Driving

Should penalty points equal a criminal record?
August 14, 2024

Have you noticed how law-abiding drivers become on roads equipped with average speed cameras? The near-certainty of detection guarantees almost every motorist sticks to the limit. Other roads not so much.

Buses to get mobile roof gardens
August 7, 2013

London’s 7,500 buses consume millions of litres of diesel each month, so given that parked side by side the fleet would occupy 23 football pitches, why not put their roofs to good use and turn them into mobile gardens? Urban green spaces are the lungs of the city; vital for photosynthesis, the process by which plants absorb CO2 and release...

Latest advice for driving in Europe
July 26, 2013

Thousands of British motorists about to embark on driving holidays to continental Europe may be unaware of recent changes to local laws and in particular, the requirement to carry a breathalyzer while in France. Lured by better weather, smoother roads and cheaper petrol, drivers taking a car full of passengers to their holiday destination...

ETA zebra crossing pops up in Parliament
November 14, 2012

A pop-up zebra crossing designed by the ETA has scooped top honours at the Green Apple Awards, which took place this week at the Palace of Westminster. The pop-up zebra crossing was an example of guerrilla marketing - a low-cost, unconventional, and often localised way of promoting a product or an idea, which in this case was road safety...

A flying car for £2,750
February 18, 2015

While It’s not what futurists of the 1950s had in mind when they imagined flying cars we would all be driving by now, the four-seater aero car special that sold on eBay last week for £2,750 certainly looks like it could take to the skies. The aero car special is based on a decommissioned Beechcraft B55 light aircraft and Daihatsu Hijet...