Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
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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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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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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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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After years of denial, Australians are embracing diesel-powered cars. But for some buyers, diesel may be a poor choice. Is diesel power right for you? FOR DECADES, AUSTRALIAN CAR BUYERS resisted diesel power in their
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