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A small and stylish-looking electric motor that clips to any bicycle in seconds aims to revolutionise the electric bike market. Most conversion kits available currently weigh in at 10-15kg and require a toolbox and some skills in electronics and mechanics to install them. According to the designers of the Rubbee, most electric bike...

Road danger reduction is the third rail of of politics - a live wire ready to fry any politician brave enough to touch it. How else would we have found ourselves here? A driver parking their car last year, and travelling at an estimated 5mph, not only managed to collide with a woman, but continued driving until the car had passed over her...

How much do you know about your car insurance provider? Are they attentive - perhaps friendly? Do they entice you with offers such as free car breakdown cover? With a lucrative pool of 30 million cars requiring insurance it’s likely they do, but have you stopped to consider how some insurers are able to keep premiums low and sales...

Bicycles don't need indicators or brake lights (although on London's super-busy cycle superhighways, the latter might be useful for cyclists to signal between themselves) but neither of these features are the best thing about the Magnic Microlight. They claim to be the world's first contactless rim dynamos that work (non-magnetic) aluminium...

As a driver, it's easy to feel a sense of entitlement over the road space outside one's home, but what value should be placed upon it? The pressure on parking space is most acute in large cities, despite these areas housing the highest proportion of people without access to a car. In common with other boroughs in London, Islington is...

The explosive rise in online shopping has flooded our streets with delivery vans. Nothing wrong with that you might think. After all, home deliveries are convenient for many and replace a large number of car shopping trips with a smaller number undertaken by professional drivers. Except that they aren't entirely professional. In fact, in...

Do you seem to collect bike lights, but lose the brackets? No problem - thingumy is a clever strap made from upcycled inner tubes that allows you to strap front lights of any size to the back of your hand and rear lights to your ankle. thingumy is adjustable so you can strap pretty much any bike light or small torch to the back of your...

Could television inspire a programme of road danger reduction? We’ve lost count of the number of times David Attenborough’s Blue Planet has been mentioned in parliament since it highlighted catastrophic effects being wreaked upon our oceans by plastic waste. Whatever you make of Theresa May’s speech this week in which she said we should aim...

The French government looks likely to strip motorists of their driving licences when they are caught using their mobile phones at the wheel. The plan forms part of a range of new measures aimed at reducing road danger including a cut in speed limit on country roads to 80km/h. Driver's caught using a mobile look likely to face a three-month...

The threat from pavement parking and terror attacks involving cars could be dramatically reduced by a simple new device installed along kerbs that quickly punctures tyres. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0moP21omQXc&feature=youtu.be Catclaw is the size of half a small orange and is designed to be installed in its thousands along...