Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
JUST THE OTHER DAY, I was travelling towards a major intersection when an ambulance approached from the opposite direction, sirens wailing and all lights flashing. It was educational to see how the motorists around me
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RECENTLY IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA, a car crashed into a shop on South Road, Edwardstown. Significant damage was done to both the car and the shop, but neither the driver nor anyone else was injured. So
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ONE OF THE THOUGHT-PROVOKING presentations at the International Driverless Cars Conference in Adelaide was made by David Homburg, president of the SA Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and Adelaide-based principal of global design
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A carless future may be closer than you think. FINLAND IS MOVING to make private cars obsolete within 10 years. While there are no plans to ban motor cars, ambitious plans are under way to
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Would you send a worker into a factory without training? Of course not. But most people who drive for work have never been offered driver training. Seventy-two percent of people who drive for work in
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The short answer is: quite possibly, yes. WHILE THE GENERAL CONSENSUS IS that autonomous cars will reduce the road toll, one speaker at the International Driverless Cars Conference raised some potentially disturbing ethical issues. Associate
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THERE IS SO MUCH CONFUSION about the best way to go about fixing the increasingly chaotic road rules, we seriously wonder if the whole system shouldn’t just be dumped so we can start all over
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FOR SOME REASON, police and motoring associations persist in claiming that better driver education only makes teen drivers over-confident and so continue to campaign against it. If we were to apply the same logic to
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A SURVEY BY Queensland law firm Smith’s Lawyers has uncovered that Australia is a nation of distracted drivers, with an alarming number of people citing inattention on the road due to selfies, social media and
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One of the problems with .05 is that not many of us can tell if we’re under, at, or over that limit. The safest method, of course, is not to drive if you’ve had anything
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