A vehicle is considered totaled when the insurance company decides that fixing it does not make financial sense compared with what the car was worth before the damage. Texas sets no single percentage that forces an insurer to make that call. The Texas Department of…
Highway hypnosis is a trance-like state that lets you drive for miles while barely registering any of it, even though you're still technically in control of the car. It's easy to shrug off, since nothing about the drive feels wrong while it's happening, but it…
Yes, it is legal to drive barefoot in Texas. No Texas law, and in fact no law in any U.S. state, requires you to wear shoes behind the wheel. The real question is not whether you can, but whether going shoeless could ever come back…
Bodily injury liability insurance in Texas pays for financial losses and intangible harm due to injuries you cause other people in a crash, not your own medical care or vehicle repairs. Every driver in Texas has to carry bodily injury insurance, though the required amount…
In Texas, a child under eight must ride in a car seat or booster seat unless the child is taller than 4 feet 9 inches. A child's height can end the requirement before their 8th birthday does, and one Texas statute covers both seats. That…