Police rescued a woman Friday evening by pulling her from her car moments before it was crushed by a Long Island Rail Roadpassenger train in Bay Shore, Suffolk police said. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Police later charged the driver of the car, Laurie Foulke, 43, of Islandia, with driving while intoxicated. Multiple emergency calls went out around 5 p.m. about a [...]

IN the game of leapfrog that pits makers of law-enforcement radar guns against developers of radar detectors, there’s a new wrinkle: detectors that link with smartphones to broadcast a speed trap’s location to other drivers. Community reporting of road hazards and accidents is not new to mobile phones, and apps like Trapster and Waze let [...]

On Thursday, General Motors announced an alert system under development that would instruct the Chevy Volt to charge only when a relatively high percentage of renewable energy was available. Being plugged in at those times would further minimize the carbon footprint of the plug-in hybrid. Google plans to test the technology, facilitated by the subscription-based OnStar alert [...]

Does my age affect my ability to drive? Not necessarily. There are no set rules as to when a person may need to give up their driver license. What is important is your ability to continue to drive safely. Two of the most important abilities for safe driving are: to see hazards clearly, and to respond [...]

                      The production version of the Fisker Karma plug-in hybrid visited The New York Times Wednesday evening and was offered for a brief test drive that amounted to a modest victory lap for the long-delayed performance sedan. The Karma finally reached dealers and its first [...]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Even as Google tests its small fleet of self-driving vehicles on California highways, legal scholars and government officials are warning that society has only begun wrestling with the changes that would be required in a system created a century ago to meet the challenge of horseless carriages. What happens if a police officer [...]

Last month, the National Transportation Safety Board called for a nationwide ban on the use of cellphones and other “portable electronic devices” while driving. “It is time for all of us to stand up for safety by turning off electronic devices when driving,” the board’s chairman, Deborah A.P. Hersman, said in a statement. It’s uncertain whether the [...]

If one wants to be technical about it, New Year’s Eve isn’t as bad as one might imagine when it comes to drunken driving. But after midnight, watch out. On New Year’s Day half the fatal crashes involve a driver who was considered to be drunk, which typically means a blood-alcohol content of at least 0.08, according [...]

Hey, yellow-taxi drivers: Stash away your Bluetooth earpiece with your cellphone. A cabby has been fined $350 for driving with an “electronic communication device” in his ear, although there was no evidence that he was actually using it. Cabbies aren’t allowed to be on mobile phones while driving, but the Bluetooth-device ban isn’t as well [...]