horn until the battery went dead and yelled at the mailman everyday, but no one came to his aid. In order to be discovered but also keep warm he kept his automated garage door open during the day, and closed it at night. Fortunately, Ambrozia had a car full of groceries from the market, so he was able to survive on the food he had just bought.

This elderly soldier kept his wits about him and counted the days by adding cookies on his dash. Four cookies later and he was finally discovered laying in his car, in severe pain (and with internal hemorrhage secondary to his broken hip). Family members commented that he's "very coherent and spunkey, he's still spunkey." Perhaps it's time family members help him to pick out a cell phone, or life alert device.

Scroll down to watch a video showing the tale of survival. This scenario had a recent K9 equivalent wherein a Terrier survived one month in an abandoned car; click through to read the story and watch the video report.

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GoPro Hero3 Dash Cam

If you've noticed a disturbing lack of dash cam in your life, our friends at sister site Translogic have just the thing for you. They've worked up a quick play-by-play for how to turn your GoPro Hero3 into a go-anywhere camera to record everything that goes on in front of your vehicle.

The steps are as simple as drilling small hole in the camera's water proof case to allow access to the USB charging port. From there, you can supply constant power through a 12-volt USB adapter. Mount the camera to your windshield using the suction mount and you're very nearly ready to go.

Next, set up the loop recording feature and you're good to go. The Hero3 can loop record in 5, 20, 60 or 120 minute files wherein it will record to the maximum time before starting a new save file. Once the memory card is full, it will record over the oldest file. It can also loop record in "maximum" mode, where the camera fills the memory card, then starts over again. Check out the video Translogic made below for a look at the finished results.

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Flying cars aren't on their way, flying cars are here. If we're going to see more of them in the air above us, we're also going to see more images like the one above, in which a Maverick flying car has crash landed in a tree. The reverse-prop-driven buggy with the removable parasail was certified airworthy by the FAA in June of 2010. In this incident the pilot, Ray Siebring, said he was coming in for a landing at the airport in Vernon, British Columbia when his flying car suddenly made a sharp left turn into three descending spirals.

By the time Siebring stopped the spiraling he was so low that all he could do was mitigate the crash. Noticing an empty school field below, he managed to power up and get the vehicle down just beyond the school ground, through some fencing and into a tree. Neither Siebring nor his passenger was seriously injured.

If you want to see how the Maverick usually works, check out the video below of it making a coffee run.

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The escalating complexity of automobiles is led in part by the escalating complexity of safety systems. The once dumb airbag that lived all alone inside the steering wheel, for instance, is now a family of smart airbags that might be able to detect the location of the passenger they're meant to protect and how best to inflate in order to protect him. Beyond the increased sticker price, the cost of that technology is more things going wrong.

According to a story on AOL Autos there have been 22 recalls in the last six months due to airbags - covering more than 3.8 million cars up to 12 years old - compared to ten in the six months before. 15 of those have come this year, and at the current pace 2013 is on course to surpass the total of 23 airbag-related recalls of 2012. Malfunctions that led to the recalls have included airbags not deploying when expected, or deploying unexpectedly, or causing additional injuries and damage to occupants when they do deploy.

It can take suppliers, automakers and governing bodies such as the US-based National Highway Traffic Safety Administration years to address the issue and initiate a recall, even after hundreds of complaints have been filed. On top of that, the increasing concentration of the supplier base and the move to global platforms means that what might once have been a localized issue is now a global one. Some look at the number of airbag recalls as a problem with the technology, feeling "it's not working very well." Others see it as the improved operation of the corrective system - more issues are being recalled because automakers are taking safety concerns more seriously. The "right" answer, if there is one, is no doubt as complex as the technology, so click over to AOL Autos for the full story and decide for yourself. Click through to watch a video debating whether airbags are our enemy.

