Automaker Nissan is planning technology able to detect whether drivers are sober. The techniques, unveiled in concept form, could reduce driving fatalities to below that of a decade ago, according to the car maker. One system under investigation is a gearshift able to discern the driver's alcohol level, emitting an audio warning if the operator drinks too much. Already, Volvo offers a breathalyser that won't allow the car's ignition to start if alcohol levels are too high.

In an attempt to win a contest jackpot, a Polish bus driver sent nearly 38,000 text messages on his company cell phone, costing the firm about $34,000. It did not come as a surprise when Leszek Wojcik, a bus driver in the northwestern Polish city of Slupsk, was fired from his job after he lost the 100,000-zloty ($36,000) SMS contest that ended June 30.

A Senator in the Philippines is proposing to criminalize the act of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. But in his Senate Bill 83 or the Alcohol and Drug Testing Act, Senate president Manny Villar is proposing a very low penalty of a $22 fine for a first offense. A law must be in place to provide stricter penalties for accidents caused by drunk drivers, Villar said.

A Washington, DC man who purchased a Hummer despite being in an environmentally-conscious neighborhood only owned the vehicle for five days before someone vandalized it. Two masked men reportedly smashed the windows, slashed the tires and scratched into the body of the car a message: "For the Environ. "

A German bus driver in the town of Lindau threatened to throw a 20-year-old woman off the bus because her cleavage was distracting him. "Suddenly he stopped the bus," the woman, known as Debora C said in an interview with the Bild newspaper.