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Buses in Britain have a poor image largely due to decades of underinvestment and our car-centric culture. However, neither of these factors had prevented the launch of a luxurious inter-city sleeper bus service in the land of the car. Cabin is a new bus service between Los Angeles and San Francisco that offers its customers their own bunk...

Numbness in your fingers while riding a bicycle can occur if your riding style or seat position results in too much pressure being placed on your hands. According to Imperial College London, handlebar palsy, also referred to as cyclist’s palsy, can be caused by prolonged compression of the ulnar or median nerve. This compression syndrome...

There are signs the death knell is tolling for the internal combustion with the announcement this week that France is to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040. The news will have come as little surprise to car makers, who have long been aware that time is running out for fossil fuels, but perhaps it took the VW emissions scandal for the...

Improved fuel efficiency could reduce HGV emissions by up to 32% according to a study undertaken by T&E. Using its European Union Transport Roadmap Model (EUTRM) tool, T&E has calculated the emissions reduction potential of fuel efficiency technologies for lorries. The environmental lobbying organisation analysed off-the-shelf...

As the theft of bicycles, scooters and motorbikes in urban areas edges towards epidemic proportions, so continues our quest to thwart thieves. Last week we brought you the Biskiple, a fake skip that acts like an urban cloaking device for bicycles, but this idea is altogether smaller and cheaper. Although no less effective....

Cycle.land is a bike-sharing platform connects people with a spare bike to those seeking to rent one for as little as 50p per day. A start-up aiming to give a new lease of life to the millions of unused bicycles across Britain by allowing their owners to share them. If you want to rent out a bike, you simply create a profile, upload a...

"Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." So said H. G.Wells, but who knows what he would have made of the Smog Free Bicycle. No stranger to a dystopian view of humankind, Wells may well have had his optimism dashed. Daan Roosegaarde is the talented engineer behind the Smog Free Project...

So powerful is the Topeak Joe Blow track pump, that it’s as happy inflating your road bike as it is the family car. With a steel barrel and base and connectors for Presta, Schrader and Dunlop valves, the pump can inflate tyres up to a pressure of 160psi. Keeping bicycle tyres properly inflated is the most simple of aspect bike maintenance,...

With an estimated 800 bicycles stolen every single day in Britain, the time has come for a new deterrent against theft; the Biskiple is a flat-pack skip that offers secure storage for bikes. Entirely anonymous in the urban environment, the Biskiple can be erected in less than five minutes on any street or drive. The design is of particular...

The risks associated with an ageing population of motorists is prompting Toyota to develop cars that can nurse their drivers. The car maker fears 'unexpected cardiac events' will increasingly put drivers, passengers and other road users at risk and believes technology can help. Michigan Medicine researcher Kayvan Najarian, Ph.D. says the...