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Airbag recalls on track for record year originally appeared on Autoblog Canada on Sun, 12 May 2013 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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A Terrier puppy has developed a penchant for McDonalds fries and cuban cigars after surviving in a locked car for one month. The owner of the puppy had abandoned the furry critter in their car, which they also abandoned. The car was later towed by Kansas city parking enforcement, and the car was impounded at a city operated impound lot. The diminutive pup wasn't noticed during the tow, or impound process, and was only discovered one month later by an astute city employee who picked out the two button-eyes peeking out from a car window.

Given the long duration of automotive captivity, it is surprising that the Terrier survived. According to reports, the local Kansas weather was unseasonably cool and this no doubt contributed to the dog's survival. Impound workers reported that the dog survived on left over McDonalds and a cigar which had been left in the car.

Those who rescued the Terrier pup named her Kia - but not for the reason you may think. No, Kia was not found in a Kia, but in a Buick. So, why not pick a name from the realm of GM nomenclature? The rescuers, "couldn't find a Buick car name that sounded like a girl." We might add that it's also difficult to find a youthful Buick name. Regardless, Kia, the long-suffering K9 is responding to her name just fine.

Kansas Animal Control officers are now searching for the owner of the puppy (and car) and possible animal cruelty and neglect citations are possible.

Scroll down to watch the full video report.

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Impounded car had furry surprise locked inside for a month [w/video] originally appeared on Autoblog Canada on Thu, 09 May 2013 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Just imagine for a moment that you're driving across a long stretch of secluded desert highway, and suddenly you see a hand waving at you from inside the vehicle in the rearview mirror. While this might seem like the stuff of scary urban legends, it is exactly what happened to a man last week as he was driving his Nissan pickup through California's High Desert.

According to the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, a motorcycle rider rear-ended the man's pickup at a high rate of speed, throwing the rider into the bed of the truck. Since it was a rough stretch of road that was under construction, the driver mistook the impact for road debris. Witnesses claim the motorcycle rider was traveling "in excess of 209 km/h (130 mph)," and while the rider sustained "minor to moderate" injuries, we imagine that things would likely have been much worse if he hadn't landed in the back of the truck...

Click through to watch a video showing how a motorcyclist survived a high-speed crash.

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Terrafugia TF-X rendering

It's hard to forget a company like Terrafugia - mostly because it won't let us. Every six months or so, the Massachusetts-based self-proclaimed aerospace company makes headlines with a flying car concept. It's first attempt, called the Transition, was a folding low-wing propeller-driven pusher aircraft with a water-cooled combustion engine. Despite its ungainliness, it has flown, but only in prototype form, and despite its long gestation period and a reported 100 reservations on the books, certification and production is moving at a snail's pace.

Yet push those negative thoughts aside and make room in your fantasy warehouse for Terrafugia's followup act, a vertical-takeoff (VTOL) plug-in hybrid-electric flying car. Promised to be much more advanced than its predecessor, the all-new TF-X would be fitted with modern state-of-the-art intelligent systems and fly-by-wire controls, says the company. Its design, with vertical take-off transitioning into horizontal flight, would provide safe, simple and convenient autonomous flight that would help alleviate today's congestion and other transportation challenges.

Rather than dwell on the implications of electric range-anxiety while cruising at 6,100 metres (20,000 feet) with your family on board, or how you will prevent your inattentive friends from walking into its low-slung whirling rotors, open your mind and watch the company's computer-generated video down below showing how a typical flight would theoretically unfold.

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Elton Kim probably never imagined that holding an errant driver to account after a minor parking lot skirmish would result in a high-speed hood-hugging, death-defying vigilante stunt. However, as if cut from a James Bond film, the following video shows exactly this scenario unfolding.

The story begins in Georgia, USA, when a woman backed her Ford Fusion into the Kim family's Chevrolet Avalanche. Mr Kim confronted the careless driver before she could leave the scene and demanded the woman stop her car to discuss the damages. The unknown woman, however, had other plans, and drove right at Kim - at which point he jumped onto the hood of her car to avoid being run over. The neurotic driver then sped for the highway where the following footage was captured by a concerned motorist.

