But AAA's annual Your Driving Costs study, published in early April, figures that the average cost of driving a new passenger car is 56.2 cents, up 4.5 cents over the 2003 calculation of 51.7 cents.
One factor driving this migration, the Demographia study reveals, is differing levels of regulation of land use between regions.
"Call handlers can help people find the right course, whether it is a one-week intensive driving course or a year-long study of floristry, " she added.
The senators cited a Virginia Tech Transportation Institute study that found that truck drivers who texted while driving were 23 times more likely to crash or get into a near-accident than undistracted drivers.
Nationwide, the INRIX study found that commuters on the road during peak driving times in the 100 largest cities took seven percent longer to reach their destinations than if traffic was moving freely.
Two camera systems take color photos and high-definition video to study the Martian landscape, track weather conditions and aid in driving operations.
In fact, according to a study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, these Boomers are actually driving a new entrepreneurship boom.
Over the years these have included polo, competitive horse carriage driving (a sport in which he has represented Britain) science, the study of UFOs, practical jokes, painting and taking the wheel of his own London taxi.
The Rand study suggested, though, that government might intervene and mandate self-driving cars if they prove to be half as safe as Google claims.
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The overwhelming majority of teen girls who responded to the study said that changing music on car stereos and playing loud music while driving distracted them.
In a recent study by the developmental psychologist Laurence Steinberg at Temple University, teenagers did a simulated high-risk driving task while they were lying in an fMRI brain-imaging machine.
And parents who talk on cell phones, send texts or eat and drink while driving have teenagers who are more likely to do the same, according to preliminary findings of a new safety study by Toyota Motor and the University of Michigan.
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