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Category: Aging driver threats

Elderly drivers in the firing line yet again

July 13, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats

IT SEEMS EVERY TIME THERE’S an incident involving an elderly driver, fingers are immediately pointed (usually before the causes have even been evaluated), and calls go out for even more stringent testing. The latest event

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Study shows 95 percent of women drivers have experienced aggressive behaviour

July 7, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

IN A RESULT THAT WILL SURPRISE absolutely nobody, Women’s Worldwide Car of the Year in collaboration with a Czech magazine, has analysed the perceptions of female drivers from 47 countries and found that a staggering

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Jayco faces ACCC action over “misleading representations”

June 24, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Buying advice

PROVING JUST HOW DANGEROUS incautious advertising can be, Australia’s largest manufacturer of caravans and recreational vehicles, Jayco Corporation, is facing legal proceedings brought by the ACCC for making allegedly misleading representations when advertising certain models

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Manufacturers looking for alternative rare earth supplies

June 24, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Electric vehicles, Need to know

CHINA’S CONTROL OF RARE EARTH materials was always going to be a problem. Now, as China tightens controls over the rare-earth materials without which vital magnets simply cannot be built, component manufacturers are scrambling to

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More confusing new road rules

May 20, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

AUSTRALIA’S ROAD RULES CONTINUE to become more and more confusing, less and less consistent. If you’re driving in an unfamiliar state, there’s every chance you’ll unwittingly break a road rule and suffer the financial consequences.

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P-plate drivers don’t face tougher rules, harsher penalties

May 11, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

A BRAZEN SCAM HAS CAUGHT OUT VARIOUS motoring websites and resulted in them disseminating false information about changes to P-plate laws in Australia. It is yet another example of how easily news organisations can be

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JLR pauses shipments to US in response to Trump tariffs

April 6, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Buying advice, Need to know

IN WHAT COULD BE THE FIRST of many companies deciding to cut the US from their export plans, Jaguar Land Rover has paused shipments to the US in response to Trump’s 25 percent tariff on

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What do Trump’s tariffs really mean?

March 30, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Buying advice, Need to know

THERE’S BEEN A REMARKABLE lot of noise about the tariff’s US President Donald Trump is threatening to introduce, but not a lot of rational interpretation of the likely effects. The thing to keep in mind

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A dashcam could be the best investment you ever make

March 28, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Buying advice, Need to know

YOU MAY NOT HAVE THOUGHT about it, but purchasing a dashcam could be the best investment you’ll ever make. Assuming you’re a safe, conscientious driver (you are, aren’t you?), a dashcam helps protect you, as

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NSW drivers question seatbelt fines

February 17, 2025 murrellp@bigpond.com Aging driver threats, Need to know

CAMERAS IN NSW HAVE RAKED in $34 million dollars’ worth of fines for seatbelt offences in the past six months. However, some motorists insist they have been unfairly penalised and are, in fact, innocent of

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