Theresa Kim, wife of Mr Kim, stated that she "didn't think [the driver] wanted to hurt him, but for some reason she never stopped." We believe Mrs Kim could take a more supportive stance for her husband's sake - he was, after all, trying to look after her Chevy.

Click through to watch the video report.

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The camera has no favourites, takes no sides - it captures whatever's in front of it, good or ill. We're used to seeing the ill side of Russian streets through the lenses of ubiquitous dash cams, but there's plenty of good to go with it if a video from YouTube user ArkadiYM93 is any indication.

You've probably never seen so many old ladies and cats and peacocks helped across the street, as you do in this five-minute clip. You probably also haven't seen a man lift a car to get it unstuck. You can start the feel-good part of your day by watching the video below.

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In its continuing battle against distracted driving, the US-based National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has issued voluntary guidelines covering the use of in-car infotainment and communication devices in the United States. It is NHTSA's intention that the proposals, which have been in the works for a year and are partly based on a 2010 study called "Impact of Hand-Held and Hands-Free Cell Phone Use on Driving Performance and Safety Critical Event Risk," will be phased in over the next three years. That would give automakers time to reconfigure their systems to comply.

Proposed items include disabling manual text entry, video-based entertainment and video phone calls and prohibiting the display of text messages, social media or web pages while the car is in motion or in gear. The objective is to keep the driver's eyes off the road for no more than two seconds at a time, and 12 seconds in total. That 12-second limit would be achieved by only allowing a driver six inputs or touches of the screen within a dozen seconds, but it would include activities beyond phone calls and nav inputs, like changing the radio station or using the climate control. At the moment, the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has a self-imposed limit of 20 seconds, although we're not sure how that's enforced by the infotainment system.
Calling distracted driving "a deadly epidemic," NHTSA says that it is trying to "balance the innovation consumers want with the safety we all need." The study showed that activities like using hand-held phones potentially tripled the risk of a crash and texting doubled the risk of a crash or near-crash. Distracted drivers accounted for about a third of all accident fatalities in 2011, a rise over 2010, but injuries are down, as are the number of crashes related to phone use.

According to a report in Automotive News, when the proposals are fully implemented, NHTSA is also considering adding them the the New Car Assessment Program, which would encourage automakers to comply if they want a five-star safety rating. No word yet on how this could likely affect Canadian-bound new cars too.

Hit the jump for more on the dangers of distracted driving.

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Batman Car Seat

If you're looking for a different way to ferry your children about in the car safely, KidsEmbrace may have you covered. The company makes specialty car seats fashioned after DC Comics superhero Batman and NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Junior.

Why? Because what kid wouldn't want to look this cool in the car? The Batman seat features a cape and arm rests styled after the Dark Knight's own arms, complete with hands for cup holders. The Earnhardt Jr. example looks less like the racer himself and more like a generic helmet-clad hot shoe.

You can head over to the KidsEmbrace site for a closer look. The seats can be had for around US$149 or so. Don't be surprised if your kid stops saying, "are we there yet?" and is a little more excited about trips to the grocery store.

Scroll down to read how a car seat likely saved an infant's life in a severe crash.

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Engadget gives Google Glass a try on a Ducati 848 Streetfighter

Our friends at sister site Engadget recently got a chance to give an early version of Google Glass a try. Tim Stevens went so far as to hop on the back of a Ducati 848 Streetfighter with Glass tucked under his helmet in an attempt to host a Google+ hangout while on a ride. Unfortunately, the system doesn't easily fit under a helmet thanks in part to the fact that it requires a sizable battery pack behind the user's ear. That kind of nips any fun on track recording options in the bud, either on a bike or in a car.

Still, with some finagling, Stevens was able to wedge the system in place well enough to take decent video, but cell reception woes soon put his online broadcasting hopes to an end. The good news is that Glass doesn't require a connection to continue recording, which is nice. You can watch video from the ride below for yourself.

