{"id":4483,"date":"2011-05-24T11:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4483"},"modified":"2011-05-24T11:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T18:25:00","slug":"driven-to-distraction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4483","title":{"rendered":"Driven to Distraction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on the transportation theme from yesterday, today&#8217;s theme from the lunch-time news reading appears to be related to automobiles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>A List for Click and Clack<\/b>. Sent to me by a co-worker: <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/money_co\/2011\/05\/top-five-car-breakdowns-.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MoneyCompany+%28Money+%26+Company%29\">The top five reasons cars break down<\/a>. This is of particular interest because we keep getting an occasional check engine light on my wife&#8217;s car, which the shop indicates is the Catalytic Converter starting to fail. Perhaps we should have them check the spark plugs or the O<sub><font size=\"-2\">2<\/font><\/sub> sensor.\n<li><b>Yellow Dots<\/b>. USA Today has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2011-05-23-yellow-dot-seniors-drivers-baby-boomers_n.htm\">an interesting article on a program slowly spreading across the country called Yellow Dot<\/a>. You put a yellow dot on your window, and have a yellow dot folder with emergency medical information in your glove compartment to help emergency responders. Interesting idea. Related to this is a NY Times article that answers the question: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/24\/health\/24doctors.html?pagewanted=1&#038;hpw\">Who are those doctors that answer the &#8220;is there a doctor onboard?&#8221; calls on an airplane<\/a>?\n<li><b>Teen Drivers<\/b>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-perfin-20110522,0,1708268.column\">An interesting article from the Sunday LA Times on auto insurance rates for teen drivers<\/a>. This is something I&#8217;ll be facing shortly, as my daughter is being formally added to our policy when we renew in June. Will AAA be the best bet? Perhaps I should shop around for her policy.<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on the transportation theme from yesterday, today&#8217;s theme from the lunch-time news reading appears to be related to automobiles: A List for Click and Clack. Sent to me by a co-worker: The top five reasons cars break down. This is of particular interest because we keep getting an occasional check engine light on my <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=4483\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-4483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-chum","category-lj-xfer","tag-automobiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}