Car advice for people whose age and IQ are both over 50.
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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ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS on our roads, and increasingly one of the most common, is being tailgated by a following motorist. Tailgating (or travelling too close to the car in front) is one of
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A TWO-YEAR EXPERIMENT by the Danish Road Directorate shows accidents fell on single-carriageway rural roads and motorways where the speed limit was raised. When the speed limit on some stretches of two-way rural roads was
Continue readingCyclist deaths and injuries continue to increase on Australian roads, unlike the rest of the world where they are reducing. What are we doing wrong? WHILE THE REST OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD reports falls in
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