Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
AN OFFER OF RIGHT OF REPLY to our story yesterday (read it here) from seniordriveraus to Scott Charlton, the CEO of Transurban, elicited a quick response. The company’s very personable Complaints Manager, Thanh Ho, repeatedly
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IT SEEMS ABSOLUTELY nobody and no website is safe from scammers, and it’s getting harder and harder to tell the scams from the genuine communications. Recently, we were planning a trip to Melbourne. We’d be
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MODERN TECHNOLOGY IS INCREASING exponentially, but it isn’t all good. The tendency for power windows to trap people in submerged cars has been extensively reported, and an example during the recent floods demonstrates this dramatically.
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IT PROBABLY FAIR TO SAY that not many over-50s ride e-scooters. If they did, they’d probably show more consideration for others by not misusing them, and not dumping them wherever and whenever they step away
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IT SEEMS TO US that EV buyer education is woefully inadequate. Now there’s another issue that EV owners should be aware of (and from what we can tell, most of them aren’t). Electric vehicles (including
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IT SHOULDN’T COME AS a surprise that EVs are much cheaper to service than their equivalent internal combustion siblings. A study in the UK by Fleet Assist has released servicing and maintenance trends for Battery
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THERE ARE MANY ISSUES facing the implementation of electric vehicles, not least of which is the lack of infrastructure. The simple fact is that we have failed to adequately plan for and prepare for the
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Bill Buys reports that a massive fire at an EV parking lot in India is another headache for the industry ABOUT 100 vehicles were gutted by a massive fire at an EV parking facility in
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BEING FOLLOWED TOO CLOSELY BY other drivers is the behaviour that distracts motorists most on the roads, latest research reveals, and as we all know, driver distraction is the major cause of crashes. A survey
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A RECENT BLITZ IN QUEENSLAND has nabbed tens of thousands of drivers not wearing their seatbelts (or not wearing them correctly, which incurs the same fine). It’s hard to comprehend why people would so needlessly
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