Finland moves to make the car obsolete.
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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Most people who drive for work have never been offered driver training.
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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Will a driverless car deliberately try to kill you?
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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We all know drug-addled drivers should be off the roads, but what’s the best way to do it?
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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When will the message get through? Driver education reduces teen crash rates.
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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Survey shows Aussie drivers are too easily distracted.
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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How many drinks is too many?
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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Do we expect too much of car companies?
THIS WEEK, I HAVE had some problems with a couple of things I own, and these little niggles got me to wondering if our expectations of car companies may be higher than we apply to
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Do you really need to change your timing belt by the book?
Replacement of a timing belt is quite an expensive operation, and many owners put it off for as long as possible. It can be false economy. Timing belts began to replace chains in the late
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Do pushbike helmets save lives?
SOUNDS LIKE A NO-BRAINER, but a recent study by Canadian health experts suggests bike helmet legislation has little effect on cyclist safety. But before we rush to discard our Styrofoam and plastic headwear, as usual
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