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Simple exercises improve your ability to drive and stay safe on the roads, especially as you age. ONE OF THE BIGGEST concerns for many people as they get older is how long they will be
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Simple exercises improve your ability to drive and stay safe on the roads, especially as you age. ONE OF THE BIGGEST concerns for many people as they get older is how long they will be
Continue readingTHE WORLD IS ALWAYS CHANGING, and nowhere more so than on our roads. Many drivers who first earned their driver‘s licence in their teens have been driving for decades. In that time, car technology, traffic
Continue readingLIKE EVERYTHING connected with aging, diminishing skills happen slowly and over time. Although there are natural changes that may occur in our brains and to our bodies as we age, the question of when it
Continue readingONE OF THE BIGGEST concerns for many people as they get older is how long they will be able to maintain their independence by being allowed to continue to drive. Increasingly, authorities are looking at
Continue readingA DRIVER WHO CAN’T SEE what’s happening is clearly a risk to all road users. And yet, authorities have shown little interest in testing drivers’ eyesight at regular intervals. In Britain, as in Australia, eyesight
Continue readingA SURVEY OF 1000 British motorists (and sure to yield similar results if held in Australia) has highlighted a worrying lack of knowledge when it comes to car maintenance, warning lights and habits. The survey
Continue readingTHERE’S BEEN LOTS OF TALK lately about motorists showing proper consideration for cyclists, but another hazard is often overlooked. Mobility scooters offer a new freedom for many people, but they can however pose challenges for
Continue readingWHEN A CAR MEETS A TRAIN the result is usually “train 1, car 0”. Yet it is surprising how few people understand the basic rules to be followed at a level crossing. Even worse, one
Continue readingTHE FAD FOR DRIVING with fog lights on under any conditions has become almost endemic, but drivers make a number of equally annoying decisions about when and how to use the lights on their cars.
Continue readingTouted as being a major step to reducing driver distraction, it appears some new in-car voice control systems are actually making the problem worse. Research conducted by the US AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has
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