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AAA Texas: Drivers Rely Too Heavily on New Vehicle Safety Technologies In Spite of Limitations

By Daniel Armbruster September 26, 2018 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety, Travel

Coppell, TX — More and more, drivers are recognizing the value in having vehicles with advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) like blind spot monitoring systems, forward collision warning and lane keeping assist. However, while many of these technologies are...

AAA Texas: Ride-Hailing Twice the Cost of Car Ownership

By Daniel Armbruster August 21, 2018 Automotive, Gas Prices, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety, Travel

Coppell, TX — Ride-hailing services are a popular and convenient transportation option, but a new AAA analysis shows they are not a cost-effective replacement for vehicle ownership. According to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, the average driver in an urban...

AAA Texas: Extreme Heat Can Push a Car Past Its Limits

By Daniel Armbruster July 17, 2018 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — With a heatwave approaching several areas of Texas this week, AAA Texas wants to remind drivers that summer’s high temperatures can take a toll on everyone – and everything, including your car. Extreme heat can push a car past its limits, and that can...

AAA Texas Offers Free Tipsy Tow Service and Reminds Drivers "Don’t Drive Intoxicated, Don't Drive Intexticated" this Independence Day

By Daniel Armbruster June 29, 2018 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — AAA Texas encourages everyone who is of legal drinking age, and plans to have alcoholic beverages to celebrate Independence Day, to plan ahead. AAA Texas advises those who plan to consume alcohol to designate a non-drinking driver, call for a cab or...

AAA Texas: Tests Reveal Hazards of Worn Tires in Wet Weather

By Daniel Armbruster June 07, 2018 Automotive, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — Afternoon downpours could spell disaster for millions of road trippers this summer, thanks to an unlikely suspect – tires. New research from AAA reveals that driving on relatively worn tires at highway speeds in wet conditions can increase average...

AAA Texas: More than Three Million Texans to Travel for Memorial Day Weekend; Most Since 2005

By Daniel Armbruster May 21, 2018 Travel, Automotive, Gas Prices

Coppell, TX — Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, and Texans will kick off the season by traveling in near-record numbers. According to AAA, 3.4 million Texans and more than 41.5 million Americans will travel this Memorial Day weekend, nearly 5 percent...

AAA Texas: 1-in-5 U.S. Drivers Want an Electric Vehicle

By Daniel Armbruster May 08, 2018 Automotive, Gas Prices, Insurance & Consumer Tips, Travel

Coppell, TX — American appetite for electric vehicles is heating up. A new AAA survey shows that 20 percent or 50 million Americans will likely go electric for their next vehicle purchase, up from 15 percent in 2017. With lower-than-average ownership costs, increased...

AAA Texas: Majority of U.S. Vehicles at Higher-than-Average risk for Breakdown this Summer

By Daniel Armbruster April 17, 2018 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety, Travel

Coppell, TX — As 64 percent of family travelers gear up for a road trip this summer, AAA warns that the majority of U.S. vehicles are at a higher-than-average risk for a breakdown.

AAA Texas: Be Alert and Prepared When Driving in the Rain

By Daniel Armbruster March 27, 2018 Automotive, Transportation and Traffic Safety

Coppell, TX — (Coppell, TX) –As the National Weather Service has placed much of North Texas under a Flash Flood Watch and with rainfall in the forecast today and tomorrow, AAA Texas is reminding drivers about the hazards they may encounter over the next few days...

AAA Texas Advises Premium Fuel is Not Always Worth the Price

By Daniel Armbruster December 13, 2017 Gas Prices, Automotive

Don’t Be Fueled: Premium Not Always Worth the Price AAA tests show premium fuel benefits some vehicles, but comes at a high cost (Coppell, TX)-- According to new research from AAA, premium gasoline offers some benefit to select vehicles, but is becoming...

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