The Jalopnik Morning Shift

• Reason #456 for always wearing shoes while driving. Even if you are Britney Spears. [Life Style Extra]
• We don't know if you can call charging people who work for you more for health insurance an "innovative change" to your employee health care plan. [PRNewswire]
• Four Michigan inventions included in a new book...who would have thought two of them would have nothing to do with transportation? [Freep]
• Nissan isn't saying to Renault that they aren't going to be a friend anymore, just maybe that they need a little bit of space. Like space the size of a country or two. [Automotive News Europe]
• Hope springs eternal...first it was that Red Rider BB Gun we wanted for Chanukah...and now, a Dodge Caliber AWD SRT4. One down...does the SRT group want to make it a two-fer? Not yet, but maybe there's still a chance. [CaliberForum]
• Great deal: Ford offers 0-percent financing on Escape Hybrid! Not-so-great small print: Valid only in California and Washington DC. [Automotive News]
• Not Funny Story of the Day: Car veers onto SoCal sidewalk into school group, one teacher dead and eight children injured after in-car lovers quarrel. Said the attorney of the driver, "he feels terrible about what happened and wishes that they never got into her car." We would agree. [ABC News]