While Google still has some work to do to make Glass appealing to the motorsports set, Stevens also uncovered a few other issues. Namely, the device isn't as intuitive as he'd hoped, and those with vision impairments had a hard time getting the system to function at all.

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Steven Simonar may have passed you on the highway, and you'd never have known that the driver of the pickup truck in the neighbouring lane had no arms. Simonar has been honing his driving skills sans upper limbs for the last 28 years - and he's never encountered any issues, save for the fact that he can't buckle up unassisted.

Over the course of nearly three decades this enterprising man has adapted five vehicles with a special wheel and stirrup that allow him to steer with his left foot while using the brake and accelerator pedals as normal. Simonar has managed to steer clear of accidents and traffic tickets... until now.

Last week, during a routine police spot check held by the RCMP and local Saskatoon Police Services, the officer who pulled him over noticed that he was not wearing his seatbelt. A ticket was written for $175 and Simonar states that this is the first time he's ever received such a ticket, "It never dawned on me I'd get a ticket, because I've been stopped numerous times and I've never had an issue," he said. "You just have to look once to figure it out."

Simonar is now fighting the ticket, but it's not the $175 penalty that has him most upset. During the course of the spot check he claims that one of the officers said, "Well if he can't put his seatbelt on maybe he shouldn't be driving." While road safety must take precedence, the alleged statement does sound insensitive to Simonar's plight. In the end, the courts will decide, but we must acknowledge Simonar for his determination and grit to keep driving despite his significant handicap.

Scroll down to watch how good Samaritans saved the victim of an accident from his fiery wreck.

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Motorcycle Bicycle Crash on Mulholland - screen cap

Now for a lesson in target fixation. As we're sure most of you know, your vehicle tends to go where your eyes go, and that's doubly true for motorcycles. Lock eyes with something you don't want to hit and invariably, that's precisely what you'll do. One rider in California recently found that out the hard way when he was confronted with a pair of bicyclists pedaling up Mulholland Highway. The rider exited a corner with plenty of angle left in his bike at a completely reasonable and legal speed, but panic apparently took over when he finally spotted the cyclists (was he distracted by the cameraman who caught the accident?). Rather than continue to lean, and thus turn, the rider grabbed a foot full of brake, stood his motorcycle upright and rammed both bicycles from behind.

All we can say is, it was a miracle no one was seriously injured in the crash. Everyone appears to have walked away with a few scrapes and bruises. You can watch the video below to see the whole disaster take shape, just be warned that the clip isn't for the weak of stomach. There's no serious gore, but watching the cyclists play Gumby is a terrifying sight all the same, and there's some explicit not-safe-for-work language, too.

As riders of both bicycles and motorcycles, we sympathize with both parties. Yes, the motorcycle rider is clearly at fault here, and yes, the bicycles have a right to be on the road as well. They were even well to the shoulder as they should have been, but part of riding a bicycle is choosing where to do so safely. Sure, Mulholland is a mecca for both bicyclists and motorcycle riders, but the winding canyon road is far from a safe stretch of asphalt for slow-moving vehicles of any ilk.

Click here to watch.

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It pains us to show you this footage as there've been plenty of exotic cars bent up in recent months - but we bring you this video to serve as a sobering reminder to those of us who carve up racetracks that our craft is, indeed, dangerous.

Shigeru Terajima, a professional racer, crashed his Ferrari 458 Challenge on the Suzuka Circuit during the second race of the Ferrari Challenge series he was participating in. It's unclear what caused the crash, but it looks as though Terajima may have been attempting to pass another car down the high-speed straight when he lost control, either due to contact made with the other car, or perhaps due to squirrely weight transfer.

It's been reported that Terajima was sent to hospital with serious injuries; thankfully, he did survive the crash. A track worker was also injured in the crash and was sent to the same hospital as the driver, but thankfully his injuries were minor.

Scroll down to watch the wild crash unfold.

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