Consumers Polled Through Autoweb.com Recommend Limit to Driving Age.

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 24, 1998--According to visitor poll results collected on Autoweb.com (http://www.autoweb.com), the largest online automotive retailer, people older than 75 should not be allowed to drive.

Site visitors registered their votes on Autoweb.com's newly launched "Blow Your Horn" online polling, which fields a new question every two weeks.

The maximum-driving-age question was the first in the series and received a total of more than 2,000 votes, with 56 percent of the respondents believing there should be a maximum driving age and more than half of those putting the limit at age 75. The driving-age question was posted from Aug. 16 through Sept. 4.

Every two weeks, Autoweb.com asks a new question giving consumers the ability to add their vote along with comments. Some of the age comments included:

-- We should establish mandatory driving tests every five years

after age 60 or require a driving-simulation test for reasoning

and reaction times. -- Maximum-driving-age issues cannot be addressed with "yes" or

"no." Look around at the rage on the road, excessive speed, etc.

Not much of this can be attributed to senior citizens.

Interestingly, 27 percent of participants were younger than 25 and 11 percent were older than 55. More than two-thirds of the participants were male, and of the 776 women participants, 68 percent said there should be a maximum driving age.

The "Blow Your Horn" poll is another addition to the already- resourceful selection of offerings on the Autoweb.com site. In fact, consumers overwhelmingly rated the company as the best online automotive service in a USA Today/Intelliquest poll.

Additionally, Autoweb.com is involved in more than $660 million worth of car sales each month, demonstrating a more significant influence on the automotive market.

"Autoweb.com has tapped into the opinions of a significant percentage of the car-buying public because of the generous traffic on our Web site," said Michele Hickford, vice president of marketing with Autoweb.com. "The results provided through 'Blow Your Horn,' along with our quarterly top-10-models report, provide a real barometer of consumer opinion in the automotive industry."

Background

"Blow Your Horn" is a feature of Autoweb.com enabling consumers to voice their opinions on a number of automotive-related concerns. The questions are changed every two weeks, with results posted (along with selected participant comments) in the Survey Results section of "Blow Your Horn." The surveys are meant to gather habits, thoughts and perceptions from the vast Autoweb.com audience.

"Blow Your Horn" is located on the Autoweb.com home page and invites visitors to select an answer as well as provide demographically oriented information.

Founded in November 1994, Autoweb.com (http://www.autoweb.com) is the largest online automotive retailer, where informed, motivated buyers are put in touch with an exclusive network of top-quality dealers in the United States and Canada. Consumers overwhelmingly named Autoweb.com the best car-buying service on the World Wide Web, according to a recent poll by USA Today/Intelliquest.

The company has strategic partnerships and affiliations with industry leaders such as Yahoo!, State Farm Insurance, Kelley Blue Book, C/NET, Netscape Communications, Lycos, and Car and Driver Online.

For more information, contact Anita Corona at Autoweb.com, 3270 Jay St., Building 6, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054; telephone [phone]; fax [phone]; e-mail [e-mail].