Driving

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...

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...

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...

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...

Google and Apple do a good job of stealing driverless car headlines, but rather more quietly a British company will next week test its own autonomous car on embark on a 3,500-mile trans-American road trip. On March 22, Delphi Automotive will demonstrate its driverless car on a journey between Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco to New York...